Dragon Castle Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Birthday cakes are one of my favorite things to make and this castle cake with a dragon cake topper is the perfect sort of cake to make for the little king or queen's birthday.

Learn how to make a dragon cake topper with posable wings, isomalt dragon fire, all the little details on the castle, how to hand-letter fancy monograms and more!

1:04:39 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• Learn how to create a stylized dragon cake topper with posable wings
• How to make isomalt dragon fire
• Learn how to make hand-lettered castle flags and banners
• How to cover a large double barrel cake
• Liz Marek's simple technique to make realistic stone texture

Tutorial Chapters

1. Making the dragon armature 0:10
2. Building up dragon 4:55
3. Adding teeth to jaws 7:45
4. Painting the dragon wings 9:07
5. Prepping the cakes 14:53
6. Stacking double barrel 17:01
7. Making dragon fire 19:50
8. Adding jaws to dragon head 21:05
9. Roughing out the dragon head 23:07
10. Roughing out the body 23:45
11. Making dragon legs 24:27
12. Adding texture to dragon 27:30
13. Adding dragon horns 28:15
14. Attaching wings to body 29:03
15. Making dragon spines 31:22
16. Covering cake board 32:50
17. Coloring castle brick 34:27
18. Paneling the double barrel 37:28
19. Paneling the towers 41:57
20. Making the front gate 46:35
21. Adding turrets 47:54
22. Finishing the front gate 51:03
23. Making flags 55:00
24. Airbrushing 59:09
25. Finishing fire 1:00:24

Sculpted Dragon Castle Cake Tutorial

Fly you fools! I made this cake for my friend's son's birthday and he absolutely loved it. The isomalt fire adds a level of detail that really makes the dragon pop off the cake without too much difficulty. I know many cakers are scared of working with isomalt, but this technique is a good entry point.