Baby Dragon topsy turvy cake -TOPSY14F
An all-cake, 3-tiers topsy-turvy cake to celebrate a 1 year old's birthday.
Cake adorned with 3 all-fondant baby dragons, as birthday boy was born the year of the dragon (Chinese zodiac calendar)
Each tier is made of carved cakes, crumbcoated using ganache and then covered with fondant.
Upper cake tier sits on a flat base made by carving the lower tier, and setting the base with dowels for weight support.
Main challenge:
1. The 2nd dragon was latched to the 2nd tier ledge i.e. the weakest section of the cake (weakened due to carving). To ensure the weight of the solid fondant dragon does not drag down/collapse the ledge, the 2nd tier was made with double layers of fondant (2nd layer applied after first layer has dried) and the dragon is also supported by long thin satay sticks that extends to the center of the tier.
Decorations made.of fondant. Dragon wings made using gumpaste.
Total cake height approx 20 inches.
Comment
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Comment by Katy Nott on December 11, 2014 at 2:07pm
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congrats to you!
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Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on December 11, 2014 at 9:03am
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congratulations way to go .
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Comment by Laily Arifin on December 11, 2014 at 8:31am
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Omg, thanks so much to all of you for such lovely comments, truly made my day :D
Didn't expect to place actually, so lucky this time. I'm most happy many of you loved the baby dragons. Here's hoping to getting more clients with more interesting design requests ;)
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I would have given you first place but I am happy that you placed.......just love them dragons
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cute as can be - the dragons are adorable
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lovely
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Comment by Christine Harrison on December 2, 2014 at 2:44pm
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I really liked this cake well done!
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Love the Dragons
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Nice job to detail. This one is a winner in my book
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Comment by Steve Chlupsa on November 21, 2014 at 11:11am
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STILL my fave lol.....
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