How to Train Your Chocolate Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon cakes for Logan and Hunter's birthdays

I had a wonderful time at Grandma and Papa's house as I was able to thoroughly enjoy a relaxed morning assembling these cakes with Hunter and Logan's help.  They did a great job mixing fondant to make rocks and pebbles and I thought Trinity's insistence on the lake, and her use of piping gel to make waves was the perfect touch.

It is in fact, more difficult to train a chocolate dragon than I expected but I am glad I made the effort.  Toothless was very melty to work with but in the end, I thought he looked sweet.  The trouble I had, will not deter me from attempting modeling chocolate again.

Colleen said it had to be chocolate all the way so both cakes were made from Duncan Hines Devil's Food with raspberry chocolate milk to replace the water.  My first homemade chocolate frosting was used for the filling as well as underneath the cliffside fondant, and under the cookie crumbles on the volcano dragon egg nest. 

I lucked out (grossed out) to find the oreo cookies with bright red centers on sale.  I scraped them off to create the lava in the center of the dragon egg nest while the remaining bit of frosting added a nice 'glow' to the lava rocks.  Multicolored fruit leather flowed over the edges.

The shrieks of joy when we finished were enough to melt any Aunt's heart into a puddle of chocolate lava.

Happy Birthday Logan and Hunter!