Dragon Cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 6 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   We take everything you need for the sponge cake and divide the ingredients into two equal parts. You need to bake two round biscuits.

2. STEP 2

   

   Mix the dough. Beat the butter with simple and vanilla sugar until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then add the eggs one at a time. Then add flour with baking powder and pour in milk. Add all the ingredients without stopping whisking. Continue beating until fluffy and homogeneous, about 5-10 minutes.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add crushed chocolate and mix the dough with chocolate well with a spatula.

4. STEP 4

   

   Transfer the dough to a parchment-lined pan.

5. STEP 5

   

   Bake the biscuit until ready in an oven preheated to 170 degrees. Preparing the second sponge cake. Ready-made biscuits must be cooled to room temperature.

6. STEP 6

   

   Meanwhile, whip the cream. Melt caramel candies, preferably like toffees or cows, in a small amount of water; you can mix them with condensed milk in the microwave and gradually add them to the churned butter. When the cream is churned, add cognac and beat for another two minutes.

7. STEP 7

   

   Cut one biscuit according to the template.

8. STEP 8

   

   We divide the second by diameter into two parts.

9. STEP 9

   

   Coat the halves with cream.

10. STEP 10

    

    Assembling the dragon's body.

11. STEP 11

    

    We take those parts for the head and neck. And cut off a little from the tail, as in the photo, maybe even less.

12. STEP 12

    

    We lay out the neck and head, raising it slightly with a triangle cut from the tail.

13. STEP 13

    

    Install the front legs.

14. STEP 14

    

    We assemble the hind legs and install them in place.

15. STEP 15

    

    We install the tail in two parts. The corners of the neck and head must be cut before assembly.

16. STEP 16

    

    We collect the entire dragon using cream and coat it on all sides with cream. Let it soak and the cream harden a little in a cool place.

17. STEP 17

    

    Meanwhile, on parchment paper we make dragon crest elements from melted chocolate. We draw with snake-like movements, layer by layer, figures as in the photo. Let the chocolate harden in the refrigerator.

18. STEP 18

    

    Then apply melted chocolate on the flat side of half of the comb horn and let it harden in the refrigerator. Meanwhile, for decoration, mix two colors of cream.

19. STEP 19

    

    Using the grass nozzle, apply the cream to the dragon's scales.

20. STEP 20

    

    At the bottom there is one color, at the top another. We make eyes from marshmallow and chocolate. We make nostrils out of chocolate.

21. STEP 21

    

    We install all decorative elements in their places. After which the cake is ready. We delight our storytellers and fairy-tale characters with this fantastic cake!

Comments on the recipe

elena D

23.09.2023

4.9

So that such a cute Dragon does not feel sad, I will also offer a recipe for Unicorn cake!

Kukakot

23.09.2023

4.7

Thanks for the recipe! Everything turned out just fine. Both children and adults were delighted! True, the preparation took me not 6 hours, but probably a day, but I’m a beginner and all my pastry experience is a couple of charlottes in a slow cooker. By the way, the test cake in the oven sank and was not baked, but in the slow cooker everything was baked perfectly, only it took a long time, I have a standard baking program of 1 hour, but it took approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, we checked the readiness with a skewer.

Marina

23.09.2023

4.6

I still don’t understand how to make cream!))))

Skazka

23.09.2023

4.5

Bravo!