Spyro The Dragon

Thank you to my friend Kelly who thought of my cakes as her daughter Madyson's birthday neared.  Kelly requested a cake with Spyro the dragon.  Yikes!   I had never done a dragon before, but as usually as was up to the challenge.  Hmmmmm..... but how was I going to get the image of Spyro on Mady's cake?  I'll get back to that in a bit.



So Kelly wanted a marble cake to serve over 20 people.  We decided on a 10" two layered, that would end up being almost 5" high.



So here are the ingredients I used for my Marble Cake recipe:

- 2 cups sifted cake flour

- 2 teaspoons baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 1/2 cup butter or margarine

- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

- 1 cup sugar

- 3/4 cup milk

- 3 egg whites 1 1/2 0Z. (1 1/2 sq.) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled

- 2 tablespoons hot water

- 1 tablespoon sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

(found on ifood.tv)



Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.



Cream the butter with extract; gradually add sugar, creaming until fluffy.

Beating only until smooth after each addition, alternately add dry ingredients in fourths and milk in thirds to the creamed mixture.

Beat egg whites until stiff, not dry, peaks are formed.

Fold beaten egg whites gently into batter until thoroughly blended.

Turn one half of the batter into a prepared 8x8x2-inch baking pan.

Lightly, but quickly, stir a mixture of the remaining ingredients into batter in bowl.

Spoon chocolate batter into pan. Gently lift white batter through chocolate until marbled effect is produced.

Spread batter evenly to edges of pan.

Bake at 350°F 40 to 45 minutes, or until cake tests done.



And now let's bring on Spyro the Dragon!

I went online and found a black and white drawing of Spyro.  I taped it to the base of a 9" square pan, and then taped parchment paper on top. 

On top of the parchment paper, I traced Spyro with a mixture of black buttercream icing and piping gel.  I used a #2 tip.  This gave me a nice thin line, but I still applied the lines a little thick.