“It isn’t a story without telling if there aren’t any dragons.” – J.R.R. Tolkien 🐉
I love how this little dragon cake turned out for our son’s 18th birthday this past June! I’m planning to share more pictures from his party soon. In the meantime you can find my Instagram Reel of this cake here.
Dragon & Trees Sunset Cake
To make the dragon for the little three layer six inch cake, I found an image of a similar cake online, printed out a picture of the dragon and then piped black candy melts onto parchment paper, making sure it was thick enough to not break apart once it hardened. I have made lots of different cake topped this way using clip art and silhouettes.
This drago definitely could have used a little more thickness for where the dragon’s wings connected to the body! 😉
To frost the cake I just used some red frosting and yellow frosting and then combined a bit of the two, while circling around the cake with the end of a frosting spatula, to create the orange frosting and complete the sunset look.
I used chocolate frosting to pipe on some simple trees around part of the cake.
Lonely Mountain Birthday Cake
The other Tolkien themed candy melt cake toppers were options to go on top of a Cold Stone ice cream cake we picked up the day of the party— because Tolkien themed birthdays (especially 18th ones) sometimes call for second cakes. For those I used black candy melts for the text and mountain, and red for the dragons. I then covered it all with white candy melts for the background.
The first was “The Lonely Mountain” with a red dragon flying overhead inspired by the image on a map of Middle-Earth and the second was the quote, “Never laugh at live dragons.”
I always get nervous around this stage thinking the cake will be a flop!
NOTE: If you are trying to copy text, make sure to flip your image horizontally since the bottom of the candy melt design becomes the front when it hardens and you flip it over. To mirror an image in Word, click on the image, go to the Picture Format tab, click Rotate, and then select Flip Horizontal.
I started getting extra tired and sloppy finishing up the last candy melt option with all the text, but the birthday boy really loved how it all turned out!
Our 8 year old kept reminding me that “It doesn’t have to be perfect!”
The Lonely Mountain cake topper ended up working out great on the Cold Stone cake we picked up.
More dragon themed birthday pictures coming soon!
“Never Laugh at Live Dragons.” – J.R.R. Tolkien 🐉
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