The Dragon Cake I made for my 4 year old’s birthday was so popular, that I decided I’d better do a tutorial. Note, I am not a professional baker, and i’m sure there are things I’ve gotten ‘wrong’.. but that’s one reason i did this tutorial to show that you don’t have to be a professional to attempt something cool!

PS: You guys better appreciate this! I actually didn’t do the best job of documenting my process while making the Dragon Cake, so I took some of the leftovers and made a mini version just so I could get some good…

For The Boy’s “Dragon Party”, we needed favors. I considered multiple ideas (see end of post) but decided to try to make some. The Boy wanted some sort of dress up thing, and these modified capes were very popular with the party-goers, and were perfect for a take home favor.

Now, it wasn’t a small party (not only his friends from preschool, but our friends with kids were there), so I initially made 20 of these. Hence they are NOT high quality heirloom construction. You could easily modify these instructions (adding hems and what not) to make these more of a…

So, for Illustration Friday, this Dragon is craving some Dragon Cake! I promise I’ll get the tutorial up on making the Dragon Cake this week, but I figured I’d better get on those Thank You notes first. Just click through to Flickr to download him and use him for your own thank-you notes — He’s CC Licensed for personal use. He also matches the invitation graphic.

OR, you can snag both the invite and thank you notes, ready for printing, as a PDF!

nancy dorsner 2009 – some rights reserved (cc licensed personal use only please — if you use him, do leave a…

(Thanks Neatorama, Craftzine, and others for the link love! .. The Thank You notes and Invites are now available for download here. 6/11: Full blown Tutorial is on making the cake is Posted!! -Dot)

Here it is! Pretty darn close to my vision (he does look like the Party Invite, right?), and wow! LOVE it. The “How To” will be coming next week (edit: it’s here!), when I have time to do a good writeup… Right now I’m just covered in cake batter and icing!

I ‘live blogged’ my baking day today at Twitter, so if you’re interested in some of the interim stuff, and can’t…

Apparently I’ve bitten off more than I can chew by thinking I could do everything to get ready for The Boy’s party this weekend, handle “Real Life”, AND actually blog about it!

So, I think the tutorial on how to make the Dragon-Wings will have to wait until next week. I made 20(!!) of them, so needless to say, this is a REALLY quick and dirty design.

Today I bake cakes. The plan is a Dragon Cake for the party, plus extra chocolate ‘dragon’s egg’ cupcakes (because The Boy wants chocolate).

I’ll be experimenting with marshmallow fondant for covering the dragon, so…

More to come on this, including the tutorial, once I finish making a bunch of these for The Boy’s Dragon themed birthday party!

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The Dragon graphic on a Party Invitation, and the new matching Thank You Note are now available for download here. Hope you Enjoy!

Good Morning… This friday I present to you a slightly cracked dragon. He’s a little silly isn’t he? Almost Suess-ian my husband thought. (PS- See him in CAKE FORM here!)

copyright nancy dorsner, 2009.
Pen, scanned into Illustrator (which I’m trying to learn!)

He’s going to be the graphic for The Boy’s dragon themed birthday invitation.
You’re welcome to snag him and use him (Creative Commons licensed, personal use) for a graphic for your own party invitations!

Remember last year’s Robot Party Invitations? They…