Sunday
Jan252009
Sunday Sweets: Cutey-Patootey Dragon Babes
January 25, 2009 I think the designers of today's baby dragon cakes need to get into stuffed-animal design. And then send me free samples. [nodding earnestly]
Amber D. found these two from The Cake Fairy:
Everyone together now: Awwwww.
The wings! The itty-bitty wings! [swoons]Check out the floppy ears on this guy:
Those scales must have taken forever! They look great, though. Shanna R. found him on Courtney's Cakes Flickr stream.Here's one from The London Cake Company, found by Brian & Melissa W.:
This was for little Joseph's SECOND birthday?!? Dang, I really missed out during my childhood. (And adulthood, come to think of it...)
And lastly, Kate J. found some of the most adorable figure sculpting I've seen:
I love the simple-yet-ingenious "bushes", and the knight and princess are just spot-on perfect. Great stuff.
Found on Manray3's Flickr stream. I've been told this may be from The Cake Shop in the Covered Market of Oxford, England.
Reader Comments (81)
I LOVE the teeny tiny little wings. Adorable.
Wow... Why didn't I get cakes like these when I was a kid?
The artistry of these (and the previous several Sunday Sweets) just blows me away.
-Myc (long-time devoted lurker)
How lovely, I'm defiantly going to try and steal this idea!
I <3 the pink one! The floppy eared dragon reminds me of my rottweiler.
Wow - those are amazing! My first thought when I see creations like these is to wonder how much they cost. I mean for the good stuff, it can't be cheap, right? :)
Amazingly adorable. I love any dragons.
@kansaswolf:
Share your recipe?
Never heard of cream cheese fondant, but would like to try.
Anything with creamcheese is good.
I have wanted to try to make a fondant cake, but don't want to create something that tastes nasty.
Alex
Sendingtheclowns said:
Are there any girl dragons, or are they always thought of as males?
I just realized that I'd never thought about this before.
=^??^=
Have you seriously never heard of the Inheritance Chronicles? What kind of cave have you been hiding in if you do NOT know about Eragon and Saphira? Google "Alagaesia" and educate yourself you troglodyte!
Anon at 1/26 1:28 a.m.:
Something tells me you might want to doublecheck any messages you write on the cake.
;-)
Wow, the artistry is just amazing! Though, lol, I've just got to say the following about the last one...
"Just like man. Sitting down on the job."
:D
Holly
At first glance, the 1st, 2nd and 4th dragon cakes looked to me like they might be mutant cousins of the Hungry Hungry Hippos from Chernobyl. Something about the shape of their heads and faces...
On second glance, though, the 1st, 2nd and 4th cakes are all undeniably cute, and all five cakes have been beautifully crafted.
But by crikey, no matter how hard I try, I just can't get the image of mutant Hungry Hungry Hippos from Chernobyl out of my head!!!
Maybe I have a twisted mind...
At first glance, the 1st, 2nd and 4th dragon cakes looked to me like they might be mutant cousins of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HPI_HT6yjo" REL="nofollow">Hungry Hungry Hippos from Chernobyl. Something about the shape of their heads and faces...
On second glance, though, the 1st, 2nd and 4th cakes are all undeniably cute, and all five cakes have been beautifully crafted.
But by crikey, no matter how hard I try, I just can't get the image of mutant Hungry Hungry Hippos from Chernobyl out of my head!!!
Maybe I have a twisted mind...
It looks like that last cake DID come from the Covered Market in Oxford. I used to love sitting at the little cafe across the way and looking at all the cute things they had in their cases.
I remember a particular run on Pokemon characters about 3 1/2 years ago while I lived there, but, alas, didn't take any pictures.
Oh, and don't get me started on the Harry Potter stuff. Cupcakes and candies and cakes decorated with every character imaginable from the series!
So cute you!I wonder how whoever got these cakes ate them:D The one hatching is my favorite
Aww! What adorable cakes!
Too cute-I actually made the hatching baby dragon (not the one here, but same design from a Debbie Brown book) for my nephew's first birthday. He loved it-at least that's how I choose to interpret his removal of one of the ears and a nostril before it was served ;)
Dragon on hind haunches, rubbing belly...
I want one - I need one!
MONKEYBIZ23 said...
Have you seriously never heard of the Inheritance Chronicles? What kind of cave have you been hiding in if you do NOT know about Eragon and Saphira? Google "Alagaesia" and educate yourself you troglodyte!
Oopsie!
I am SO out of touch!
No, I have, unbelievably, never heard of that/those story/stories.
Eragon? Sounds like a laundry detergent.
Saphira? Some kind of synthetic blue gem? Cheesy porn star? Phone-a-psychic operator?
Alagaesia? Yikes--is there an ointment for that?
In all fairness, I DID Google it, and, welllll....what can I say?
Just not my cuppa Joe.
I'm not really into the Goth, "young-adult fantasy"
(reviewer's words, not mine), cult-ish stuff.
I'm too old for THAT much fun--and with a memory like mine, I'd never be able to get the characters straight, anyway...all those weird names!
It's okay. When you get to be my age, it's acceptable to be completely, utterly, in-the-dark uncool. I do THAT really well!
Back to my cave, now! :)
Hey Sendingtheclowns,
If it makes you feel any better, I have actually read the books MANY times and I didn't even know they were called the Inheritance Chronicles. Ah well. Any room in your cave?
john
ps. It's better to be a troglodyte than a troll, I always say.
cute cute cute!
They are really cute. My personal favorite would be that green dragon one with the floppy ears. I could never bring myself to eat any of them
Hmm. Why were these uploaded to Cake Wrecks? I'd say that these are highly successful!
The talent some people have never ceases to amaze me- very cute!
TO: john (the hubby of Jen),
Aw, thanks for the morale support! It's okay-I don't mind being out of the loop; I've always been one to march to the beat of a different banjo player. I'm actually quite cozy in my cave. There, I can be blissfully *in the dark* about such matters as, f'rinstance, The Inheritance of Chronic knownothingness. Heh heh...
(So, I guess it's safe to assume that there ARE girl dragons... :P)
As for trolls and troglodytes-- half of one and six dozen of the other, I always say! =^~~^=
CUUUUUUTTTTEEEEE!!!!
that is actually really good! i want to eat them all.
I have traumatic memories of that cake from the Covered Market because my son saw it in their window and wanted me to make him one just like it for his birthday. Fortunately he eventually settled for a liberal interpretation of "just like it".
And the first one (the just-hatched baby dragon) is from Debbie Brown's Magical Cakes, by the way.
The princess looks so much like my '80 Cabbage patch kid. Miniaturized.
They are so well done! It was a shock to find something on cake wrecks that didn't make me afraid of ordering a cake from a bakery. Thank you for restoring a little of my faith in decorators.
Absolutely precious!!! I want one of each, please!
for the lack of something better to say: OOOOO MMMMM GGGGG !!!!! How stinking CUTE!!!! Forget the kid - I want one for *my* birthday!
Those are amazing, thats what you call cake art. Well done xx