Ice Dragon Cake

1 box of cake mix

3 cans (16 oz. size) of white icing

1 can of Wilton blue "color mist" food color spray
3 blue colored fruit roll ups

1 bag of yogurt covered pretzels (round shape)
1 pack of bubble yum cotton candy gum (blue color)

1 marshmallow

4 chocolate chips

2 bamboo skewers

This cake I affectionately call "Flurry" was the cake for my daughter's 11th birthday. She is a dragon collector and she wanted an Ice Dragon birthday theme. The cake is very easy to make and takes approximately two hours to assemble once the cakes are cool. The following instructions will also produce a dinosaur cake as long as you skip the wings!

Cook two nine inch round cakes as per the box directions and allow to completely cool on a wire rack before cutting. Remove cakes from baking pans. Slice one of the nine inch rounds in half. Ice one of the pieces and place the other one on top. Place cake (cut side down) on the center of a quarter sheet size piece of cardboard.

For the second cake cute the round as shown in the above diagram. Assemble the cake following the diagram and ice the entire figure. Use the cap of a magic marker to indent icing to look like scales. Then use the color mist icing and lightly spray the entire cake. Cut yogurt pretzels in half and insert down the center of the cake starting at the head and ending at the tail. Cut marshmallow in half and insert one chocolate chip in each side to create eyes and pupils. Place marshmallows on dragon head. insert two more chocolate chips on the front of the dragon's snout to create a nose. Place one whole yogurt pretzel on the front of the snout to create the mouth.

Finishing touches:

-Take one fruit roll up and pinch the end. Using a pair of scissors, slice the other end into strips. Insert pinched end into dragons' mouth and curl the strips to resemble flames or swirls of ice.

-To make wing take a bamboo skewer and wrap one corner of a fruit roll up onto it. Use scissors to cut a wing shape on remaining fruit roll up. Insert skewer into back of dragon...repeat process for second wing.

-To create the ears slice a piece of bubblegum in half and sculpt an ear shape out of each piece. Insert ears behind eyes.

-Create claws by cutting up four more pieces of gum into narrow triangles and insert three slices into each of the dragon's feet.

-Glitter icing can be used to create a snow or glistening effect on claws, spikes, and fire.