Delicious Dragon

My boyfriend is wonderful. He does so much for me and I wanted to make his birthday super special. I love making cakes, but Mike isn't big on eating sweets. I needed to figure out a way to feed him a birthday treat that he would actually be excited about.

We both love reading fantasy novels, so we're kinda into dragons.

This is what I came up with.

It's a cupcake dragon! 

The strawberries were meant to be like scales. Getting them to stay on the butter cream frosting was a little challenging. I made white chocolate flames by painting melted candy onto wax paper. 

The dragon head is sculpted out of rice crispy treats and then covered in white chocolate. The original plan was to paint the head, but instead, I covered it in sprinkles. I thought that was more festive.

Rawr.


Mike thought it was great! So, I deemed it a success in that respect. We only had a small group for the party, so only a few cupcakes got eaten. I thought, oh we'll just eat the rest tomorrow...by the next day the moisture in the strawberries had made the cupcakes kinda slimy and there was mold.

I guess the moral of the story is, if you use fresh fruit eat as much as you can on the first day!