Hello, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today I’m gonna do something really, really special, I’m gonna do a Game of Thrones
cake in celebration of the second season!
I’m going to make the chest with the 3 dragon eggs that Daenerys Targaryen
gets for her wedding. Yay dragons!
I pre-baked 3 rectangular cakes and I cut them to size.
I traced the shape of what I wanted the chest to look like into each of them,
and then I stacked the layers.
The third cake that goes on the top, I cut out the entire center, so that it
will look like the top of the chest is open.
Between frosting each section of the cake, you’ll want to stick the cake into
the freezer for about 10 minutes, so it’s had plenty of time to cool.
Once all of your cakes are cut out and frozen, it’s time to frost!
I’m using a soft, vanilla buttercream frosting. And we’re gonna want to avoid
using any whipped frostings, because we’re gonna overlay fondant on top.
And you want the rich and creamy frostings, because this acts as the glue
that we put the fondant on.
The last layer is gonna be the top of the chest, so I’m putting down the glue
before we put the top of the chest on. After I'm done frosting this, I’m
gonna place this cake that I hollowed out, onto the top.
To look like an open chest!
Very important thing to do, is you want to make sure that this piece
has had a lot of time to freeze! I let it freeze for probably a couple hours
before I'm doing this. We've stuck the frosting on and now you’re just gonna pick it up, and because
it’s so frozen, it just stays perfectly together.
Once you’ve positioned the top part, on there, we are gonna frost the entire cake.
This is gonna take awhile, so just take your time, and then when we’re done we’re
gonna stick it in the fridge for about 10 minutes to cool.
Once you’re all done frosting, you’re gonna want to put your cake in the
freezer for about 10 minutes, so it gets really hard before you put fondant on.
To make the accent pieces that are on the chest, what I did is I just took little
cutouts of the different shapes. The chest doesn’t look identical to what’s in
the series, but it’s really similar. And then, put your little shape on the plate.
And then I took this, it’s gold glaze, and it’s made to put on top of fondant,
and a paintbrush, and I painted each piece. Just remember, sometimes they’ll
take 2 coats, you’ll want to wait 30 minutes in between coating.
Alright, so to paint it on here, you just want to mix first, stir, stir, stir!
And then paint it on, oh it looks like a little Tri-Force!
And just paint, paint paint!
And this is what they’ll start to look like, and you're gonna want to let them dry for
about a 1/2 hour. And they’re pretty cool, and then we’re
gonna do the same thing with silver.
All this crazy mess down here, this is all the accent pieces that I cut out
last night, and what I’m gonna do now is I'm gonna kind of put them together before
I put them on the cake.
And so you’re gonna take your paintbrush again, with a little bit of frosting.
And I’m gonna take out my little silver piece, put a little frosting on it,
like so, so I’m just gonna go ahead and put all of my little silver pieces
on top of the gold. And hopefully, everything will turn out OK!
After you’re done assembling all your little accent pieces,
I did the double layer! Ooooh! They’re all done, we are gonna put sugar candy
balls on here. Now, when I buy them at the store they’re called candy pearls,
and they usually use them on wedding cakes, and these were originally white.
And what I did, is if you look down there, I dyed them kind of this,
marble-y brown, and I used the food coloring dyes light brown and dark brown,
I swirled them together into a little bowl, and then I just kind of mixed all the
little white pearls together, and this is the final product.
So I’m gonna take these little, tweezers!
And I’m gonna take a little ball, and I try to assemble as many of the things
I can off the cake. So like, I’m gonna put this right in the middle.
And this is tricky to do if it was on the cake because I don’t want to be
putting a lot of pressure there.
There we go! Ta-da!
So I’m gonna go through and put on a bunch of these, and I’m also gonna put these
on the cake, because they’re gonna look like little rivets.
Once we’re done with the little pearl balls, we are going to make some dragon eggs!
To make the dragon eggs, what you’re going to want to do, is get candy chocolate,
and these are really easy, you put them in the microwave for about a minute,
on defrost, and pro tip, just figured this out, it’s really easy to put these,
pour the candy into a zip-lock bag, first! Put it in the microwave,
and then just, snip the little tip, and then you fill the melted chocolate into
this tray. And I found this, because it was right around easter time, but
they have these everywhere, at every cake store, and at Michael’s Craft Store.
And you’re gonna fill the melted chocolate, into the molds, and put it
in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
And then when it’s done, it’s just so easy because they just fold and snap.
To get them to stick together like this, da-da! You just put a little bit of
frosting in between, or the leftover melted chocolate.
Once you have your little chocolate egg, first thing we’re gonna do, you can
dip your finger, make sure your hands are clean, and we’re gonna put the frosting
all over the little egg! When you’re done putting frosting all over your egg,
then you’ll put it in the fridge for about 10 minutes, and then we’re gonna
roll out the fondant and make some dragon scales!
The shapes that I’m gonna use to cut out the little scales are gonna be first,
a little heart, and, this little, it looks like a football or something!
And you just cut out a bunch of these! Just kind of eyeball how many you need.
I just make a bunch of ‘em because it’s fun!
After you’ve cut out all your little hearts, you’re just gonna stick ‘em
onto your chocolate frosting egg. We’re gonna start with the ones that look
like little footballs in the back, and keep building them right on top
of each other! I like to work from the bottom up, and you want to layer them
1 layer at a time, so you start and you kind of slowly work up the egg,
you don’t want to make, like, a line and go straight down.
So you’ve started, and we’re gonna use all the little football ones on the bottom,
and now, we’re gonna start adding our little heart scales!
After I finished the green dragon egg, I also made a white dragon egg and
a black dragon egg, and here’s what they look like all done!
These are my dragon eggs! And I really, really, really, really, really like ‘em!
We now have everything we need, and we’re gonna put everything together.
I have the brown fondant to put on the sides of the chest, the accent pieces,
for the chest. The little rivets, in the side and I also, to put inside the chest.
It’s fake sand! It is ground graham cracker, yummy, yummy, yummy!
That we’re gonna put the dragon eggs in, so let’s get started and put this thing together!
I’m so excited!
Ta-da!
Boom! There’s my Game of Thrones cake and I love it!
I love the dragons! I’m really enjoying the second season and I can’t wait!
This season is so good!
Um, thank you for suggesting this, I had so much fun making it, if you have
any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please leave me a comment
and let me know and I will do my best to make it happen!
OK, thanks for watching, bye-bye!