I absolutely love Game of Thrones! But unfortunately its the end of another season :( how sad. Anyway, in the spirit of things I thought I would my post Dragon eggs that I made for Easter this year. This idea came from the amazing Elise from My Cupcake Addiction who also loves Game of Thrones. I get a lot of my ideas and inspiration from My Cupcake Addiction through following her Blog and subscribing to her Youtube channel. She releases 3 videos a week, they are all free and best of all she is Aussie! So it makes it so much easier to source the same ingredients and equipment that she uses and recommends! So I highly encourage you to check it out :)
Dragon scales (aka fondant making)
So I started by making the fondant. This was a recipe from My Cupcake Addiction and I was really keen to try this as firstly, I had never made my own fondant before, but secondly it was made from marshmallows, so it wasn't quite as sweet as normal store bought fondant. You can find the recipe and a video tutorial on how to make it here. It was quite a simple and easy recipe to follow and is ready to use within 24hrs.
Step 1: Melt the marshmallows
Step 2: Add the icing sugar
Step 3: Knead together. I don't have a pic for this one as my hands were covered in marshmallow and icing sugar!
Step 4: Wrap twice and leave for 12 - 48 hrs
The Eggs
So for the eggs, you can use white chocolate eggs e.g Dream, but as these were gifts for family, I knew they weren't too keen on white chocolate so I went with normal milk chocolate. You start by cutting a circle piece of the fondant for your base, stick it on to your egg, using a tiny bit of water. Then start cutting your dragon scales with a small leaf cutter, but turned upside down e.g using the round side not the spiky side. Beware: there are lots of scales to cut! Once done start sticking them onto the egg, going around the bottom, then moving up and going around again.
My workbench
First layer
I tried to overlap mine a bit more due to the brown colour of the chocolate egg peeping through, with a white chocolate, this wouldn't matter as much.
'Scaling' the eggs
While the fondant is still relatively fresh, spray your colour on. I just used basic Wilton colours in red, green and gold. There wasn't many other brands or options to choose from at the shops unfortunately, but never mind, it still worked well. If your doing the spraying inside, put down lots of newspaper, just to make sure you don't end up changing the colour of your kitchen décor whilst your spraying your eggs!
Spraying the eggs
Let them dry, then wrap in alfoil and store until you are ready to give them on as gifts.
The finished project!
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