Name: Chinese Dragon
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, softened; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted; gold and red edible glitter; 5-10 ml/1-2 tsp lemon juice; writing icing, black, red; gel or paste food colouring, yellow, red; 75 g/3 oz/⅔ cup self-raising (self-rising) flour; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; 450 g/1 lb ready-to-roll fondant icing, white; 50 g/2 oz/½ cup ground almonds; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp almond extract; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; finely grated rind of 1 lemon; 15-30 ml/1-2 tbsp lemon juice

Preparation info

Makes
12
cupcakes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cupcakes for Kids

By Rosie Anness and Cortina Butler

Published 2014

About

Almond and lemon cupcakes provide an appropriately Chinese flavour for this rather friendly dragon. Bake the cakes in shiny red or gold cupcake cases to add to the Chinese effect. Ten of the cakes form the body of the dragon with colourful scales, one cake has the dragon’s head and the other his tail. You can easily make the dragon bigger by extending the dragon’s body with more cupcakes.