Flying Toothless

Hiccup is still gonna need some time to look like himself and some serious cosmetic surgery (well actually just some extra time and practice), but at least I got Toothless flying this time. I was in a hurry and I am now kind of regretting putting Hiccup up there, but hey it is what it is and I will probably look at this some time in the future and hopefully consider it just a stepping stone.

For the pastel sky (which turned out great, but frankly does not even show now on these photos ... sad face) I first marbled some white and dark blue fondant. I then opted for the Sweetness and bite tutorial for the water-colouring, just because it uses dusts instead of liquid colour. My cakes tend to take forever to dry if I paint on them and I am not entirely sure why. Maybe it just always takes so long and I just didn't notice this when others wrote about it on their blogs. Given that our tastes are a bit different from American ones and I never use buttercream or ganache as filling and usually opt for more perishable fillings, I also refrigerate my cakes from start to finish, which I am sure is one of the reasons for long drying times. You really do not need a whole bunch of kids touching wet food colour :) Small kids' birthdays are messy enough as it is, so dusts it was.

My choice turned out to be as simple as it promised and I just dusted the cake with white dust food colour (edible one of course) using a big powder brush, applying more in some spots and just blending it out in horizontal strokes.