(Click to go to the websites for these cakes)

From the simple:

To the sublime:

Dragon cakes seem to run the whole gamut of cake-building techniques.

Piped butter icing:

Sugarpaste shapes and airbrush: 

Chocolate jigsaw:

or even fruit!

I think my favourites for a balance of ease and looks would probably be the buttercream (love the idea of mixing colours in the piping bag) or cut sugarpaste (or marzipan.. but then I'm addicted to marzipan) shapes layered to make scales and fins. For those of us without an airbrush, I think that marbling the sugarpaste would probably work really well here.

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