My girlfriend and I made a Charizard cake for our friend!

I was so stoked when I asked my friend’s wife for cake ideas and she said he seemed pretty set on a Chrizard cake. He loved it, too - after we presented it to him, he even fetched his Charizard hat and posed with the cake!

My girlfriend did an amazing job making the chocolate Charizard! The look is accomplished by taking the image you want to recreate (printing usually works best, but since I don’t currently have a printer, she traced the image from a computer monitor), placing a layer of wax paper over it, then melting down chocolate in different colours and tracing the image. It’s usually best to do the outline first, then details (like highlights, shadows, eyes, claws), and then filling in the rest of the colours. The chocolate hardens, and the result is a mirror version of your final version (though it’s often good to reinforce it by adding more chocolate to make it sturdier). Then you flip it and place the image onto your cake!



Her chocolate-tracing skills are honestly killer, and it turns out her icing handwriting is also way nicer than mine! Also, her icing is to die for. Honestly, all I did on this cake was bake and ice it - she’s going to put me out of a job soon!

