The World Of Warcraft Deathwing Cake: Meet Its Maker

The Domestic Scientist

The Deathwing cake!

What happens when your encounter the Deathwing in the massively popular role-playing game World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm? It's a dragon that rains flaming death from above. You die, your raid party dies, and the entire virtual world feels its wrath. Back in the meat world, you can take revenge by baking the Deathwing cake and eating it too.

Meet full-time mom, amateur cake-baker, and Huntsville, Alabama-based blogger Renée White of The Domestic Scientist who'll share some tips for crafting your own World of Warcraft-inspired cake.

Renée White

Squid Ink: For those that don't play World of Warcraft, explain what a Deathwing is and why it's so badass.

Renée White: Deathwing's story is so long and involved, it's hard to break it down into one sentence. To keep it short, Deathwing the Destroyer, an immortal dragon, used to be a good guy, but now he's gone insane and decided to kill everyone. He's so badass that just the event of him entering the realm of Azeroth (home to us Warcrafters) causes earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, the whole nine yards of world-ending events.

SI: Tell us about the flavors in the cake.

RW: The cake was a spice cake, with butter cream icing.

SI: Did you use rolled fondant, or something else for the cake's skin?

RW: I did use rolled fondant. Duff brand, to be exact. I highly recommend it: super-silky and tastes awesome!

SI: Your husband Alex bought you an airbrush for Christmas. I'm guessing you have previous experience with one? How is spraying food different from spraying other media?

RW: Ha! Fooled you! I had never used an airbrush before this cake. I practiced on some butcher paper before trying it on the cake, though. And watched a lot of videos on how to use an airbrush. I have had experience with painting d20 miniatures before (nerd alert!) so I used some of the tricks I've learned over the years with those on this cake.

SI: How did you achieve the semi-metallic look of this cake?

RW: That part is easy: metallic airbrush colors! I shaded the cake a little more dramatically than I would a normal painting, and then went over the "highlighted" areas with the metallics.

SI: What did you use for the orange eye of the dragon?

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