How To Make a Volcano Cake with a Dragon Coming Out!

Not that anyone necessarily CARES how to make a volcano cake with a dragon coming out, but just in case they did.

Bake some cakes. Preferably chocolate.
You need a bundt cake and 1 9-inch round cake.
Place bundt cake on plate or cake tray, and shave off rounded sides with serrated knife.
Then, using fingers, create divots and valleys through which blazing hot lava might run.
Save shavings and divot and valley crumbs.

Now, shove chocolate frosting under bottom edge of bundt cake all the way around.
Mix some more chocolate frosting into the shavings and crumbs.
Shove frosting/crumb mixture under and around bottom of cake to make it
look more 'volcano-y'.

Using a small dessert-ish size plate as a reference, cut a circle out of the middle of the 9-inch round cake. Using a cup or something else smaller, cut another circle out of THAT circle.
Place the ring of cake on top of the bundt cake, attaching with chocolate frosting.

With serrated knife, shave edges off ring of cake to blend seamlessly into
previously shaved bundt cake.

Make more divots and valleys on sides of ring of cake to blend into previously
divot-ed and valley-ed bundt cake.

Figure out how to get a dragon to stand upright in the middle of the cake (we used tiny plastic cups with holes punched through the bottoms, and lucky for us, the dragon's tail is removable).

Mix white frosting with red gel food coloring.

And then add some more red gel food coloring.

And then add the rest of it, because let's face it, that frosting needs to be really really red.

Spoon really really red frosting over top of cake, and down into divots and valleys.

Ta-Da

And yes, I am wearing a wine-colored nice-casual top with light blue hospital pants in these pictures.
No, I don't normally wear those things together, but apparently that day I went for comfort.
And yes, I was comfortable. Thank you for asking. :)