I made this flower birthday cake for my mother’s birthday. She wanted a cake with flowers on it. All she asked was a cake with a couple of flowers to make it look pretty. She did not know what to expect. So I surprised her with big beautiful flowers all over the cake. I made large rose … Read more
This year I made a cake for a friend’s Christmas dinner. I was allowed to make whatever I wanted. This Poinsettia Flowers Christmas cake took a couple of months to make as I could only work on weekends. I started by making poinsettia flowers. I wanted it to look like a real plant. This was my … Read more
I had a friend at work who was having a special birthday – I won’t say how old! She is a wonderful person full life. With all her hobbies, I had several themes to pick from. I decided to go with her love of gardening as my inspiration. I went through pictures of different flowers … Read more
This last minute Dogwood Cake is an 8inch round for a friend in need of a birthday cake for her granny’s 90th birthday (which happens to be my best friend’s granny)!! I had a choice of dogwoods, or red birds, so I took dogwoods.This was my first time making dogwoods, so I wasn’t sure how they were going … Read more
Any inexpensive dollar store vase will do for this Cupcake Bouquet, nothing to light though. Need a Styrofoam ball, one that will fit nicely into your vase. Make your cupcakes, cool, icing and attach to toothpicks that you will insert into the Styrofoam ball. I also added some artificial green stems carefully after adding the … Read more
I threw together this Spring Flowers cake kind of last minute. Someone I work with asked if I could do a 1/4 sheet double layer overnight for a birthday. So I did the bottom layer chocolate and the top vanilla with frosting in the middle. I had made the drop flowers the weekend before for … Read more
This Flowers Birthday Cake was for an 88 year old Birthday. Top is blended red, yellow, and orange-red buttercream. Sides are chocolate brown basket weave. I prepared fondant roses in advance of 2 colors – orange-pink, and purple (got this from youtube) Roll the fondant into small balls, get a Ziploc baggie and use to … Read more
This Daisy cake was made for my friend’s granddaughter for her 3rd birthday. I started by making two butterflies out of flower paste and left them to harden, then I coloured them in with edible colour paste and added a it of glitter. I baked 3x 8” sandwich cakes and they were left to go … Read more
I am a cake and wedding nerd! I love to look at books, videos, photos etc. of gorgeous cakes. I love making cakes for family, friends and clients. One day I was watching videos on YouTube on decorating with royal icing to practice string work. I came across a master cake artist from the UK … Read more
This is a spin off of one that was already submitted…. I got the idea from here! And I loved it so much. I just thought these pictures would give other viewers ideas on how to implement the flower birthday cake idea. I used two 10″ rounds for the base of the large purple flower. … Read more
Cake baked in a large loaf pan covered with chocolate frosting lady fingers placed all around the edge with the tips cut into points. Crushed Oreos/chocolate cookies sprinkled on top for “dirt”. Large gumdrops cut into flowers placed on top of green toothpicks. Thanks for ideas on flower cakes on your website, it helped a … Read more
I made my Lily cake for my church birthday party. I wanted to make it elegant, so I made it a yellow color. I don’t know if you guys think it’s too yellow or not, however, it looks eye catching.. LOL The cake was all red velvet with cream cheese butter cream and the flowers … Read more