I wanted a special cake for my friend’s birthday and came up with this Flower Pot Birthday Cupcakes idea. It was fairly easy. You will need wooden dowels (thick enough to hold up a cupcake), lots of frosting (I used neon food coloring for the bright colors), decorating bags, star tips, Terra Cotta pot (I … Read more
I made this Flower Pot Cake for mother’s day for my mother in law. I used Oreo cookies for the dirt on top and fondant for the flowers. The whole cake is edible! The cake is French vanilla! I baked two cakes, put them on top of each other, added the icing in between the … Read more
This Flowered Cake was for my daughter’s 12th birthday. She loved this cake and I’ve gotten so many compliments on this one. It was a simple white cake with buttercream icing and flowers. The butterfly was made with fondant.
This basket of roses is my mother-in-laws 60th birthday cake I had made. She loves flowers so I decided to make this. I stacked three layers of vanilla sponge cake and put butter cream in between each and used a serrated knife to cut them into a dome for the basket. Once it was turned … Read more
For this flower birthday cake I used the Wilton Dancing Daisy pan for the flower cake, and the Wilton Mini Ball pan for the ladybug. All icing is Buttercream. I used a star tip for the majority, and a writing tip for the details on the ladybug. I used a grass/hair tip for the grass. … Read more
For my daughters 2nd birthday we did an outdoors theme with flower cakes as she loves flowers. I made simple chocolate cupcakes and frosted them chocolate as well as coating them with crushed Oreos to simulate dirt then stuck a gummy worm in each of them and topped each off with a silk flower (got … Read more
We asked my niece what type of cake she wanted for her birthday and of course she had no idea. We did a few searches on the internet and she really liked a lady bug flower cake. I purchased a Wilton flower cake pan for the flower itself. We used a rectangular cake for the … Read more
My friend’s daughter asked me to make a cake for her to take to a Bake sale at school. At first she said she wanted roses, but that scared me because I had not been decorating cakes for very long. So she helped me out and changed her mind to just flowers in general! This … Read more
I made this Spring Flower basket cake using the Course 2 materials from Wilton. There are spring flowers on top made with royal icing – the book gives the specific directions. The bluebird was made by tracing an outline of a bird with royal icing. Once dried (only a few minutes), I thinned the icing … Read more
I made this Homemade Flower Cake for my mother’s 60th birthday. It is a 2 layer 8″ round vanilla cake filled with chocolate fudge buttercream and fresh strawberries. When filling the cake, I found it easier to put a layer of frosting on both cakes (top of the bottom layer and bottom of the top … Read more
My little girl was invited to a nature themed birthday party and I thought it would be nice to make a Flower Pot Birthday Cake for her as a birthday gift and decided to go with flowers. I made the pot using the Wilton cake pan for doll cakes and trimmed it to get the … Read more
This is a cake I made for my mom for Mother’s Day. The cake is 3 layers, filled and covered in butter cream icing. I decorated the outside of the cake using the basket weave technique. I made the basket handles out of fondant – I shaped them and let them harden for a couple … Read more