I had never tried fondant (or paper) quilling before but had started to see some on-line pictures popping up using quilled fondant. I decided to give this Homemade Quilled Fondant Flower Cake a go when I was asked to make the birthday cake for a lovely lady who runs our local community playgroup. I used … Read more
This Flower Birthday Cake is my very first attempt! The top was a 2-layer white cake, the bottom was a 3-layer chocolate cake. Decoration was buttercream icing and fondant flowers, ladybugs, and ribbons. The smash cake (not pictured) was a cupcake with the green icing, a larger daisy with a tiny ladybug on the petals.
I used white frosting and then tried to figure out how to use the leaves painted with white chocolate (the only leaf that seems to work is a lemon tree leaf— kinda waxy and shiny); anyway, I colored the white chocolate pale pink and made some a pale green-place in the center of the flower … Read more
I decided to make my sister a Sunflower cake for her birthday. It was quite easy to create. Flower cakes are a bit more of “adult cakes” especially for a 32 year old!I baked a usual Victoria sponge recipe – placing the two cakes together and filling with jam. I then took royal icing and … 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