This was a potted plant cake I made for my niece’s housewarming party in her new apartment. I was looking for something to fit the theme and thought a plant was a very common gift for someone’s new home. The cake is 4 layers of homemade cake, 2 chocolate and 2 vanilla. The 3 bottom … Read more
I made this vegetable garden cake for my step dads 60th birthday. He loves gardening so I thought this would be the best cake for him. It is a 12inch square fruit cake and the shed is sponge cake. It is covered with vanilla butter cream and colored fondant. If you noticed the animals on … Read more
My son wanted a bugs cake. I made the darkest chocolate cake I could, added dark chocolate frosting, ground up Oreo cookies for the dirt topping and found the ugliest worms and bugs I could (at the dollar store).
This Garden Party Cake is a 10-8-6 inch yellow cake iced with green tinted buttercream icing. All of the flowers, bow, lady bugs and bees are made with fondant. The open flowers were shaped by letting dry on an upside down shotglass. The bees and lady bugs were painted with black paste food coloring. The … Read more
My daughter wanted a DIFFERENT kind of cake for her “family” Birthday celebration… (she has a cake as well for her party with her friends)…so the idea of a DIRT CAKE was VERY APPEALING…. I first lined the pail with cello wrap… I mixed together 1/2 cup softened butter, an 8 ounce pkg. softened cream … Read more
For this Flower Pot with Ladybug Cake I used a confetti box mix. I used yellow cupcake liners and vanilla frosting (some dyed yellow) for the flowers. I used a Wilton 103 rose tip to do the cupcakes. I found a small flower pot and made chocolate rice krispie treats to go in the bottom … Read more
This Daisy Flower Birthday Cake is a cake for my daughter’s first birthday. This was my first time at making a cake for a birthday and the first time I ever used fondant icing. I got a lot of advise from the web page of Peggy Weaver. I had lot of fun, my husband helped … Read more
I made these Pink Daisy Cupcakes “Petit Fours” for my niece’s baby shower. We went a little more modern with the colors. Instead of traditional pastel colors, we chose to do hot pink, black, and white. I call these cupcake Petit Fours because they are simply upside-down cupcakes with poured fondant icing. The flowers are … Read more
I started this Homemade Flower Cake by making the flowers and leaves, this was the first time I had made them. I coloured some flower paste icing in green and yellow, always store unused flower icing in a sealed bag because it dries out really quick. I used cutters I had bought and cut the … Read more
I made this flower box cake for a friend who is an avid gardener. First, to make the window box, I baked a cake in a loaf pan. I used the whole cake mix but I probably didn’t need to. It expanded up out of the pan, this was fine, I just cut off the … Read more
This flower birthday cake I made for my 8-year-old granddaughter. She wanted flowers all over; this is my rendition of that. She likes these kinds of flowers, which she draws for me. I made a two layer 9×13 inch lemon cake. I cut out fondant flowers (pre-made fondant— the night before); lots of colors and … Read more
This cake is a twist on the classic “flourless cake.” It is dense and rich and melts in your mouth so just a sliver will suffice. Since no flour is used it is gluten and wheat free. For the cake: 1 cup water, 3/4 cup sugar, 9 tablespoons Braum’s unsalted butter diced, 18 ounces bittersweet … Read more