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
This party was a fairy themed party for my 8 year old daughter. I was inspired by cakes I found online. I had never worked with fondant before, but in enlisted the help of my 13 year old daughter, and we had so much fun together creating this Toadstool Birthday Cake, much like playing with … Read more
This cake was made for my son (turning 3) and my daughter (turning 4) whos birthday’s fall near each other. I wanted a homemade cake recipe to do with fairies for my daughter and my son liked bugs. So I combined the two ideas and formed a critter/toadstool birthday cake for the two.My mother baked … Read more
This Planter cake is a really easy cake to make. Make a chocolate loaf tin cake for the base, cover it with chocolate butter cream then add chocolate fingers round the edge to give it the planter effect. The flowers are made using colored regal icing and need very little skill. Take a pea size … Read more
My mum is a florist and I have always wanted to make here a florist shop cake. This florist cake was the end result. I had a vague idea of what I wanted it to look like but a lot of it evolved as I went along. The cake was a Madeira cake with butter … Read more
This critter cake is only my second. I took a rectangular cake(boxed) and cut it in half. I put homemade lemon curd on the top of one half and then stacked the other half on top. I then covered it with butter cream. I coloured my fondant with Kelly green and lemon yellow color, rolled … Read more
Mariana’s first birthday had to be special. After they had 3 boys they’ve got the precious princess. The theme was “flower girl” and she wanted something simple but sweet. I used buttercream frosting for the green and white base and grass and colored fondant with cookie cutters to create the flowers and butterflies. I also … Read more
This flower garden was very easy to make! The base is just a two layer sheet cake which I made from one of my cake recipes. The fence is made from lady finger cookies cut into points on one end. The dirt is crushed Oreos. The flowers are made from inverted jumbo gum drops cut … Read more