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
My son loves Sunflowers, so we made this Sunflower Birthday Cake for Grandma for her birthday. It is so easy to decorate! No cake decorating tips need. BAKING/CUTING: Use 2 cake mixes – one chocolate and yellow. For the center of the sunflower, take an 8″ round cake pan and bake only 1/2 of the … Read more
This Flowerpot Cake is cake covered with fondant. Crushed cookies are on top for dirt. Flowers are sugar cookies covered with melted chocolate and sanding sugar.
I wanted to do something a little different for a Mothers Day gift and therefore learnt and made these on a cake course that I went on. The bouquet consists of six different flowers including the rose, sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum etc. I thought the bouquet looked rather impressive but very simple to make. Each cupcake … Read more
I made this Flower Cake for my niece’s Garden Party. I love making cakes and sculpting. It is somehow relaxing and rewarding at the same time. I basically made this out of four boxes of cake mix from the store. It was red velvet but any kind would work. I baked it in one round … Read more
The center is made in a round cake pan and the petals I cut from another round pan. There are butterflies sticking out of the cake also.
The big flower birthday cake pot was created by cutting slices off of various sizes of round cakes and then standing them on end. The discarded pieces were then used to be the area under the “dirt”.
I took a cake decorating class and flower cakes were our last project before the holidays. I decided to make this cake for Thanksgiving. I loved the orange and reddish colors for the flowers. I made the flowers 1 week ahead of time and let them dry in a shoe box. I used the small … Read more
This Fairy Toadstool Birthday Cake is from Debbie Brown’s “50 Easy Party Cakes” book. It starts from 2 x 1 liter bowl cakes. Basically you put one bowl upside down on top of the other bowl, trimming to the desired shape. Buttercream, then rolled icing is used to decorate. Little fairies are made out of … Read more
This homemade cake recipe was quite easy, just time consuming (arent they all!?). I hired 2 Dolly Varden cake tins. The larger one, I used for the top of the toadstool, but just cut the pointy end off the cake to get the shape I needed. And I just leveled the cake with a sharp … Read more
My son is crazy about Chica Chica Boom Boom, the book, so he had a birthday party around this theme. We had homemade Chica Chica Boom Boom Cake and pinata. The preparation was as fun as the party, he was so excited! I used a plain yellow cake, with chocolate filling, and royal icing with … 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