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
I got this flower birthday cake idea from this website but I wanted to take it a step further. This was for my daughters 2nd birthday and I wanted to make cupcakes instead of a flower birthday cake. I made extra cupcakes for the kids to decorate themselves. I used my daughter’s fingerprints to paint … Read more
This cake was made for my mother in law. It is an 8 round X 2 stacked and filled with white chocolate butter cream. I piped a basket weave design around the cake and half star tip border. The sign was hand drawn on fondant with edible markers. The orange roses were hand made from … 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