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
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