I made this flower birthday cake for my mother’s birthday. She wanted a cake with flowers on it. All she asked was a cake with a couple of flowers to make it look pretty. She did not know what to expect. So I surprised her with big beautiful flowers all over the cake. I made large rose … Read more
This year I made a cake for a friend’s Christmas dinner. I was allowed to make whatever I wanted. This Poinsettia Flowers Christmas cake took a couple of months to make as I could only work on weekends. I started by making poinsettia flowers. I wanted it to look like a real plant. This was my … Read more
I had a friend at work who was having a special birthday – I won’t say how old! She is a wonderful person full life. With all her hobbies, I had several themes to pick from. I decided to go with her love of gardening as my inspiration. I went through pictures of different flowers … Read more
This last minute Dogwood Cake is an 8inch round for a friend in need of a birthday cake for her granny’s 90th birthday (which happens to be my best friend’s granny)!! I had a choice of dogwoods, or red birds, so I took dogwoods.This was my first time making dogwoods, so I wasn’t sure how they were going … Read more
We asked my niece what type of cake she wanted for her birthday and of course she had no idea. We did a few searches on the internet and she really liked a lady bug flower cake. I purchased a Wilton flower cake pan for the flower itself. We used a rectangular cake for the … Read more
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