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
We are snowbirds that spend the winter in the desert, and love the cacti. I made this Homemade Flowering Cactus Cake for a couple from Germany. It is a round yellow cake, with green buttercream filling. I piped the flowers and needles with royal frosting as well as the plant itself. The dirt is graham … Read more
I made my Lily cake for my church birthday party. I wanted to make it elegant, so I made it a yellow color. I don’t know if you guys think it’s too yellow or not, however, it looks eye catching.. LOL The cake was all red velvet with cream cheese butter cream and the flowers … 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.