For years I loved to work in the garden. Roses are my favorite. Unfortunately, I am not able to do that anymore. I love to bake, so I decided to come up with a Roses In Basket Cake, my own way of bringing my roses into the house. I designed the outside of the large … Read more
I made this homemade daisy cake for a friend. Daisies are her favorite flower. This cake was quite easy to make. It’s an 8-inch chocolate/chocolate chip cake with cream cheese frosting. It is a 2 layer cake. I was playing with a product that is new to me. The chocolate fondant is by Satin Ice. … Read more
This Flower Pot Fairy cake is red velvet layers with cream cheese icing. I baked five 10 inch cakes so I would have enough cake to make it high enough to look like a flower pot. Five layers staked and carved to shape flower pot. Iced then covered with homemade fondant almond flavored. All the … Read more
I made this flower cake for niece Kar’Leigh’s 3rd birthday. She had no desired theme so my sister and I decided to make a flower cake. The bottom tier was 12×3 round pan, the middle was a 10×3 round pan and the top was an 8×3 round pan. I leveled each cake with fishing line. … Read more
I decided to do a garden theme 1st Birthday for my baby, Izel. I wanted it to be a bright happy day complete with a bumblebee pinata, flower clustered yellow balloons, and ladybug placemats. To go along with the theme I wanted to make it easy to serve individual cupcakes but also wanted an unforgettable … Read more
This flower birthday cake was fun and fairly easy. It was for a 4-year-old girl. She wanted butterflies on a flower. I used rolled fondant and made 2 butterflies a couple days in advance. I used a stencil of a butterfly and held it in a piece of paper slightly folded to dry. I then … Read more
These flower cakes were made as a flower pot cake for my cousin. The base is a 12 inch cake and the flower pot was baked in a steamed pudding pan- just like a small bundt pan. I made the butterfly and flowers from colored fondant and edible glitter. I used cake crumbs for the … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell And Toadstool Cake from homemade sponge (made from fresh ingredients not packet mix). I started with a bowl shaped sponge then cut it in half for the toadstool top. The other half of the sponge I used for the toadstool stump. I then coloured some fondant to a light brown and … Read more
I made this toadstool cake for my seven year old niece. The base and roof were cooked in bowls of the same shape (no need for cutting). Roof was on a board, which was held in place by royal icing with skewers in base to carry the weight. All icing was fondant, coloured and cut … Read more
This cake was a gift for my sons teacher at the beginning of the school year. I got free cake decorating ideas from a family tree cake I’d seen in my decorating class. I used a #16 tip to make the trunk branches and spring blossoms. I used a tip #67 for the summer and … Read more
I made this Princesses Garden Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. For the Princesses, I used the Wilton Mini Wonder pan, which makes the 4 skirts. I used cookie sticks and cling wrapped them to the dolls to insert them into their “skirts”. The base is a 12 X 18inch sheet cake. This was a … Read more
I was asked to make my Dads 80th birthday cake and as he has his own allotment and been a professional gardener all his life, I decided to base the theme on that. I started with 4 rectangular basic sponge cakes and stuck them together with butter cream and jam. I bought white fondant icing … Read more