This cool Basket of Daisies and Apples cake took a lot of work, but I love how it turned out. First I colored half a batch of fondant light brown, and made 4 ‘ropes’ with it. Then made 4 white ropes and twisted them together. Then I rolled them with a rolling pin until they were … Read more
My daughter asked me to make her neighbor a birthday cake, he loves gardening so we decided to make him a flower pot cake. I baked 2x 7″ round sandwich cakes and 1x 4 1/2″ sandwich cake. When cooled I started with the 7″ cakes and the top cake was the 4 1/2″ cake. I filled them with butter … Read more
Super easy flower cupcakes using Starburst and Jelly Belly candy for decorations. My daughter was turning 9 and wanted to participate in the making of her cupcakes. She chose funfetti cake mix (a favorite) but wanted homemade frosting. As we walked down the aisle we picked up the cake mix, a box of domino confectioner … Read more
My son Tyler’s digger cake, that’s what he call’s it. Oh, he loves to dig. So my husband and I have been thinking about this cake for the last couple months, what are we going to do. We had bought the dump truck already, then two days before his birthday I had this idea, lets … Read more
I made this flower cake for my neighbor’s 4th birthday party. I used the Wilton flower shaped pan and followed the baking instructions that came with the pan. I used a white cake mix and made my own butter cream icing. I set some of the icing aside to tint different colors. I first tinted a small … Read more
Matthew wanted a tractor cake which I had a basic plan for in my mind. Quite unusually as a man, I have been delegated the cake making or at least icing for our parties. Then Matthew got fixated on having icing vegetables and insisted that he new where to buy them on the other side … Read more
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
This fairy garden cake is a milk chocolate mud cake with buttercream icing. The flowers are all made from fondant with royal icing centers. The mushrooms and figures of the fairy and pixie are fondant. I made the butterfly using rice paper. I painted the image using food colouring paste diluted with water on one … Read more
I started this Garden Lover’s birthday cake with a 1/2 sheet cake and cut it in half and iced it with butter cream icing. I used 2 muffin tins to make the flower pots and iced them. I bought 2 candy flower roses on clearance at a cake decorating store and used those on top … Read more