I got the idea for this Garden Birthday Cake from the Wilton web site. I made this as a birthday cake for my father in law. I made a carrot cake and used carrots from our garden so I wanted it to have a garden theme.
It was just two 9 inch round cakes. I used cream cheese icing and was going to color it green to resemble grass, but I just started icing the cake and realized too late I hadn’t colored it. So I just used the grass tip and added grass to the top.
I used Wilton decorator icing (from the can) for the grass and all flowers. I used a chocolate cupcake for the flower pot. I tried coloring my icing to make a Terra Cotta color for the flower pot, but it looked more brown. I then piped in flowers and leaves and because I used a chocolate cupcake it looked like dirt in the flower pot. I made the trowel (pattern from Wilton.com), gloves, and seed packet out of MM fondant. I used food markers to put little cherries on the gloves and drew “seeds” and flowers on the seed packet.
For the gloves I was going to trace my 2 year old daughter’s hand and cut out the gloves, but I instead used a cookie cutter I have.
I cut the picket fence (again pattern from wilton.com) from fondant colored brown and originally was going to put it around the entire cake but I am new to working with fondant so it would have taken me hours to cut enough pieces to put around the entire cake. I took the short cut and just put a section of fence on. I used a brush and water to apply the pieces of the fence across the others.
This is my third cake I have done. I think it turned out really cute. I think it is amazing the things you can make to put on a cake and that it can all be edible.
One trick I use and I don’t know if everyone does this, but if I am planning to make a cake I bake it a few weeks ahead of time and then just take it out of the freezer right before I start decorating it. This cuts way down on the amount of time spent if you were to do it all in one day.
That is amazing for just your third cake! Good job!
I love your cake!!!! I love the bag of seed and the shovel! It is so cute!!
I can’t believe it was only your 3rd cake. Just goes to show how many talented people there are in this world. Way to go, that looks absolutely fantastic.