One of our friends is getting married this summer and I offered to do her bridal shower cake. I really liked the look of fondant flowers and wanted to try and make her a flower cake.
I started by making 2 cakes, one chocolate in my big cheesecake pan, and one vanilla in a 8inch round pan. Then I made the fondant (super easy, just melted marshmallow and icing sugar). I rolled the fondant and put it on the cakes witch I had previously frosted. The rest of the fondant, I tinted blue, pink and brown to do the flowers.
I didn’t have any cookie cutters to make the flowers, so i just used a butter knife and tried to do my best. To stick the flowers on the fondant, I just dabbed a little bit of water on them. I used chocolate icing to do dots in the middle of the flowers.
To finish it off, I rolled little balls of fondant to hide the uneven bottom and then cut lines of fondant. The bride really liked the cake and so did everyone else at the party!
I am going to try a cake like this for my daughter’s first birthday – but substitue the flowers for a big #1 and a bunch of pink/purple stars…thanks for the idea!