Are you anxious to see your flowers blooming again? Make a cake to celebrate spring.
This project will make you feel all the joy of seeing the first blooms breaking through the earth after a long winter.
Materials Needed:
- Two cake mixes and the required ingredients for the mix
- Cooling rack
- Frosting
- Fondant
- New paint brushes
- Gel food coloring
- Egg yolks
- Rolling pin
- Pizza cutter
- Knife
- Flower-shaped cookie cutters
Make the two cakemixes as directed for an 8- to 9-inch round. This should make four individual rounds. Cool the cakes on your cooling racks.
While cakes are cooling, roll out the fondant. Using your cookie cutters and knives, cut out fondant pieces.
- Use the 3/4" cutters to make wisteria, lilacs or hyacinths. To do this you will need to cut out 100 of the little flowers for one cluster of flowers.
- For daisies, cut out five or six teardrop-shaped petals and a small circle for the flower's center.
- For leaves, you can either cut out the shape of the leaf with a knife or use cookie cutters in the shape of a leaf. Do both for some variation. Flowers do not all have the same shape of leafs. You can cut some long spiked leafs to add dimension.
- For a picket fence, cut a piece of fondant approximately 18" X 3". Use your pizza cutter to slice 1/2 inch pickets. Taper the end of each picket by cutting away the top two corners. Cut out two 1/4" X 1/4" squares for each picket.
Once the cake is cool, frost and stack each layer. Frost the whole exterior of the cake. Save the extra frosting.
To assemble the cake:
- Stack pickets all the way around the cake with two of the 1/4" X 1/4" pieces between each picket for crossboards. Continue until the whole base of the cake is a picket fence.
- Using gel food coloring mixed with egg yolk, paint your fence. You can paint it prior to putting it on the cake but the moisture will make it softer and harder to manage.
- Using egg yolks and food coloring, paint each of the flowers and leafs. Try to get them different hues and different intensities of the same color. It will look more like nature than if they were all exactly alike.
- Begin sticking the small flowers into the frosting. Overlap them to really make a cluster. Use frosting to stick small flowers on top of other small flowers. Drape them over the edge of the cake and right down over the fence.
- Add your daisies by sticking the petals in a circle of the frosting. Add the center circle with a dab of frosting on the back to make it stick to the center of the petals.
- Add leaves randomly. Lay some flat on the cake and some raised up above the cake surface. Add lots of flowers for a full garden effect.
Happy Spring
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