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Mother's Day cake

Mother's Day CakeEvery mom loves flowers-- except the ones who are allergic. So what's better than getting flowers for mom on Mother's Day? Making her a cake with flowers on it, of course!

I began with two 6-inch round cakes, leveled and stacked with a layer of buttercream between. I then iced the entire thing with white buttercream and let sit for a couple of minutes before smoothing. To get a 'fondant finish' (smooth like fondant but tasty like icing), I used my wooden fondant roller and a Viva paper towel and gently rolled over the surface of the cake.

I found a Wilton tulip and daisy muffin pan and thought it was perfect for baking flowers for the top of a cake. Each flower was leveled so it would sit evenly on top and alternate in a circle. The daisies were iced using tip #220. When I got it, I really thought this tip was going to make a neat drop flower but mostly it just makes pretty fat swirls. I made the centers with small pale yellow fondant circles. For the tulips, I used tip #3 so you could see a basic outline of the petals shape then did a small star tip to fill them in.

It still looked a little plain so I decided to use the flower fondant cutouts and make alternating colors of daisies and tulips for that as well. As an extra touch, I took dark purple fondant and cut out a butterfly shape. I shaped them over a bent piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil and let them dry overnight. I made four just in case I broke one which was good because I ended up breaking two.

Once I added a little green grass around the edge to finish it off, it was all done. As a mom myself, I think I would much prefer to get these flowers than the kind that come in a vase.

Mother's Day cake(click thumbnails to view gallery)

Filed Under: Holidays, Methods
Tags: baking, butterfly, cake, dessert, flowers, mothers day, mothers-day, MothersDay, spring

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Gina

5-08-2008 @10:52AM Gina said... Great looking cake! I'd take cake for mother's day, sure thing!
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min

5-08-2008 @11:39PM min said... I agree. I love cake and any type of dessert. My children sent me sweets for Mother's Day- I got them already, and they were soooo good. It wasn't a cake, but it was brownies that tasted homemade: http://www.someonespoilme.com/gift-review/sugardaddys-sweetie-selector/
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Susu

5-13-2008 @1:22PM Susu said... This cake is darling!
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