for an 80th Birthday cake for a very nice lady. It's pretty much up to me on the cake design. The only things Ihave to incorporate is that She loves gardening and her favorite flowers are peonies.
Any advise is greatly appreciated.
You could make a carved flower pot with Peonies sprouting out of it. Make the pot look like terra cotta and then use crushed oreos for dirt.
Write message on the pot. There is an article on this site on how to carve a pot (Step-By-Step 3D Cake Sculpting Baby in a Flower Pot).
The other popular thing right now is cupcake bouquets in flower pots made with mini cupcakes. They look like sprouting flowers (again there is a tutorial here, simply do the search for it) Maybe the cupcakes could be peonies.
Ps pictures of peonies here: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?q=peony&name=Search&x=66&y=16
Good Luck!
Thanks, those are great ideas. I love the flower pot idea. I am making large gumpaste peonies.
By the way,this cake is for about 70 people.
Anyone else ?
Maybe get the other slices in by doing a base cake with a fondant picket fence around it, with your flower pot(s) on top.
I did one like this once i incorporated some of the important life events through the years like special events twisted in a vine and flowers
Here is a site I found with some very spectacular garden themes cakes.....I could hardly believe some of them are actually cakes!
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