Can someone tell me how to make the daffodil bunch/bouquet cake. i wanted to make it for mothers day but can't find a forum on it. i was going to cover the cake in buttercream. I'd prefer to not put stick or wires in it if possible. Also do you think I can make the stems and lowers out of modeling chocolate. I didnt want to use fondant or gumpaste.

These are some of my favorites from CC

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1993788
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1200886

Besides here, I would also suggest looking on YouTube for tutorials.

I have never made this cake, but I have a few ideas.

I would create a dome of some sort to lay the flowers on. I would either try to make dome out of cake and then frost it as usual, or make a dome from melted sugar over a bowl, then cooled and frosted.

I lke the idea of the melted sugar bowl. never tried that, but sounds fun/

I am going to make two of these cakes for friends who have birthdays this coming weekend, I will be using fondant, but one idea I had which I am going to try out is instead of using an extruder to make the stalks I am going to split a drinking straw lengthways and use it to imprint the individual stalks into the fondant once it is on the cake - you might be able to do this with modelling chocolate or buttercream, worth a try. let me know how you get on with your cake. HTH

I made this cake a couple of weeks ago for Daffodil day in Ireland. It took a lot of preparation. I made the fondant daffodils and coloured the fondant for the stalks in advance. I used an extruder however for the stalks (which still took ages) But for the main body of the cake i used 3 8" rounds & 1 dome on top baked in SS bowl and covered the whole think in lemon BC. In hindsight i would have trimmed the rounds more to look more slender & hopefully taller, the finished cake is in my photos.The "string & tag" are also fondant. Good luck