I've thought about doing a bouquet of flowers. I was going to cut the cake to look like a bouquet, cover the bottom in fondant and dust or stamp with a metallic color to look like the florist's foil. The I'd cover the top part in flowers with stems and leaves to hide the cake underneath. I was also going to rest it on some cello and add a gift tag also made of fondant. I don't think I'm going to do it though. It'd be pretty but my DM doesn't like cut flowers. She prefers them potted.
cant you do a potted flower cake???? I think that would look great!!!! I know with your talents you can do it!!!
How about this - think about what your mother in particular loves and do a cake on that theme?
Or.. think about what most any mom would love.. a vacation? a good kid? a night off? someone else to make dinner? kid saying "I love you, Mom!"?? - and make a cake based on one of those ideas.
Maybe think of a common saying that Moms say.. "Don't run with scissors!" or whatever she says.. "Don't make me say your full name, young lady!" something that might come out amusing on a cake..
OR.. a character cake or BCT of famous cartoon or tv moms - Wilma Flintstone, Jane Jetson, etc.
That's all for right now..
~AngelWendy
Hi all,
I want to thank you all. You have given me wonderful ideas for the cake.
the cake is actually for the all the staff (especially mothers!) in our local library and I just want to thank them for their help and hard work. So that is the story! well thanks again for your help 
i have done a mother's day hat. the cake was covered in fondant. I colored the fondant the blue color 1st and added a little bit of the purple color so that the fondant had two-toned effect. I covered the board with fondant to make the rim (brim?) of the hat. I then used royal icing to paint the decoration on it. Here is what it looked like.
cant you do a potted flower cake???? I think that would look great!!!! I know with your talents you can do it!!!
Thanks flayv! You have more confidence in me than I have in myself--LOL! I actually tried to make my SIL a topiary cake once...it ended up having to be a potted rose bush. I didn't have a good stand to support the top of the topiary and it fell down. Luckily I hadn't decorated it yet so it was an easy save. I think I'm going to go with a cooking theme. I bought my DM a beautiful set of vintage melmac spatterware bowls she'd been wanting. They were new in the original box so this is a very special gift. I want to try to incorporate that into the cake.
Those all sound like very nice ideas! I think the flower pot idea is especially fun. Now I've got something to go to Michael's and look for! (Ceramic Pot w/no hole in the bottom that I can bake in.) LOL
Those all sound like very nice ideas! I think the flower pot idea is especially fun. Now I've got something to go to Michael's and look for! (Ceramic Pot w/no hole in the bottom that I can bake in.) LOL
I've heard that works really well. I have a stainless steel bowl shaped like a flowers pot(maybe it's a planter). That's what I baked the cake in. I should have used a flower nail or baked two layers though cause I wanted a really high cake and it took forever to bake.
A Family photo albm cake would be cool use the book cake pan and a few famliy photos on that edible paper would be so cute !
A Family photo albm cake would be cool use the book cake pan and a few famliy photos on that edible paper would be so cute !
does edible paper go into a regular printer??
A Family photo albm cake would be cool use the book cake pan and a few famliy photos on that edible paper would be so cute !
does edible paper go into a regular printer??
Yes...but it has to be a certain kind of printer (Canon bubble jet) and you have to use edible ink cartridges with a dedicated print head (only used for edible inks).
Lisa, You have a great amount of talent in the cake department....so YES I know you could do one!!!!
You can bake a cake in a regular 6" flower pot. Just grease the pot with crisco and then line it with wax paper and bake as normal. I just finished a birthday cake for my mother in law like this. No need to worry about finding a pot without a hole once lined with wax paper it works just great.
but i am wondering what type of pot you are referring too? Do you mean strictly the terracotta pots? How do I know which planters would withstand the heat of the oven?
This is news to me, and very exciting!!!! (A whole new world, yep I am singing that song........... )
sahm
They actually sell terracotta pots that are used just for baking. I bought a set of four...they came in a bread baking kit. These pots were glazed on the inside. You can use regular terrcotta pots though...
http://www.foundationtv.co.uk/f-tips/flowerpotcookery.html
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