OK I'm making a cake for my mom for Mother's Day and I had a thought to do a little mini flower pot next to it. Mom's favorite flower is Daisy's, I have a Wilton instructional book that gives step by step directions SO HOPEFULLY they will turn out. This will be only my 2nd time making Royal Icing and my first attempt at Daisy's. I was thinking of only having Daisy's in the pot of a couple of colors (yellow and white) I've seen several pots on here that the flower is on a 'stem' how is that done? Is that just wire attached? Can you have wire in cake?
Also how do you get that terra cotta color? My bank account is empty (thus the reason for a cake as a present) so I have to be able to use whatever I have at home.... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I just wanted to say good luck...and I think there is no greater gift than cake on Mother's Day. 
I'm making one for my mom and MIL, too!! I'm mostly helping you bump, because I haven't done a potted cake, but I have made many royal icing flowers! The daisies and daffodils are my favorites. Many of the potted cakes use gumpste or fondant for the flowers, though. Royal icing dries very hard, and makes a great "glue" to attach things too, though.
I can't wait to read some intructions for the potted cakes. I think they look awesome!!
Angie
Edit to add...
one of my favorite examples of a potted cake...
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=pot&cat=0&pos=174&search=pot
And another great one..
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=pot&cat=0&pos=240&search=pot
Thanks for the bump
The first pic is the one where I kinda got the idea = it looks like she just poked the floral sticks right into the cake! Is that ok?
How to you make stems for the flowers?
I am going to start making these in a few hours SO ANY help would be great!
Thanks
I got close to a terra cotta color adding some cocoa and some copper to my fondant. I think it needed to be a little more orange or red, but it worked.
You could attach the flowers to sucker sticks using candy melts or royal, or you can attach it to the wire.
I am doing a cake with a stars on wire. It says to insert the plastic dowels that are hollow in to the cake. Then you shove some fondant down in to the dowel. You put the wire down in to the fondant, then you seal the whole thing up with more fondant at the top of the hole.
Did that make sense?
Yes, that made sense got it! don't have any hollow dowells, but I got it!
let me think what else might work... hmm
I dunno I'll have to look around..
If I made the stem out of royal would it stay up? I thought it would break...
I'm making fondant tomorrow - I could make the stems out of that - I could just attach the flower w/ a dab of royal, right?
Sorry to be annoying this is an on the whim idea so now I'm like what was I thinking
I completely understand. I am always trying to make cakes out of stuff I have on hand, and sometimes I get creative. lol
I think that royal icing stems would break. I am not sure about the fondant, but if you did it that way you would probably want to let the fondant dry overnight or something so it was really hard.
I don't know if it would work though. No harm in trying.
I think royal stems would break, and I'm not sure if fondant ones would be stiff enough.
If you're making short flowers you could use toothpicks, or bamboo skewers if you have those.
Maybe you could use wires and then use drinking straw pieces to put them in the cake. You could shove some fondant into both ends of a piece of straw, then put the wire into the fondant at the "top" end. When you put the straw into the cake, the fondant at the "bottom" end would keep the wire from making contact with the cake.
Good luck!
Laura.
I have seen on a thread here (can't remember) that someone saran wrapped the wire and then put into the cake.
Sorry, I'm not much of help. I'm still in the buttercream phase. LOL.
Good luck!
~Josie
THanks I have straws that would work and of course tooth picks.!!
Hey I wonder if I could put a wire and put a tooth pick at the end of the wire wrap it in floral tape - and only the tooth pick would actually be IN the cake. Do you think that would work?
Sorry I'm being a pest...
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