Categories: Food & Wine

Decorate a Cake with Flowers

You don’t have to be a professional baker to make impressive cakes. There are unique and easy ways to decorate cakes with flowers, and you can impress your friends and family with delectable treats that look bakery fresh, impressive, and truly irresistible. You can decorate all of your cakes to look like they came right from a professional bakery.

Try the following unique and easy ways to decorate your cakes with flowers. Whether you plan to decorate a cake for a party, or simply for fun, these unique and easy tips and tricks will help you decorate like a professional. Try these unique and easy decorating tips next time you bake a cake. You won’t believe how easy it is to make professional looking flowers for decorated cakes that looks impressively delicious.

Handmade Cream Cheese Flowers

You don’t have to be skilled with a decorating bag to make fancy flowers. Handmade flowers are easy to make and easy to roll by hand, and they are tastier than the hard sugar variety.

To make handmade flowers you’ll need two ounces of cream cheese, two cups of powdered sugar, and food coloring. You’ll also need bowls in which to mix separate colors.

Begin by mixing the cream cheese and powdered sugar. Add a few drops of food coloring, and thoroughly knead it in. Add more food coloring if necessary, to achieve the depth of color you desire.

To make a rosebud, roll a piece of dough in to a ball, and flatten it into a thin oblong shape. Roll it up to create a beautiful rosebud that looks as real as the flowers from your garden.

Surround the rosebud with leaves by rolling a piece of green dough into a small rope. Flatten the rope, and cut out the shapes of leaves with a small knife. Complete the flower by rolling a piece of green dough into a narrow stem. Attach thorns made of dough if desired.

You can make all types of flowers to decorate cakes. Simply roll colored cream cheese dough into thin sheets, and cut out petals of various shapes. Make centers by rolling balls of yellow or orange cream cheese dough.

You’ll enjoy making these flowers as much as you’ll enjoy eating them. No one will believe the cakes you decorate with cream cheese flowers didn’t come from a professional bakery.

Flowers From Nature

If you don’t have time to make flowers to decorate baked goods, get a little help from Mother Nature. Fresh flowers are the perfect toppings.

Add the beauty of flowers to a bundt cake by placing a shallow container of water in the center. Fill it with fresh, clean, cut flowers, and top the frosted cake with several flower blooms, either with or without stems.

Top an ordinary frosted cake with flower cuttings of your choice. Embellishments provided by nature are some of the best cake decorations available. Not only are they naturally beautiful, but also they are easy to arrange. Fresh flowers make an ordinary cake extraordinary.

Fixing Frosting Flaws

A frosted cake that isn’t so perfect can be made to look flawless with the addition of colored sprinkles, coconut, or small candies of your choice. Randomly sprinkle toppings of your choice on top of the cake, and cover the sides by pressing in sprinkles and other toppings with a spatula or by hand. Top the embellished cake with flowers of your choice.

With a little creativity and ingenuity, your finished cake will look as good as a professionally decorated cake from your local bakery. You can decorate it yourself!