I made a birthday cake in the shape of a sunflower today. I’m really chuffed about how it turned out.
Both the flower and the pot are spiral cakes mixing chocolate and vanilla, covered in rolled fondant. Unlike my previous attempt at a carved cake, this time I selected a sponge cake recipe so it’s holding its shape under the weight of the fondant. But just like last time, there was far, far more cake carved off and discarded than ended up in the final result. I really have to try my hand at a less wasteful design.
Wrapping the fondant around the sphere of cake that formed the flower took approximately one hundred billion years of frustration and repeated attempts. And that’s rounding down.
Whomever has their birthday next better be a fan of square cakes. Or better yet, store bought square cakes.
A M A Z I N G !!! BUT You know it sort of bugs me the way you learn how to do everything and then instantly become the best in the world at it. As a good friend who loves you a bunch, I wish you nothing but failure in 2010 so the rest of us can keep up. :)
That cake is awesomely rad.
I don’t like to eat cake but I like to look at it, so thanks! :)
PS – HI!
is there a cake under there somewhere? :)