Make a Floral Cake
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A floral cake is such a fun centerpiece or gift, especially when you are trying to cut calories or just consume less sugar! This is so easy, I know you can do it!
You can buy a ‘cake’ of floral foam, but they cost about $8.00. I haven’t found them in any of my local stores, so I opt for regular floral foam which I can often get for less than $2.00 per block. I usually have the blocks of floral foam on hand, so I choose to use those instead. I begin by soaking two blocks of floral foam in water. I lay them down together on a cutting board and put a bowl on top of them.
I press the bowl down slightly to leave an imprint in the foam for me to use as a guide for cutting.
I use a knife to cut down all the way through the foam to begin to form my cake shape. As I cut, I can easily break away the pieces of the foam I won’t be using for the time being.
Once I have my cake shape I will be ready to make my floral cake. It is important to secure the two halves of the cake together which I do with one wood skewer pushed through so it secures both pieces together.
Now it is time to begin making the cake! This is the fun part! Cut the flower stems short and push them into the foam securely. I began with hot pink miniature carnations. You can use all kinds of different flowers, but carnations and miniature carnations are particularly easy to work with and are long lasting. Push the flowers in close to one another leaving no gaps in between them.
I kind of imagined my carnations were my icing trim around the edges of the cake and used white cushion mums as the regular frosting. Using full white mums, I put a row all the way around the cake.
Time to add some more frosting trim around the top edge of the cake with more miniature carnations. I actually decided to use two rows of the miniature carnations to ring the top edge of my cake.
Now, to top my cake I will fill the top in with more of the white cushion mums. I used two bunches of miniature carnations and one bunch of mums for this cake which only cost me $12 at my local grocery store!
I finished filling the top with white mums and topped with a rose bud. you can always add candles to your cake should you choose! To keep it fresh, set it on a plate with a ridge around the edge and fill with water, add water daily.
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I was inspired by puppy made out carnations and did it myself! Thank you for sharing!
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I was inspired by the puppy made out of carnations and tried it myself! Thank you for sharing!
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