Flower Bouquet Cake

5 from 1 vote

This flower bouquet cake design makes a pretty fondant birthday cake with a floral arrangement theme. It's easy to make and very pretty!

Prep Time25

Cook Time50

Decorating time2

Total Time3 15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 6 inches by 10 inches rectangle cake

Calories: 4731.8kcal

Preheat oven to 170 °Celsius.
Beat butter and sugar till soft and creamy for about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour.
Finally, add in vanilla extract and combine well. Pour batter into a greased and floured cake pan measuring 6 inches by 10 inches and bake for 50 to 55 minutes until the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. The cake is done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out without any wet batter.
Remove the cake from oven and let it cool completely before icing and decorating.

Arrange the gum paste flowers into a bouquet, making sure the size is matching to the size of the cake. Use the net and ribbon to fill the gaps in the bouquet. Tie all these together neatly with floral tape.
You can buy ready made gum paste flowers or you can make them your own. You can even buy these gum paste flowers readily arranged into bouquet. Set the bouquet aside.

Roll some white fondant. Cut out the scalloped pattern with the sugar craft knife. You can also use a plaque cutter if you have one.
Tint some royal icing in pink and pipe the birthday message onto it with round tip #3. Using the same colored royal icing and icing tip, pipe a border for the fondant plaque. Set it aside to dry.

Once the cake is completely cooled, level the top. Cover it with a thin layer of buttercream and then cover with white fondant.
Set the flower bouquet on the fondant covered cake.

Roll some pink fondant and cut out the tiny pink flowers with a flower plunger cutter. Attach a silver dragee in the center of each flower with fondant glue. And then attach the flowers onto the fondant covered cake in random order (with a damp brush, fondant glue or royal icing).
Finally, lay the message plaque at the bottom end of the bouquet. Secure it in place with some royal icing. You can also leave it without any glue or royal icing (especially if you do not plan to transport the cake to a different location).