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Edible Flower Cakes for Fantastic Garden Parties
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items Recipes for making, baking and decorating lovely cakes that incorporate beautiful edible flowers.
The recipe for this lovely Enchanted Flower Vanilla Berry Cake is from My Tiny Laguna Kitchen. They used lots of purple edible flowers to decorate the top of this cake.
Enchanted Flower Vanilla Berry Cake
Besides sharing the recipe for this lemon sponge cake, the blogger behind Tastebotanical shares tips on gathering and choosing edible flowers, soaking them in water, and how to preserve them til the last minute before you apply them to your cake.
Lemon Sponge Cake with Edible Flowers
I have a couple of lilac trees in my back yard, but the season for them is short. Next spring I will have to harvest them in time so I can make this Lilac and Vanilla Victoria Sandwich Cake with Lilac Honey and Mascarpone Frosting.
Lilac Cake – Lilac and Vanilla Victoria Sandwich Cake with Lilac Honey and Mascarpone Frosting
One of my favorite blogs is A Beautiful Mess. Here, Elsie and Emma share tips on which flowers are edible and how to use them on cakes, rather than just a recipe.
Tips for Using Edible Flowers on Cake
The King Arthur Baking supply company gives us a tutorial and five ideas for using edible flowers on cakes.
How to use edible flowers for cakes and other bakes
The Daily Delicious blog shares their idea for a sweet and simple cake with colorful edible flowers on top.
Garden flower Cake
Here's a lovely cake for people who don't want a bunch of frosting. It's the Triple Lemon Naked Layer Cake with edible flowers, from the Buttered Side Up blog.
Triple Lemon Naked Layer Cake with Edible Flowers
The roses in my garden here in the PNW don't get going until later in June. Then I can pick some petals to make this rose geranium cake!
Rose Geranium Cake with Rose Geranium Buttercream Frosting — HONEST MAGAZINE
I love salted caramel, and look how lovely the sugared rose petals came out! This would be a showstopper cake at your next garden party.
Salted Caramel Rose Cake | Adventures in Cooking
I thought it might be nice to have a vegan cake option for my edible floral cakes list!
Vegan Edible Flower Confetti Cake
This is an absolutely gorgeous cake, and I love that they use the blackberry juice to tint the frosting as well. Here in the PNW we don't have blackberries until August. I'm not sure where I would source the micro pepper, alyssum and micro mint shown...
Blackberry Lime Cake | The Cake Blog
Here's a very easy quickbread style loaf cake you can serve at your next garden party. They chose pansies for the top of the cake.
Lemon and Lime Drizzle Cake with edible flowers - Enjoy nature's beauty - WIld About Here
Any fans of orange chiffon cake here? It's a lovely vintage recipe. This cake from the RunAwayRice blog is embellished with edible daisies.
Orange Chiffon Cake with Edible Flowers
This lovely hazelnut blackberry cake uses edible rose petals, raspberries and an orange glace icing on the top.
Hazelnut and Blackberry Cake — The Edible Flower
I love these cute mini Bundt cakes. Just enough for four or five bites! They're decorated with edible flowers and frosted with pink icing.
DIY: Mini bundt cakes with edible flowers — Our Happy Tribe