Sunny Sunflower In A Pot Birthday Cake

This weekend we celebrated my daughter’s ninth birthday. When I asked her what kind of cake she would like, she said a cake full of flowers. Hmmm….rather stumped at how I was going to achieve the desired cake.  I searched the web for some ideas but there wasn’t all that much out there that I could qualify as easy.  I chatted about my dilemma with my neighbor and she suggested making cupcakes and then shaping them into a sunflower in a pot.  This is how the final cake came out…

My cake recipe made 29 cupcakes and I made a single batch of pipeable cream cheese frosting.  I used Wilton icing food coloring and some basic color chart knowledge to create the colors for the frosting. For the brown center, I used a basic star tip, the sunflower petals were the rose petal tip and for the green stem, I used a grass like tip.  The pot was also made out of stars.


The frosting was delicious and was such a nice change from the standard butter cream. However, I ended up using almost three more cups of confectionery sugar than the recipe called for.  Even then, the frosting was very soft and didn’t work all that well as a pipeable frosting.  The recipe did say that it would work better if it was chilled.  I did put the frosting in the refrigerator in between colors, but I didn’t notice that much of a difference.  If I were to use the recipe again, I would consider making the frosting the day before I needed to use it. 


The end result was a very tasty, one of a kind birthday cake.  My daughter loved it when she saw it.  Mission accomplished!