I’ve had this crazy DIY sugar flower cake idea floating around in my head for a while now, and I figured it was finally due time to make it happen with Spring coming early and the fact that.. I just love cake. Sounds like good reasoning, right?! Alright, it was a little more complicated than that, but it all worked out in the end because holy crap this thing turned out awesome.
It actually required me enlisting the help of some pro’s to bring this DIY vision of mine together, but it turned out even better than I had imagined! I should mention that’s also a genuine statement of relief, because I currently have a pile of never-to-be-used-again materials collecting in the studio from several recent failed ideas that I would LOVE to get my money back for.
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FRIENDLY P.S.A: I swear it looks involved, but you can super easily assemble this at home!
Sugar flowers (we bought ours from Dazzled Cupcakes here)
Layered cake (ours is from Hannah Joy’s Cakes)
Additional thick icing to use as edible adhesive
I am NO WHERE near a pro at making edible flowers quite as beautiful as the ones we bought from Dazzled Cupcakes on Etsy, so I left that to her. They’re so detailed, and worth every penny for…someone else to make. Ha! There are plenty of tutorials online if you’re willing to attempt it yourself, otherwise you can just purchase and adhere them..
I also wanted to have an equally colorful cake itself, so we ordered ours from Hannah Joy’s Cakes and it’s as delicious as it is pretty.
To stick them to the cake, you’ll need additional THICK icing to use as an edible adhesive for the light flowers. You can specially request that the larger flowers contain stems to stick into the cake for extra security for the heavier ones like the Tiger Lilies and Peonies, and also use a dab of icing to really make sure they’re set in place
Just spread a bit of icing on the back of each flower and put them in place one by one until you’ve got the whole cake covered.
FLORAL TIP: We got approximately 120 flowers (including the very tiny ones) and were able to cover one 6×6 inch cake and cover one half of a 3×3 inch cake.
Admittedly I may have had Jared take about 18913481748719 photos of these flowers just for good measure in case of emergency Instagramming, etc. You know the drill..
Seriously, are the details in these flowers not insane?! Hence why I did not even attempt to make them on my own. Some things are just better left to others, and these definitely fit into that category.
What do you think, the flowers even look real do they not?! Just please pinky swear to lie to me even if you don’t think so, because I’m very obviously attached. I’m also considering saving the flowers and reusing them for floral cupcakes or mini cakes for Spring/Mother’s Day/Easter.
Be sure to let us know if you make your own so we can follow along and share them, too! #mysugarandcloth #sugarandcloth
Gabriella
02.11.16
This is all so beautiful! I love it.
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks, Gabriella!!
Carrie
02.11.16
Holy cow! This is stunning.
Carrie
http://www.wearwherwell.com
sugarandclothteam said:
Haha Thank so much, Carrie! Glad you like this :)
meredith
02.11.16
This is so incredibly beautiful I can’t believe it’s REAL CAKE. You’re a rockstar!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks, Meredith! It really is crazy what you cake do with cake and sugar!
linda \\ the baker who kerns
02.11.16
This is like the most beautiful thing I have seen on the internet in a long time!
sugarandclothteam said:
WOW! Thank you, Linda!
Esmeralda Estrada
02.11.16
BEAUTIFUL!!!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thank you, Esmeralda!! :)
Sarah Lou Nails
02.11.16
My god, this is unreal. So gorgeous. Want. In. My. Belly. Now.
sugarandclothteam said:
Haha Thanks, Sarah. And it really is just as good as it looks! Hannah Joy’s Cakes are out of this world!
Paige
02.11.16
This cake is gorgeous!
Paige
http://thehappyflammily.com
sugarandclothteam said:
So glad you like it, Paige! :)
Mary Maher
02.11.16
Okay, so my sister and I are huge fans of your site. We are crushing so hard on this cake and are green with “wish we would of thought of something this awesome” envy….love it!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks so much, Mary! Just looked at the Valentine’s section on your website! You guys have so many awesome ideas! Loved the Heart Candy Box Cake!
Rachel | The Crafted Life
02.11.16
Girl, I can’t EVEN! This is so stunning!
sugarandclothteam said:
Haha that was pretty much our same reaction when we opened the box of sugar flowers from Dazzled Cupcakes! Glad you enjoyed this one! :)
Kristina B
02.12.16
OMG this is amazing and OUTRAGEOUS and gorgeous and YES the flowers are so real looking! I love it!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks, Kristina! I know, I can’t get over how real the flowers look! I just keep staring at them in the studio haha
Carrie
02.12.16
This is all KINDS of spectacular! I’m also now craving cake for lunch…Soooooo, there’s that. Beautiful work!
Fyda Noh said:
Me too… can’t stand seeing beautiful cakes
sugarandclothteam said:
Haha I know the feeling!! It took a lot of will power not to eat this cake before photographing it!
Kristine
02.12.16
I am going to echo the comments of all the previous commenters….just gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous! I think a cake like this would be so beautiful for a wedding shower…or even the wedding itself!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks so much, Kristine! It would be perfect for a wedding shower!
Chrissie
02.13.16
Very pretty cake for sure…Lovely decorating job.
Just one aside – Please don’t stick the wire directly into a cake. There are many and varied reasons not to, but there are also safe ways like inserting a drinking straw into the cake and putting the wire in that, so wire isn’t missed and accidentally ingested. Floral tape used to cover the wire, paint on the wire, they are not ‘food-grade’. They are made for the floral industry…so, I don’t mean to ruin your party, but please don’t put the ‘stems’ into your cake in the future. Blessings!
sugarandclothteam said:
Thanks for the tips, Chrissie!
Fyda Noh
02.14.16
I love decorating job.. absolutely beautiful cake..
sugarandclothteam said:
Thank you, Fyda!!
Charlotte l Lotts and Lots
02.15.16
Amazing, this is so beautiful! It’d make a fab wedding cake too.
sugarandclothteam said:
I totally agree! Perfect for spring!!
Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land
02.17.16
this is my favourite cake of the internet right now. it is AMAZING and so fun and artful and pretty. beautiful job styling this!
Sugar & Cloth said:
Thanks so much, Lyndsay!! :)
Tania
02.18.16
that’s really pretty!!
Sugar & Cloth said:
Thanks so much, Tania!
Alexis
02.18.16
This cake is amazingly gorgeous! I can’t stop looking at it!
Sugar & Cloth said:
Thanks, Alexis!! :)
carrie
03.09.16
How amazing is this? You blow me away!
Carrie
http://www.wearwherewell.com
Ashlyn
03.14.16
OMG!! How amazing and fun is this cake!! love the flowers and the amazing rainbow! http://www.lovesthefind.com/
Ashley said:
Thanks Ashlyn!
Ashlyn @ the pedantic foodie
03.15.16
Oh my goodness, this is so gorgeoUs!! I want this for my neXt birThday! ❤️❤️❤️