My flower Pots

I am officially on summer vacation, it started yesterday! I'm off for 10 days, then I am returning to LCB to finish up my last 6 weeks there, but I do not have anymore kitchens.

In my sculpting and design class we finished up our wedding cakes(future blog), that was my last kitchens practical. We had 3 days left, so my chef decided we can make cakes.The best part is, is that we were allowed to be creative and do what we wanted. Any design...any color...just pure fun and imagination!

I was really excited about getting my cake started. I wanted something with some color, but different. A lot of my other classmates did topsy turvy cakes with dots,bows, stuff like that. I wanted something a little different. I wanted to incorporate flowers since it is summer and I just absolutely love colorful flowers!
So I decided make flower pots with flowers coming out of them. Once I shaped and torted the cakes I crumb coated them with butter cream.

At the top of each flower pot I cut on a little circle so I can fill it with crushed oreos for dirt. The cakes were covered in modeling chocolate. I never covered anything with modeling chocolate before.

TIP:When covering something with modeling chocolate it isn't like working with fondant, where you can cover it all at once. You have to covered the cake in pieces starting with the top and then the sides.


I really wished I was able to take pictures of this process for you, but I was not able to in my kitchens class.

Then I added a rim around the tops of the cakes to give it definition and covered with edible dust. It turned out awesome! The longest part was covering the cake in the modeling chocolate!

When it came to my flowers, I used Marzipan. I colored the marzipan to my desired colors. Then rolled it out like of you were making a pie crust. Then I used a daisy cookie cutter, and then took my marzipan tools and thinned the flowers out. Then I cupped the flowers so that the edges of the flowers were on the table standing up. Before I started the process I cut floral wire to my desired length and wrapped them in floral tape, and at the bottom of the wire I made a loop.

Once the flowers were somewhat dry, not tooo dry I dipped the loop of the floral is pasteurized egg white...it's used as a glue. I made a small amount of brown marzipan and rolled out medium sized balls. And put them over the round loop. Then I took a flower, I took a paint brush and put a little of egg whites in the middle of the flower. On the opposite side of the loop dip the edge in egg whites and then side the flower up. Turn the flower so that the edges of the petals are supported on the table. Once the flowers are dried you should be able to hold them by the stem you made.

Then I just stuck the flowers in the pots at the very end.


Here are my flower pots!!!




Full view of my flower pots!




The top of my cake!!


I hope you like my cake!!!! I really enjoyed making it!!!!!

Keep posted! I'm in the mood for something with bananas!!!!!!