Birthday cake: make it with flowers!

Flowers are quite versatile in terms of usage. Outside the traditional vase design, there are plenty of options that will allow you to practice your creative skills. A birthday cake made of fresh flowers is a fun project to make and will for sure, be greatly appreciated by anyone who receives it as a gift. You may not be able to eat it but rest assured, a floral cake is a real treat for the eye and the soul.

The featured design in this article, is lovely birthday floral cake in pastel tones. Depending on the event, you can easily change the “look” of this cake by using different colors. Although kermit poms only come in green, standard carnations and spray roses are available all year long in many different color and shade. 

This floral arrangement is really easy to make and only requires 4 types of flowers that are widely available. So next time you have a birthday celebration, why not surprise your family and friends with this gorgeous flower cake?

Carnations create a frosting-like texture on the side of the cake


Playing with the stems height creates an interesting depth


The cymbidium orchid adds a touch of elegance to the design

Birthday Flower Cake

½ Oasis foam
25 pink carnations
10 stems of green kermit poms
3 stems of yellow spray roses
1 cymbidium orchid

Soak your Oasis and shape it to make it round. The top of a 1-pint ice cream container can help you to perfectly shape your Oasis.

Starting at the bottom, create two concentric rows with the carnations. Each row will require approximately 10 carnations. Cut each stem about 3” long and make sure to “fluff” the carnation head before inserting at least 2” of the stem in the foam. Push the flower head with your fingers around the calyx area to securely place the flower as close as possible to the Oasis. When creating the 2nd row, insert each flower in between the flowers of the 1rst row, to avoid any gaps. 

Now it is time to start working on the top of the cake. Place your cymbidium orchid on one side, and pavé the top with Kermit poms. Create a line, slightly off center with the spray roses, and continue that line on each side of the cake. Place kermit poms of different height on the top part, along the spray rose’s line and around the cymbidium orchid. Finish your cake by placing kermit poms in twos, on the side of the cake to accentuate the movement created by the spray rose’s line. 

Place the birthday floral cake on a cake pedestal. If you are creating this arrangement well before the event, make sure to add some water at the base of your arrangement.

Notes:

1) You can add some candles on your cake

2) Another idea would be to create a Biedermeier design by organizing concentric rows on the top of the cake (ex: 1 row of kermit poms and 1 row of spray roses, with the Cymbidium in the center)

3) A special thanks to Gail Call, AIFD that demonstrated this design in the certificate program she teaches at Golden West College.