Cake Decorating With Flowers For Birthdays
Cake decorating with flowers is a time honored way to adorn cakes and no one will argue that done this way, cakes are lovely. Oftentimes however, there is a generic look to cakes decked with flowers. If you want to avoid that and add a more personalized cake, you can go beyond automatically putting roses on top of the cake you are decorating.
Flowers for Different Months of the Year
One way to select the kind of flower you will gild your cake with is to go through the calendar to choose the flower of the month instead. This will provide a fresh touch to your projects.
The flowers January are the snowdrop and the carnation. Snowdrops of course need to be white or creamy white so using them solely on a cake would necessitate a solid background. You might want to experiment with the color garnet as a backdrop since garnet is the designated birthstone for January. Carnations, the other January flower, present no problem because they come in many colors and sizes. A possible approach would be to use both flowers on the birthday cake of someone born in January.
Violets or primroses are the flowers for the month of February. A very dramatic look for a February cake topper might be a posy of primroses or a spray of violets or even a facsimile of a blooming African violet plant, complete with its lush leaves.
March has the daffodil as its flower; April has sweet peas or daisies while May has the lily of the valley. March and April’s flowers come in a wide choice of colors while May’s lily only comes in white. This delicate blossom can be very effectively set up against a background of edible green gems because emeralds are the birthstone for May.
The rose is the flower for June birthday celebrants and this is where your creativity in presentation will take your cake from mundane to awesome. A possible combination might be to create roses lying in a bed of pearls or intertwined with a pearl necklace since pearls are the gem for June.
July’s larkspur and water lily are rarely used for cakes but they would in fact be unique and striking centerpieces. Larkspur is a common name shared by several species; one of which is the spiked delphinium. This stately bloom now comes in shades other than purple and lavender.
You can make a poppy field as an August birthday cake or set a trio of gladiolus spikes tied with a happy birthday ribbon. Indeed, August is one month where you can keep to the flower-of-the-month theme and still engage in an extravagant splash of colors. September, the subsequent month, has the more sedate asters which are no less attractive with their delicate petals and yellow centers. You can also earn your share of appreciation by decorating with a garland of morning glories, the other September blossom.
October’s birthday cake would be dazzling with its display of marigolds which now come in different forms, sizes and colors. Some are double petaled; some are single petaled while some are rounded like mums. There are marigolds in the lightest shades of lemon yellow and in the deepest shades of orange. The possibilities with marigolds have become endless due to advances in horticulture. The same options are available for cakes in the month of November which has the chrysanthemum as its flower.
Finally, there is the December cake which can be gilded with the narcissus. This bulb now comes in so many varieties the hardest part in using it would be choosing which of its varieties to recreate. This is a neutral choice when you do cake decorating with flowers for December because the cake would be acceptable to people of all faiths. The other option is of course to spruce up your cake with the striking poinsettia which is a common symbol for the Christmas season.
Cake decorating with flowers is almost the norm for bakers and cake artists but you can tweak this custom and add your own unique approach by using blooms that show how you invested not only your skill but some reflection into the making of your cake.
