Quick and Seasonal Cake Decorating - decorating with flowers

What a fantastic idea!! It came out really pretty!

Thanks, Cindy! I love the combination of flowers and herbs!

Beautiful, Katrina! A very nice idea!

Thanks, Sonia! I can only imagine what your Hawaiian flowers would look like on this cake!

That is really lovely. The little vase is a great idea!

cool

Um, what's a tussie mussie?

Thanks, KM, glad you like it!

And thanks for stopping by, Lora!

Shannon - a tussie-mussie is an old-fashioned term for a little bouquet of flowers and herbs. In the old days, certain flowers had certain meanings - love, jealousy, anger, affection, admiration - so bouquets often conveyed a secret meaning.

I love doing this with the cakes I present as gifts. Yours is absolutely lovely! I wish I could catch a whiff of the aroma.

very beautiful idea, and the golden crusted cake looks picture perfect.

very good idea!

Many thanks, Mme D! I'm still tinkering with the recipe, but must say this cake, plain, is over the moon toasted! I'd love to see how you decorate your cakes.....

Thank you, Dalal - delighted you enjoyed the photos!

Thanks for stopping, David! I've been decorating with flowers forever! That's what I love about summer in the Northeast - all the flowers and herbs......

Looks great, seems good with a mint cholate drinks...

Wait... I think the design is obliterating the cake and also the preparation and process upon the eating time, hmmm...would any of you think likewise.

Well, I guess the large design work will do for the novelty essentials-- just another perpective, while in reality somehow I find it a bit large and anticipatingly messy too...

But surely the CAKE is A HEART DELIGHT with a cool chocolate drinks and followed by a distilled water serve in a glass with/out rocks...

KATRINA - You know I could be mistaken for my artistic judgements yet I can attest to say, I have some sort within me a God-complex in many things--given the time...

Hello Machiavelli - I think what you're saying is it looks large and messy - am I right? That's very okay because it's the spirit of summer informal!
I'm not sure a God-complex is one to be encouraged! I think humility has its merits....

Way to go, Katrina! You're featured on the Gather home page today! Love that little "tussie mussie," and the photos are gorgeous. Congrats!

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know, Aaron! Today's my babysitting my granddaughter day, so I probably wouldn't have known.....

great idea..I love it!

Just lovely. But can I have flowers and frosting? : )

Just a wonderful idea when you are trying to cut out so much of the sugar by not putting on the frosting.

Katrina - If I am wrong then my use of the the term God-complex would be vainful to say... but if I am right atleast to say I am... I am to honor to God because I am right, yet if I am wrong in doing so then I have to face the consequences of my actions even it the judgements was by my thoughts...

And yet I say the CAKE is good and presented well...

And the photos are quite gorgeous...

Wait to have your artistic pride back... I just reasoned out another way to somehow correct or most proper to state the complete aesthetic presentation--

The problem is being messy on the serving while to say it is also very artistic and quite balance in a way...

So I just concluded the if you glued or somehow binded the decors in groups to be a group or with stick cushioned in a cake artistically... it thus eliminate the problem of being messy as a preparation is concern and the novelty essentials for the matter...

My comment is to have your pride back without being prejudicial cause it is also ''good'' and artistic... saving the beholders definition of your quality propositions..

So the NOVELTY ESSENTIALS and ARTISTIC preparation upon eating the CAKE shall rise up to an ''appreciated percentage'' and a heart delight...


KATRINA - hmmm... I also find the given cake artistically made just like the others...

Thanks, Sallie!

Farmgirl - I'm with you! Ummmmm, coconut or lemon?

Renae - absolutely! Cutting out sugar doesn't mean you have to have a naked cake! Thanks for stopping!

machiavelli - I'll take your second comment and feel at least the photos were appreciated!

That looked really pretty.

Katrina--I love tussie mussies. When my daughter got married, all the children got them...so dear. However, what I am most interested in is Coconut cake without the frosting. I love pound cake, toasted with guava jelly with my coffee or tea. This would be even better. Are you going to post the recipe?

Thanks , Christine! Appreciate your stopping by!

Hi Linda - that is such a sweet idea - tussie-mussies for a wedding! I'm going to tuck that idea away for later.
About the coconut cake - it IS a pound cake- absolutely right - but not quite where I want it to be. I'm working on the recipe. Right now, I'm thinking some rosewater or orange flower water to go with the coconut. I'll post it as soon as I feel it's a good recipe. Many thanks for your interest!

Katrina - thanks for the educational cake...