Sunday Sweets to Put a Spring in Your Step
March 20, 2011 Today is the first day of Spring! Time to celebrate all the verdant vivaciousness of the season with a charming cornucopia of fabulous flowers!
Baker unknown - anyone recognize it?
I love the colors! And that harlequin pattern is one of the smoothest I've ever seen.
And here's one of the best support columns I've ever seen:
Submitted by Promise W.; made by Sugarland[Update: Eagle-eyed reader Jim A. just pointed out the column is actually this resin cake stand. Now I feel silly. It's still a gorgeous cake, though!]
This one, too, if you have topsy-turvy dreams:
Sub'd by Vanessa M., made by Ron Ben-Israel (?)
Or, if you're feeling a little blue:
Imagine the time it took to make each of those little flowers! And I love the textured icing here; sometimes the smoothness of fondant is just a little too modern.
And finally, let's go out with a bang.
Meaning more daisies.
WANT.
I mean, I know this was for a pair of one-year-olds, but a thirty-something can have one, too, right?
Right?
Reader Comments (64)
So BEAUTIFUL!
I'll be happier that spring is here when the weather gets the memo.
@Anonymous @ 4:04, I second.
@John (thoJ), couldn't agree more. Wreck on!
@diddleymaz, I could comment on the misspelling of 'really', but I forebear to nitpick.
That is all.
Gorgeous cakes! But it's not textured icing, on the one where you mention it - it's piped scrolly flowers and leaves. Zoom in! Seems a shame to ignore a nice bit of piping work....
the Mini Daisies cake may be my favorite of all time. so darling!
I LOVE the last cake! I want it for my thirty-something birthday this year! :)
Gorgeous cakes!
@Craig.... Booyah! :)
Love all the gorgeous flowers! Even better looking than real!
I almost hate that the last cakes were wasted on 1 year olds who won't even remember them :P
John (husband of Jen, noble defender of CW), I could sooo kiss you (out of gratitude!) for putting nitpickers in their place. If this were a horticultural forum, then I could understand posting a correction for those who mistake certain sunflowers for daisies, but since this is a humor forum, let's make it more about humor, less about nitpicking. (And here in the States, I can't imagine wagging my finger at every florist I meet to tell him/her that their display of "Gerbera daisies" is technically not a daisy but a genus of the sunflower family. Whew!)
the number of times the word "daisy" got mentioned at the beginning of the post, I thought it was John posting again about all the various lovely "daisies" found on cakes.
Cool! The bakery unknown green one in the net is me! May or may not be confusion with a recent name change; that cake was made when I went by She Takes The Cake at www.shetakesthecake.com but now it is Nonpareils at www.nonpareilscake.com. This was the original She Takes The Cake in New York. Glad you liked the cake and thrilled to have a second cake posted on your Sunday Sweets!
Thank for cheering up my Wednesday. Yeah, I know you posted this on Sunday but this made Wednesday happier too.
Hi! The four tier yellow cake with the gorgeous support column was from our local bakery Sugarland, here in Chapel Hill, NC! You can see the post on their facebook page here - https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=433657&id=50370380327#!/photo.php?fbid=10150162699690328&set=a.10150194726460328.433657.50370380327&theater Hope this helps put credit where credit is truly due! :)
Yellow cake with the small daisies is the opposite of my wedding cake! I had a white cake with yellow daisies! :D SO CUTE! I just love it, and I think it is a pretty popular design!