Fun Flowery 1st Birthday Cake Design

by Kay Wallis
(Pennsylvania, USA)

Fun and easy cake to make for any occasion. The hardest part about making this cake would have to be deciding what flavor to make it. (This happens to be a two tier marble cake with butter cream icing.)

I say that because the flowers on this cake are a cinch. I created all of the flowers on this cake with a star tip of three different sizes. (I think that using the different sizes gives the cake more interest than one size flower all around.) The flowers are simply swirls of icing. And the flowers on the side, aren't even swirls.


I just wiggled the cake bag a little bit while I was piping out the icing. The finishing touch that grounds the cake is piping on the leaves with a leaf tip. That's it. If you are not sure about your swirls at first, practice some on a clean flat plate (that way you can scrape it off an use the icing, instead of throwing it away).

One thing to remember...don't get discouraged when all you have on the cake are swirls. I feel this way sometimes before a cake is finished, but after the leaves are on the cake it will look complete. Don't forget, no 1st birthday is complete without the little one making a mess of the cake. I made her her very own 6 inch marble cake.