I decided to make this out of bread and peanut butter and coconut and dried blueberries.



First I cut out flower and petal shapes out of bread.



Then I decorated the flowers with dried coconut and dried blueberries!


Food Flower Pics

Materials used


halfway there!


The finished product!

Sorry if the images are a bit blurry i was using my fine, trying to hold both items up is harder than you think :p

Chocolate Stylestia Cupcake flowers

I am just going to say now, this was seriously a big experiment for me, I decided to try a technique I have seen on line, Only from pictures! Yup! I'm crazy. I have melted a bit of chocolate in my time but not these melties, learning curve but I'll try them again any day.

So here is all the stuff.. minus spoons, I used a LOT of plastic spoons


Here are my baked cupcakes/ flower pots


and here we see ONE batch of a million little petals, I did three batches, realized a bit late I was missing green (doh) so no leaves.


Here are the pots with front details


and with soil


and here are the finished flowers, I tried to get a mess of different flowers from the fest, You may notice a Hydrenga, a Chrysanthimum, a Lily, and a Delphinium. Some look more like there stylestian counter parts than others.


Much prettier above view:


100% edible and my girls will be enjoying them later tonight :)

So, I am Arizona so i thought it would be funny to play off the stereotype that we don't have anything but dirt and cacti :P So here, my Saguaro Cactus (and it's abnormally large flower that was a last minute addition xD)

These are the materials for the cake decorations. I made guides with pen and paper so I could quickly gauge how large to make the petals for my flower.



I melted chocolates and created flower petals on wax paper. The petals were placed in the bowls to give them a nice rounded shape for a more 3D effect. It took a long time to decide on how to craft these. I tried a knife, a spoon, a fork - but ultimately a toothpick and fingers were the best tool to get the job done! They are really fragile though and break easily once you take them off the wax paper. 6 of each petal size were made (petal sizes being 4 inches, 3 inches, and 2 inches).



Here are all the finished petals next to my fondue pot. I must have broken at least a dozen petals trying to pull them off the wax paper. I was so thankful to be finished. ^^"



Here are the supplies used to make the cake.



I cut away at the edge of the cake when layering them so it would be nice and crumbly on the edges. Then I put my icing in the microwave and poured it over the cake to give it an illusion of looking like potting soil. I crafted leaves in a similar fashion to the petals from more melting chocolates in order to give the cake a nice color and accent. I used some leaves from our bushes outside for a reference. Tips of the leaves were placed against another object as they dried to give them a curl effect.



I then assembled the chocolate petals on top on the cake and secured them with more melting chocolate. I used tiny edible sugar pearls on the top of the cake to give the center of the flower a cute finish. Pearls were also added to the "dirt" like plant food you might add in a garden. The leaves lined the side of the cake.



And then comes the feels bad moment when you realize someone found the same chocolate flower tutorial as you the prior year after you've made the thing. :$

My attempt at a flower made with an apple and cherries. I tried to make it look like the tail of an Aeridini.

This flower/salad is wholly edible. I do not like how it tastes (Yes, I sampled all of it). If you don't believe me, here's what I used and see for yourself on Google. Plantains (not the banana thing), purslane, dandelion greens, wood sorrel, dandelion flower, willow bark, mulberries, and a peppermint candy!

After the first foraging run, the humble beginning.

Used up everything, this happened.

The final product looks good enough to eat (not!)

Note the peppermint :P

I forgot to take a picture while baking the cake, so I had to just take pictures of making the icing... and it some of them are kind of blurry, but either way, here it is!