Biscuiteers Ice-olation Challenge: Lesson Five, Flower Week

Biscuiteers Ice-olation Challenge: Lesson Five, Flower Week - Biscuiteers

This week we've taken inspiration from all of the beautiful blooms popping up around us. We love icing flower biscuits here at Biscuiteers because they can have such lovely intricate designs and vibrant colours. Plus it's the perfect opportunity to make use of all the skills you've learnt so far taking part in the Ice-olation challenge.

In today's lesson we're going to give you some tips and tricks on how to decorate the flowers from our new Spring Flowers DIY kit and then teach you how to create your own flower pot cake - perfect for showcasing your flower biscuits on!
Spring Flower Design Ideas
If you're following along with our Spring DIY kit, you'll already have everything you need. But if not, don't worry - you can still get yourself prepped and ready. You'll just need to bake some chocolate biscuits and have some line icing, piping bags and sprinkles to hand for decorating!

Below, we've given you some step-by-step pictures so you can ice some of our favourite design ideas, dreamed up by our Head Icer Lucy! As you can see in the images below, our top tip is to start from the inside out. That way you'll be able to apply your decorations easily.
Now you've designed your beautiful flowers, why not follow the recipe below to create your own flower pot cake? The perfect way to present your biscuit blooms!
Flowerpot Cake Recipe

ingredients

  • - For the five layer chocolate cake:
  • - 400g caster sugar
  • - 225g plain flour
  • - 65g cocoa powder
  • - 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • - 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
  • - 1 teaspoon salt
  • - 2 eggs – whisked
  • - 200ml milk
  • - 100ml vegetable oil
  • - 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • - 200ml boiling water
  • - For the vanilla buttercream:
  • - 150g unsalted butter – at room temperature
  • - 300g sifted icing sugar
  • - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • - Brown food colouring

serves:12

difficulty:medium

1 hour 30

How to make the buttercream and shape your cake:
Beat the butter for 4-5 minutes until it’s smooth and fluffy.
Slowly add the icing sugar to the butter and continue to beat for a further 2 minutes, add the vanilla and beat until smooth
Now it’s time to add the brown food colouring to create the colour of your terracotta plant pot. Add one drop of the food colouring at a time until you reach your desired colour.
Once the cakes have cooled it is time to spread the buttercream frosting evenly in-between each layer of cake, and then smooth the buttercream around the sides of the cake.
You now want to shape the cake using a sharp knife, you want the smallest layer to be at the bottom and the largest at the top – trimming the edges of the cake until you have created the shape of a flower pot.
How to decorate the cake:
Take your brown buttercream and smooth it around the edge of the cake, creating a ridge at the top for the lip of the plant pot.

Top tip:
Use a pallet knife that you have run under warm water to smooth the buttercream. The warm knife will you give you an extra smooth and professional finish!

Finish off the cake with some beautiful biscuits in the shape of flowers.
We hope you've enjoyed this week's lesson! Don't forget to share your photos with us using the hashtag
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