While these are great summer drink recipes for kids, I’m going to be pulling this page out again later for Christmas parties and for New Years Eve drinks for the kids, too!

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For how pretty this cake looks, it is surprisingly easy. You could also change up the frosting/colored sugar colors to make this flower cake look like a sunflower. Use chocolate sprinkles for the center!

Easy Flower Cake

What You Need to Make This Easy Flower Cake

Flower Cake Pans

A standard round cake pan

Heart mold pan (this one is silicone)

Cake mix or a killer cake recipe

Store bought frosting or a to die for frosting recipe (I kid you not – this frosting is TO. DIE. FOR.)

Colored sugar (or make your own with sugar and food coloring (instructions below), or colored frosting)

Zippered plastic bags to make colored sugar, or to use instead of a pastry bag.

Optional - shallow 3″ round cake mold for leaves (you can also just halve a heart cupcake for the same effect)

Optional - pastry bag

How to Make this Flower Cake

Simply mix up your cake batter, and cook it in the following molds:

1 round cake form.

12 heart cupcakes, filled low so that they don’t lose their shape and pop over the top of the pan.

2 shallow round cakes, or two more heart cupcakes, cut in half to make 4 leaves.

You should have enough with one cake mix. But I used both chocolate and vanilla cake for mine, because a large family is hard to please with one flavor!

Once complete, your cooked cake pieces should look like this:

Unfrosted Flower Cake

I then frosted only the tops of the cake pieces. For the yellow center, you could use yellow frosting, or I frosted mine with regular white frosting, then dusted it heavily with colored yellow sugar. Do this before you put the leaves and petals on the plate.

How to Make Colored Sugar

This is so easy you probably don’t need directions. Put about a cup of sugar into a zippered plastic bag, and add a few drops of food coloring. Give it to the kids to play with as they mix the coloring with the sugar. Add different colors mixed together to get various shades of yellow and green, or whatever color you want to make! Add more food coloring as necessary to get your desired color saturation.

WARNING: Even if you put a whole bottle of red food coloring into the bag, it will not be as red as the colored sugar you can buy in the  store.

Yes, I found that one out the hard way.

Flower Cake Assembly

To make the flower cake leaves, frost the tops of your half rounds, or half hearts. Then dip the tops into colored sugar. Again, you could just use green frosting for this part as well. I just had the colored sugar leftover from Christmas and really needed a reason to use it up!

Put the heart petal shapes around the cake before you frost them.

To pipe the frosting onto the flower petals, you could use a pastry bag with a fluted tip. I couldn’t find mine and was in a HUGE rush to finish. So I just used a zippered plastic bag with the corner cut off.

WARNING: DO NOT use cheap zipper bags for this. They pop open. The good news is that if this happens, it’s fairly easy to dump the frosting into another bag. And then pray that one doesn’t break, either.

Yes, I found that one out the hard way, too.

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When cooking with peanut butter, I recommend using an all-natural variety so that you can limit the added sugars and fats. I used to have the hardest time finding natural peanut butter, but these days most grocery stores carry several brands. Santa Cruz Organics sent me some samples over the summer that would be perfect (if only they were still around in my house – my hubby is a peanut butter freak!).

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