Give mom, or any garden lover, their just dessert -- a sweet bouquet of edible flowers.
| Prep Time: Under 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Pound cake or other loaf-shaped cake
Chocolate frosting Ladyfingers Chocolate wafer cookies Sugar Gumdrops Green toothpicks Kitchen scissors Coconut Green food coloring | |
| Seasons: Mother's day | |
| Materials: food items | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | Ice the top and the sides of the pound cake with chocolate frosting. |
| 2. | Trim the top of each ladyfinger into a point resembling a picket fence. |
| 3. | Gently press the pickets against the frosted sides of the loaf cake. |
| 4. | Seal a handful of chocolate wafer cookies in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. |
| 5. | Sprinkle the crumb "soil" on top of the loaf cake. |
| 6. | Sprinkle sugar onto a waxed-paper-covered surface and, using a rolling pin, flatten gumdrops to a 1/4-inch thickness. |
| 7. | Use kitchen scissors to cut notches in the tops of the flattened gumdrops to create tulip shapes. |
| 8. | Insert a toothpick stem into the base of each blossom. |
| 9. | Make a pair of leaves for each tulip by trimming flattened green gumdrops into teardrop shapes. |
| 10. | Spear the base of each leaf with the toothpick stem and push it halfway up the stem. |
| 11. | Plant the tulips in the cake. |
| 12. | Sprinkle coconut tinted with green food coloring around the garden to resemble grass. |
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