Here Come the Sun Week! Let's Bake a Sun Cake!!!!

In celebration of of our up coming summer solstice, the girls and I decided to create a sun inspired cake! It was wonderful to bring this sunshine to life ( especially since today was a quite the grey rainy day). I wanted to come up with a cake that was simple and delicious ~ This cake seemed to fit that desire and it is my joy to share...

For this sweet sunshine treat you will need

vanilla organic cake mix (or any cake that you choose to use) ~ I needed quick and easy : )

eggs

safflower oil

milk (we used rice)

lemons to squeeze ~ we made our icing lemon infused to add a little zing!

icing sugar 

butter

edible flowers ~ if you have them around

and I shall share the secret of yellow icing without chemicals...turmeric! It works wonderful and the taste is hidden beneath the lemon and the sweetness. 

we baked our two round cakes ~ can't you just see the excitement brewing...

we then froze them overnight to make the icing easier and the cutting cleaner (avoiding the crumbling)

and then cut one of our circle cakes like this... 

then assembled our pieces as such...

 we picked some ~ oh so juicy ~ wild strawberries to adorn our cake...

 and I think perhaps ate more than we put into the bucket (isn't that half the fun!!!)

We gathered daisies asking them to shine on our cake, sampled daisy petals and picked wild flower bouquets...

 

and then proceeded with much joy in creating...

Our Sunshine Cake 

topped with the pretty faces of Ms. Marigold, Ms.Pansy, Ms.Violet and 

Ms. Wild Stawberry...

sending out a warm, radiant, glow of sunshine to you...

~ Shanti ~