Succulents & Cacti Marshmallows in Butter Cake Pot

 I made this for my dad's birthday this year!

Made another simpler cake for my uncle's birthday too!

Both my dad and uncle love a little bit of gardening so I thought this theme is just right for them. The old school butter cake recipe can be found in this blog post. I included some prebiotic soluble fibres to make it healthier.

The succulents and cacti are made out of zephyrs, an agar-based marshmallow. Instead of using fresh egg whites, I used meringue powder. Those of you who bought my Deco Marshmallows book may be pleased to know using meringue powder works just as well! Please refer to this reel for the substitution and some visuals:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ttcPrBzRa/?igsh=M2NycjdyNGRzYjgz

The zephyrs are coloured with a combination of matcha powder and gel food colouring.

Here are some pictures to share...

Piped marshmallows 

Butter cake pot with chopped toasted almond slices as the "soil"

A slice of the cake!

Dad posing with a cactus!

This is the reel with snippets of piping the succulents:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAN_8s2y-Px/?igsh=MW5sbWg5YTZnanllMg==

Both Dad and Uncle loved the cakes!

with lots of love,

Phay Shing

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Chiffon Succulent Cake

My healthier chiffon version of a Succulent cake with no cream! Do you like it?

The cake is made entirely from chiffon cake, including the pot and the succulents. The 'pot' is made from baking vanilla-chocolate chiffon cake in a ball cake pan. The bigger pointed succulents were made my cutting sheet cakes into a long zigzag and then rolling them up. The skinnier spiny ones were by stacking snowflakes from chiffon cakes. The long stems at the back were from piping chiffon sheet cakes with light and dark lines and then cutting them out. The flowers were cut using flower cutters and then rolling up the flowers. The stones were cut from chiffon thick cakes.

Do you like pink or white?

The spiny succulents can be found in my Tri-flavour earth tone chiffon cake in my newest book Deco Chiffon Cake Basics (cover below) too. 

Hope you like my humble creation!

With lots of love,
Susanne

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