DIY Cake Flowers From Plastic Straws
If you ever find yourself trying to decorate a cake in say ten minutes, you have come to the right place, as this is my quickest (and maybe even cutest) cake decoration idea yet! All you need are some plastic (or possibly paper) straws and some scissors and a few minutes, and voila, cute cake flowers can transform a simple cake into something gorgeous. I’m not sure how I came up wth this idea as I was literally sweating to get the cake decorated, but I think I must have been inspired by those little vintage style plastic flowers used to hold birthday candles! Now, as you may notice, I am photographing this cake after it was half was eaten, namely a full day after the party, so I put the flowers on the side of the cake for the sake of the photographs, when in actuality the flowers were on top of the cake, which looked a bit more sophisticated than this idea, so keep that in mind! Okay, lets make some plastic cake flowers that one could also use to decorate a fruit platter, or even cupcakes of course!
You’ll Need:
- plastic drinking straws, this may work with paper straws as well
- scissors, small manicure scissors would be preferable, but use what you have on hand
How To:
I made an outer flower, and an inner flower. As you can see below the inner flower held the outer one in place, but this is optional. The inner flower was a folded piece of straw, as I was really rushing. You can likely do an even better job, as will I next time. Can’t wait to develop these cake flowers in the future, and will surely pick up some gold straws when I see them.
