A very girly treat...iced rose petal cake

Well I went to bed with snow on the ground and following a good nights rain with the sun out and the birds tweeting outside it is positively spring like.  The bulbs are once again poking their heads out of the ground, and the hellebores are waiting to open in all their glory.

Yesterday you saw the crystallized roses, and today (in between watching the Australian Open tennis - bad luck Andy) I made Kathy Brown's Iced Rose Petal Cake.

Kathy Brown has a garden not a million miles from where I live and opens it up every year, this year I am definitely going to go...it rained heavily the last time I attempted it  Aside from having a wonderful garden, she bakes lovely things using flowers. 

This is a pure afternoon treat, so here adorned with crystallized pink roses, and draped on the cake stand with fresh pink roses and dendrobium orchids here it is.

Dad is on his way round for a couple of slices as they missed out on the victoria sponge yesterday.

 

For details of Kathy Brown's Iced Rose Petal Cake her book Edible Flowers is available through her website.

 

For details of Kathy's garden visit her website at  http://kathybrownsgarden.homestead.com

 

Tonight we are having her Sitr-Fried Duck with Day Lily recipe which we will feature the result of in a future post......something to look forward to.