Flowers by 1800Flowers - Birthday Flower Cake - Green and Yellow

EXCLUSIVE Our signature floral birthday cake may look good enough to eat, but it's actually crafted from fresh mini carnations and poms, and can last for days after their celebration is complete. Now with a new green and yellow recipe. Fresh, hand-crafted cake-shaped arrangement of mini carnations and cushion poms in floral foam, topped with a single rose Includes a cake skirt, candles and a bakery box where available Arrangement measures approximately 7"H x 8"D Our florists select the freshest flowers available so floral colors and varieties may vary What's The Story? Flowers and cake have been the go-to-gift for birthdays and special events dating all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. Our signature floral birthday cake marries these two popular, age-old traditions with a bold new twist. The Birthday Flower Cake is the most popular birthday gift 1-800-Flowers has ever designed! Celebrate their big day in unique style with our Birthday Flower Cake and watch them enjoy some calorie-free fun! The History of the Birthday Flower Cake An excerpt from Jim McCann's book, Stop and Sell the Roses The No-Calorie Layer CakeThe Birthday Flower Cake One of our best money-making ideas came from a bull session on one of my trips. We had visited a number of our BloomNet florists. BloomNet is a nationwide network of 2,500 flower shops that we have handpicked to fulfill our orders. They have the right customer service attitude and take service seriously. As we talked with florists in a number of towns, I kept hearing the same message: "We want to be able to do something more with our craft capability." It made sense, come to think of it: if you are in the flower business, the odds are you have an artistic bent. You want to do something more than wrap up a dozen roses and send them out with the driver. One night, toward the tail end of the trip, I brought up this subject with a group of florists. It just so happened that Lily Buckland, one of our fulfilling florists near Denver

This was a very last minute order for a Baby Shower. I made it with orange sponge, and orange and vanilla buttercream and jam filling. The cake also has polka dots around the sides, finished off with a ribbon.

This picture doesn't do the cake any real justice... The writing is not black!! It's a deep violet... Courtesy of my friend Anupma. I do add a disclaimer with this colour combination!!