Pink & Gold Flamingo Cake & Party (with Flamingo Cake Topper Tutorial)

This Pink & Gold Flamingo Cake is a perfect spring or summer cake design for a Flamingo Party! I’m also including an (impromptu) Flamingo Cake Topper Tutorial video.

Pink and Gold Flamingo Cake for a Flamingo Party

Last week was a blur. I even missed writing my weekly newsletter last Saturday. Why? Well… I was busy, busy, busy preparing for and hosting my niece Perry’s 5th birthday party! Quite honestly, it didn’t occur to me until Monday (I think it was) that I’d even forgotten the newsletter.

The thing is, I absolutely love hosting parties. Love, love, LOVE it. Our backyard is perfect for things like this and it was ideal for the Flamingo themed party!

Flamingo Party

In fact, one reason we were so thrilled to buy this beautiful big property is so we could have people over all the time. But as much as I love it – this Mommy was exhausted by the time the weekend ended.

Much of Thursday and all of Friday was spent preparing for the party. Cleaning, baking, and cleaning some more (because with 6 kids… it never stays clean for long). Before I knew it, it was party day and I hadn’t started on the cake…

Flamingo Party Balloon Arch

Balloon Display for Flamingo Party with Flamingo Cake Centerpiece

Thanks goodness my sister-in-law and her Mom were doing the party decorating and all the other food or I’d have been a complete failure. And speaking of decorating… they did a fantastic job!! What about that balloon display huh??

Let me back up and say I did have some cake work done.. the cake was baked. It was 4″, 6″‘ and 8″ tiers of this strawberry cake. And thanks to help from Sarah, the tiers were filled and crumb-coated. But decorated? No.

As of Saturday morning at 9am, I had not done a single thing as far as decorating the Flamingo Cake. I hadn’t even made a topper and I knew I wanted a 3-D flamingo topper.

So what’s a girl to do? Throw it into high-gear and get busy, that’s what!

Pink & Gold Flamingo Cake

Pink and Gold Flamingo Cake for Flamingo Party on white cake stand

First, I had to decide on a design and run with it. For the sake of time and ease, I decided on an (almost) all-buttercream cake. The week before I’d done the yellow striped buttercream cake (seen here) and I wanted to try a different technique to get the stripes, so that was my top and bottom tier.

Pink and Gold Gum paste flowers on Buttercream Flamingo Cake

Ariel had told me she wanted the cake to be shades of pink, white and gold with maybe some flowers. Pre-made gum paste flowers are something I keep on hand (a variety of flowers in different shapes and sizes), so I chose a handful of those to add to the cake too.

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Gold drip was added to the solid pink middle tier (although it was a little runnier than I prefer and melted easily) – and painted some of the flowers gold.

Pink and Gold Gum Paste Flowers with Gold Drip on Buttercream Flamingo Cake

I also used Wilton Colormist to spray some of the flowers pink and voila! – I was almost done. Doing all of that took about an hour.

Lastly, I had to get a topper on the cake. Since modeling chocolate is the easiest medium to work with when you need something ready to use quickly, I decided to make the flamingo out of pink modeling chocolate. (Learn more about modeling chocolate in a Modeling Chocolate Magic cake decorating class on Craftsy).

Pink Flamingo Cake Topper on Buttercream Flamingo Cake with Gum Paste flowers

Actually, I had decided about the modeling chocolate first thing that morning (when I was in panic mode) so I made it first and let it be setting up in the fridge while I decorated the cake.

By the time the cake was decorated, the modeling chocolate was ready to work with. After sharing the Flamingo Cake Topper on Facebook, several of you asked for a tutorial, so I actually made a second flamingo on live video. In the end, it was not quite as cute as the first, but you can definitely get the gist of how to make it.

Flamingo Cake Topper Supplies:

Smoothfoam Ball for Modelli...Shop on AmazonDECORA 18 Gauge White Flora...Shop on AmazonMerkens Pink 1#lb BagShop on AmazonGolda's Kitchen Round Cake ...Shop on AmazonPlain Paisley Pattern Cutte...Shop on AmazonAmericolor Soft Gel Paste F...Shop on AmazonJEM Cutters Jem Modelling T...Shop on AmazonWilton Pink Color Mist Food...Shop on AmazonRoyal & Langnickel Majestic...Shop on AmazonPack of 300 Thin Bamboo Ske...Shop on Amazon

Watch the video tutorial here:

Find a little info on the video here in my Facebook group. The short version is, video is way outside my comfort zone and I’m well aware that it’s far from perfect, but if it helps some of you, then my job is done!

Pink and Gold Flamingo Cake for Flamingo Party on Gold Cake Stand

Alrighty – I’m going to share some information about the cake and then we’ll wrap this up!!

Flamingo Cake Details

Okay – that’s all I’ve got for you! If you have questions, leave me a comment below!

Happy Caking!

Rose

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9 Comments

  1. Get outta here!! I cannot believe you hadn’t even started this cake decorating by the day of the party!!!! You GO GIRL!! Absolute LEGEND!!!!! Love! Love! Love! It!! Sooo amazing!! Rose Bakes ROCKS! Xxxx

  2. Would like to know how you did the stripes on the flamingo cake. Is there somewhere on your site that shows how

  3. Did you make the gum paste flowers or by them already made? They are beautiful. The link was for gum paste on Amazon so was wondering if you made those yourself or purchased them from Wholesale Sugar Flowers. GSA has them already made but, I would love to try to do some myself. Thanks for the post the party looks so cute.

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