This Valentine’s Day cake in style of this Flower Box Cake is a truly unique gift! If you’ve already seen the infinity flowerbox then you’ll recognize this hat box flower cake as well. The taste is insanely delicious as well; an easy lotus biscoff cake recipe consisting of moist cake layers including biscoff cookies, a buttercream with the lotus biscoff spread and even more lotus cookies for the crunchiness! A thin layer of chocolate represents the cake flower bouquet box and for the flowers I’ve used colored Russian frosting. It’s a bit of an effort, but totally worthwhile for the taste and especially as a Happy Valentine Day cake or as a Happy Mothers Day Cake.
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How to make a Flower Box Cake – Italian Meringue Frosting
I’m showing you how to make a Mother’s Day Cake in just a few steps! There are many flower cake box cake designs, but for this one I used an Italian Meringue frosting which works best for this cake bouquet box. This frosting consists mainly of egg white and sugar, but it’s really easy to make, it is very important though to follow the steps precisely in order to have the piped flowers stay firm.
Egg white, sugar, gelling or jam sugar and water are required for this frosting. Bring water with equal parts sugar and jam sugar to a boil and measure the temperature with a thermometer. At 110°C / 230°F you can start whipping the egg whites and once sugar syrup is at 120°C / 248°F the egg whites should have stiff peaks, then slowly add the sugar syrup while stirring the egg whites. Continue whipping the frosting until it becomes meringue and has come down to room temperature.
This frosting is perfect for piping flowers and for this Valentine’s Day cake decorating ideas, as it was partially made with gelling or jam sugar and therefore it remains perfectly firm. The last step is to add food coloring to the frosting.
Flower Box Cake Ideas – Chocolate Border
There are plenty Valentine’s Day Cake recipes out there, but this one is truly unique and actually easy to make because no fondant is required, instead dark chocolate and parchment paper. First, the finished Flower Cake Box should be chilled. For the chocolate border measure the height from bottom to the beginning of the dome, because the roses are on the dome and there we won’t need the chocolate border.
Cut a strip of parchment paper for the measured height, in my case it was 12cm / 4.7 inch. Place this strip on another large piece of parchment paper to prevent everything from getting dirty then evenly spread out the melted chocolate on it. Carefully pick up the parchment paper strip and place it around the cooled cake and smoothen it out.
This is how we create the best Valentine Day cake design. To finalize the Valentine’s Day Cake boxes style I cut out another small strip of parchment paper, repeated the last step and placed it to the bottom so that it looks like the lid of the flower cake box.
Easy Biscoff Cake Recipe
The Valentine’s Day cake flavors are amazing; for this one I put together a very delicious combination of a lotus cake recipe. Biscoff cake, what is it? Let’s find out here:
Cake Layers: many Mothers Day cake recipes are made with red velvet cake, but what is better than soft cake layers made with oil and lotus biscoff cookies! Maybe you’re wondering what does biscoff cake taste like? Well it’s a delicious caramel and cinnamon taste that is unique! I finely ground the Biscoff biscuits and add them to the cake batter and the result is incredibly delicious!
Lotus Biscoff Buttercream: How to make a Biscoff cake filling? It’s a very simple buttercream, simply mix together cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and the delicious Lotus Biscoff spread or cookie butter. It is important that all ingredients are at room temperature.
Lotus Biscoff Cookies: What is Biscoff cake we clarified by now and to top this Biscoff cake off, I’m adding crushed Biscoff cookies in between the cake layers and the buttercream for the crunch. This is how to make a Lotus Biscoff cake design.
Valentine’s Day Cake Ideas
To assemble this flower box birthday cake or Valentine’s Day cake design or even Mothers Day cake design, we first spread the buttercream on the chilled cake layers. This is definitely one of the best Valentine day cake ideas. The next step is to spread the crushed cookies on top and repeating this step several times.
For this Mothers Day cake decorations we’re creating a dome, cut the last two cake layers into smaller circles, then cover the cake with the remaining buttercream. I’m telling you, one of the best Happy Mother’s Day cake recipes! Before continuing with the chocolate border, important to cool the cake well. Once the chocolate borders are done we’re piping the flowers on the dome as in many Mother’s Day cake ideas. And then it’s ready to be enjoyed!
