Mandy Merriman

White daisies meet sprinkles here with the easiest chocolate melt flower cake to date! Melt your melting chocolate in a glass bowl in the microwave for a minute, or use a melting pot to slowly melt that chocolate to an almost liquid state. Place a little bit of the chocolate on the knife, either with a spoon or by dunking the knife into the chocolate. Hope you all have a fun week, and make sure to tag #bakingwithblondie when you make these fun chocolate flower cakes so I can see what you're up to!

The light pink ones, the angelic white ones, the dark pink ones, and especially the coral ones always steal my attention right away with their large soft blooms. To begin the peony, I started off with the skinnier spoon pedals - the light pink ones. Next, I surrounded the light pink ones with the darker pink colored ones in this pattern above. Fill each spoon with melted chocolate, then place on the prepped parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

All my favorite childhood Peanut Butter & Honey Sandwich flavors packed into one lovely cake - taken up a notch with the extra roasted flavor from fresh honey roasted peanut butter. Soft peanut butter honey flavors, peanut butter honey buttercream, honey roasted peanuts, and a drizzle of straight up honey to make that ever-familiar honey-crunch taste adorn this new favorite of ours! While developing this recipe, I used my usual original peanut butter cake recipe (will be in my 2019 cookbook), but made a few adjustments. I fell hard for the fresh honey roasted peanut butter at Harmon's (local grocery store), and knew it HAD to be in this cake asap.

Cinco de Mayo has a lot of Mexican history attached to it, but the celebration has evolved into that of bright colors and plenty of Mexican food in my neck of the woods. I wanted to make something for Cinco de Mayo this year that involved carrying my favorite Mexican food (tacos) into a cupcake. We had so much fun making these little edible tacos, and also filling our cupcakes with a surprise (sprinkle pinata, anyone! ? ). You're all set for frosting your cupcake, and making those cute little tacos to go on top!