Look at these little flowers, so sunny and pretty! Turns out they are made out of dried fresh pineapple, which sounds so much more appealing than food dye Yellow No. 5, doesn't it? Read on to find out how they were made.
How To Make Dried Pineapple Flowers
We discovered this Hummingbird Cake with the decorative pineapple flowers at blog Axis of Ævil. She explains that the pineapple flowers were discovered via Martha Stewart, and that even though they are time-consuming, they are quite easy.
Basically, you dry out fresh pineapple slices in the oven. When they are very dry, you can cut the slices into flower shapes.
• Get the recipe here: Hummingbird cake and dried pineapple flowers
Related: How To Frost a Layer Cake
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Wow, those are just beautiful!
view Brooklynnina's profile
Is the middle of the flower part of the pineapple as well?
view SoSue's profile
Those are awesome!
view VeryDelishVeg's profile
what cute cake!!! I'd love a piece of it right now ;)
view orchidgirl1979's profile
I love this idea! I'm going to make them or sure - can you imagine them on top of a coconut cupcake?
view Dana McCauley's profile
SoSue, I'm guessing the centers are the core of the pineapple.
This is darling and it makes me want to go bake a cake right now!
view Tiamat_the_Red's profile
The center looks like little jelly candies to me.
view practicallydone's profile
absolutely beautiful! I second the coconut cake idea!!
view sophisticatedsoul's profile
Beautiful! I am so making this recipe as cupcakes this week.
view suthernbell's profile
This is fantastic and I loved scanning the blog of Axis.
view Kate (NC)'s profile
suthernbell -- I love the cupcake idea, I think I'll make some too !!!
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