Nature Themed Cake With Chocolate Leaves Decoration

Make your friends or loved ones something special with this homemade nature themed cake with chocolate leaves decoration.

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I don’t do many recipes and bake cakes but I love beautiful intricacies of nature on cakes that you see in weddings or 5 star restaurants. So I was inspired for Valentines day to make my husband a natures inspired cake with chocolate leaves on it. .

If you want to see my recipe and video on making the chocolate leaves Chocolate Leaves Recipe

What is a Nature Themed Cake

Nature themed cake can be anything you like to design on the cake that depicts nature such as chocolate leaves, seashell and bark from a tree which can be made with icing.

Why You Will Love Nature Themed Cake

• They are pretty easy to make.

• You can pick your favorite nature idea make it part of the topping on the cake.

• Perfect holiday or party dessert.

• You guests will love it.

Ingredients To Make Nature Themed Cake

• 1 cup white sugar 
• ½ cup butter 
• 3 egg whites  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour  
• 1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder 
• ½ cup milk
• Chocolate leaves
• Vanilla icing
• Blackberries

How To Make A Nature Themed Cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9×9 inch round pan.

2. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg white, stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour into the pans. (You will need two pans to make 2 layers.)

3. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven.

Prepare vanilla icing. Place one of the cakes upside down on a plate and spread the icing in the middle over the cake pretty thick. Do not do the sides.

Place the second cake over the icing carefully and cover the top with icing as well.

Next place the chocolate leaves over the top. You can create your own design.

Position the blackberries along the edges of the cake and also place a few on top of the cake.

Not bad for my first cake. I am sure in time each cake I bake will improve. But for now I am pretty happy with the results. I could have added more icing in the middle but my husband doesn’t like to much of it.

Tips of making the nature themed cake

• You will need two cake layers. I used two round pans. When pouring the batter into the pans make sure they are evenly poured into each pan.

• When baking the cakes make sure you don’t open the oven, view everything through the glass. I made the mistake of opening and the cakes collapsed. I had to redo the cakes.

• For chocolate leaves you can use leaf mold as alternative to painting the lemon leaves with chocolate.

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