Secret Garden Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

This Secret Garden Cake is a basic idea but you can modify it however you want with different lollies and ideas. Great for a quick and easy cake. Lots of fun if your kids are into jelly lollies!

Ingredients (serves 10)

Rectangle cake
Chocolate or other flavour icing
Smarties
Maltesers
Jelly babies
Lolly snakes
Lolly frogs
Green food coloring
Shredded or decicated coconut

Method

Ice cake you can buy it or make it.
Mark out your path with smarties
Mark out your pond and garden, you can do this with smarties or m & ms too if you would prefer. If you want to you can put blue icing or jelly in the pond.
Dye coconut and spread as grass
Place flowers in garden, it's done with smarties here but you can buy them or make them however you want.
Place your maltesers and jelly babies in location of your choice and it's complete.

19 Comments

- - Frankiielot said
  - 05 Aug 2022
    11:16 pm
Love how this is decorated! Best thing is it’s chocolate cake.
Honestly wish I was more creative with these sorts of things.

- - cassy26 said
  - 11 Jul 2022
    9:28 am
This is very cute. Love the frog in the pond…

- - caramello said
  - 29 Sep 2021
    11:16 am
such a great cake idea

- - shanika said
  - 04 Oct 2019
    9:10 am
Wow. Nice effort.It’s good to serve as a birthday cake.

- - mom129591 said
  - 05 Jul 2019
    10:57 pm
A very clever idea! I like the snake. Thank you fro sharing.

- - mom62624 said
  - 29 Apr 2019
    4:56 pm
A fun idea, thanks.

- - P&M'smum said
  - 13 Apr 2019
    6:22 am
Such a good idea, the kids can decorate with their favourite lollies and customize the cake.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 10 Apr 2019
    7:18 am
Looks delicious and sweet thanks a great base recipe to decorate how you like

- - Kate Sander said
  - 02 Apr 2019
    9:59 pm
I saw this cake and the title and thought I have to click on this. This looks delicious and I think my two young daughters would help make and eat this cake.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 31 Mar 2019
    3:10 pm
What a beautiful cake it looks amazing well done

- - mom93821 said
  - 29 Mar 2019
    6:43 am
Thank you for sharing your fabulous looking Secret Garden cake – it is creative and beautiful.

- - Mum2archer said
  - 28 Mar 2019
    2:55 pm
So cute and the kids are sure to love it!

- - mom81879 said
  - 28 Mar 2019
    10:43 am
This cake looks so good! Love how it can be more personalised by adding lollies of your choice. Kids will love it!
- becstalou replied
  
  28 Mar 2019 , 11:43 pm
  Kids in our family are definitely most impressed by their favourite lollies being included.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    30 Mar 2019 , 6:13 am
    
    It would be a sure hit in our family too!
- - taynik46 said
  - 27 Mar 2019
    10:12 pm
what a great cake for any age birthday – love it – thank you for sharing

- - mom112217 said
  - 27 Mar 2019
    3:34 pm
A fabulous cake any child would love!

- - MrsA said
  - 27 Mar 2019
    8:48 am
This looks great. I love home decorated cakes!
- becstalou replied
  
  27 Mar 2019 , 1:20 pm
  Thanks we love making them and I love how you can personalize them to make them more special.