Showing posts with label sugar flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sugar flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Baskets and daffodils

I finally used some of the sugar flowers I've been working on. I practiced some flowers I haven't posted and decided to show them off on my new cake creation.
As you can see the cake is different from my usual smoothed out butter cream. This cake is basket weaved.




There are a number of ways to do a basket weave with the "old school" way using a flat tip with one serrated edge. To look more like an Easter basket would. I chose to use a large star tip to give it a fluffy look. This takes much more icing and probably not something you would want to serve at a kids party, however I did hear a study that sugar doesn't cause children to be hyper.
The daffodils are made from royal icing that I made myself. I made the flowers last week and allowed them to dry. There are some butter cream stems and leaves added as well. I tinted my butter cream with Wilton icing color lime green.




The filling of this white cake is raspberry. I know most people would pair that with chocolate but I thought the flavor combination of the raspberry, white cake, and sweet butter cream was wonderful.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Just a spoonful of Sugar

O.K. O.K. so it takes much more then a spoonful to make these wonderful creations, but it is pretty much just sugar.

I started learning the ropes of sugar flowers recently and I have to say that I am in love. I have always had a thing for flowers, and I absolutely love that the delecacy of the petals can carry over into sugar.

 The apple blossoms, blue rose and primrose are made from homemade royal icing. They were left out to harden and are now ready to adorn a cake.

The button flower ( lower right) and pansies are made from a fondant/gumpaste combination that were also left out to harden. The sugar flowers ( the ones made from royal icing) have a longer shelf life then the fondant/gum paste flowers, however both are wonderful to put on cakes or cupcakes.

The sugar flowers as i said are more delicate because you are able to make the petals so thin. If you notice on the pansies, there is a slight "curl" in the petals and they are paper thin. A very neat trick I think.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Upcoming Creations

I have been working very hard lately on a new tecnique. Well, new for me anyway. SUGAR FLOWERS!

I have made a few roses, some rose blossoms and a few more flowers. Pictures to come very soon.

I also have a cake I just finished that I surprised myself with because it came out just beautiful. Stay tuned!