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Friday, 10 May 2013

Fondant White flower Tutorial

Fondant or gum paste flowers,strawberry and leaves as cake toppers for a strawberry shortcake themed birthday cake
Fondant Flowers as cake toppers

    This a very simple flower that can be used to make either big or small in size, and with different colours will give a very elegant look to your cake as a cake topper. such a simple way to enhance your cake.


Tips n Tricks :


Always try to grease your hands with shortening before modelling the flowers.
If you find cracks on the fondant try to knead it a little by greasing your palm with shortening and then keep on rolling it in your palm to form a ball until all the cracks over it have vanished.

If you find the gum paste or the fondant very sticky and soft dust with cornstarch.

Always rub the edgess of the cut pieces with your fingers to remove all the roughed edges.


Materials needed:


Large flower cutter or use a sketch of flower on thick paper
White fondant
Yellow fondant
Rounding tool
Small scissors
Foil
Cup or bowl  to air dry the flowers
Cornstarch for dusting work surface
Crisco

Method :

Step 1

Roll the fondant thin and using a large flower cookie cutter, cut the flower shape. If you dont have one, just draw a flower as big as needed on a card sheet, cut this and use as template guide on the rolled fondant. Now using a small knife cut the shape on the fondant. dont worry if you are not good at drawing, this is a very easy sketch and no petal needs to be unique as in a cooke cutter.








Step 2
Since we need to have petals using a small scissors give small cut at the end of every curve, towards the center of the flower.


Step 3
Slowly rub the edges with your fingers to remove any roughed edge




Step 4
Now dust the work surface with cornstrach and slowly run the ball tool over the petal inside out from the center to thin down the petals. You can see in the picture below how the petal that is being thinned down is larger than the other petals.


Step 5
Now with the ball tool get a small dent at the center of the flower.







Step 6
Use a small ball of yellow fondant and attach it to the center of the flower



Step 7
Since the flowers are large, they need to hold their shape while they air dry. Use a bowl as the size of the flower and place foil inside it to form a holding cup.



Step 8
Now place the flower inside the foil. Let it air dry.