How to Make Sugar Flowers | Cake Decorations how to make
How to Make Sugar Flowers | Cake Decorations
English - transcript English - transcript Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner,head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do customcakes of all kinds -- wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can thinkof we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating.And I have fondant and gum paste mix. Fondant to keep it pretty moist while you're workingwith it. Gum paste dries hard once it has some time to dry. A little bit of cornstarchto keep it from sticking to the table. And for this we want to roll it pretty thin, thatwill make the flower petals more realistic. So now we have it rolled out, it's prettythin, that way it will look more realistic once we get it punched out. So we have 4 differentsizes of this flower cutter, and that will allow us to get the 4 different layers toreally make it frilly. So we'll start with the big one. We'll have the big one and thenone of each. And then now we want to frill the edges, because right now we have thiscut flat edge and it's really not very exciting once it's stacked up. So we want to have thistool. It's graduated and it comes to a point on the end. And that's the end we want touse to frill the edges. So we just want to roll it back and forth. And it will kind offlatten and ruffle the edges to make it more realistic, more like a real flower petal.So you just want to hold it in one spot. Give it a couple rolls back and forth, and it createsruffles. And that's what we want to do on every petal. And if you don't have this specifictool, they come in the sets with all of the fondant tools. But if you can't get it youcan use a toothpick as well. So once you get all your petals punched out and frilled theedges, wrap up whatever is extra just because you don't want the gum paste to dry out. Itdrys out very quickly. And then we have a flower shaper as a mold to hold our shape.So there's of pick which one you like. The wider onewill make a very open flower, and the smaller one will kind of condense it a little bitmore. I think that's what I want. So you want to have the biggest one on the bottom. AndI also like, I frilled the edges, you could also add a couple veins just by dragging thepointed end of this tool from the center outwards. And that will even give it some creases tofold by. And then you want a little bit of your glue, which is a mixture of water andmeringue powder. And just a little bit of glue on the very inside. You don't want tomuch glue showing on the outer edges. And then you can kind of pinch in the middle andfold it. There's no special rule. Kind of make it how you want it to look. And makesure they're two stuck together. And then a little bit of glue in the next one. Nextsize down. So that's our flower, and it needs a little inside. So you can pinch off a littlebit of your extra color. I like to make a little ball. A little glue in the very middle.Press that in there. And then to give it a little texture I have a piping tip, and thatwill give it some texture on the inside. And then you can kind of ruffle the edges, andcover some of it up, and fix it how you like it. And then it will dry. Give it a half anhour/hour to dry and then you can put it on your cake.