Icing Flowers
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Decorate Cakes and Cookies with Icing Flowers
I'm purely an amateur but I have been fascinated with cake decorating since I was a girl. I was the chief birthday cake maker in my family for many years until I went to college. My creations weren't professional as I valued taste (buttercream) over visuals, but I still managed to make something special.
Cupcake! by walknboston on Flickr.
Buttercream Icing Recipes
- Wilton's Buttercream Icing
- This is the tried and true icing recipe I've used for years. It uses half butter, half shortening. The shortening gives it the stiffness you need for flowers to hold their shape.
- Martha Stewart's Basic Buttercream Recipe
- This one uses 3 sticks of unsalted butter. Should hold up pretty well as long as your working in a cool environment and keeping the cake cool. It no doubt tastes fantastic.
- French Buttercream Recipe
- French buttercream seems to be the marriage of royal icing and buttercream icing. It has both egg whites (and a lot of them) and butter. Honestly I'd leave this to the experts, although I've seen Martha Stewart make some beautiful soft flowers with this.
Royal Icing Recipes
Royal icing provides sharper and cleaner shapes than buttercream frosting, but it is egg white based so it doesn't have the same buttery flavor. Flowers can be made ahead and dried. It dries so well, in fact, that you have to keep the bowl covered with a wet towel while working to keep it from drying out.
Royal icing can also be used to outline and then fill shapes.
You have to be careful not to use regular eggs in order to prevent salmonella. Meringue powder is a nice alternative.
- Alton Brown's Royal Icing Recipe
- Using pasteurized egg whites.
- Wilton's Royal Icing Recipe
- This uses meringue powder.
Wilton Flowers and Cake Design Lesson Plan
Wilton Flowers and Cake Design Lesson Plan
Amazon Price: $2.30 (as of 06/01/2012)
Lesson Plan for Wilton's Flowers and Cake Design course. In this course, you will explore more sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life! You will create breathtaking icing flowers such as Pansies, Lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Then you will discover the secrets of arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake top bouquet. Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive border treatment or basket weave design. With the skills you learn here and your ability to make flowers in advance using gum paste and fondant or royal icing, you can create beautiful blooms at your convenience, ready to place on any cake.
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Ready Made Royal Icing Roses
Blog Posts from Google
- Artisan Emporium helps talent shine
- The family-run Artisan Emporium is hoped to provide a hub for arts and crafts, selling bespoke furniture, edible icing flowers and hand-made signs, alongside paintings, sculptures and photos submitted by the town's creative community.
Royal Icing Flowers for Cake Decorating
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What do you like about icing flowers?
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Dickstucki1
May 27, 2012 @ 10:49 pm | delete
- Very nice.
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ItayasDesigns
May 12, 2012 @ 2:37 am | delete
- I think I'd rather adore them and splurge on rare occasions and eat them versus learn how to make them. Very pretty though! :)
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wayne_luvinlife
Jul 11, 2011 @ 8:04 pm | delete
- my wife is the artist when it comes to pasteries...but I love the sampling!
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jptanabe
Nov 5, 2010 @ 10:18 am | delete
- These icing flowers are so beautiful - if I actually made any that looked that good I wouldn't want to eat them I'd be so proud!
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