periwinkle gumpaste flowers

How to make Periwinkle gumpaste blossoms. your gonna need a clean flat surface, gumpaste/fondant tools, colored gumpaste, an empty egg carton, a paint brush, pairing knife, shortening, royal icing, and lustre dust. Grease a clean flat surface with shortening, and grease your hands with shortening too, to prevent gumpaste from sticking. Take out your Periwinkle/lilac colored gumpaste, and start kneading it in your hands. Once gumpaste is pliable, roll out onto your clean, flat surface. Roll out your sugar dough as thin as you can. Once gumpaste is to desired thickness, use one of your larger sized, five petal cutters, and start punching out flowers. Punch out up to five at a time, you dont want to do too much, because it could cause, your flowers to dry out too soon. Wrap unused dough with plastic wrap. Place one of your flowers on your foam mat. Use your tool thats round on one end, and pointy on the other. Use pointy side to poke center of flower. Now take rounded end of your tool, and roll it inside each petal, then using same side of your tool, start near middle of flower, and work to end of each petal, this should curl in your petals. Once you've completed all five petals, then place flowers into empty egg carton to dry. Repeat process, until you have desired amount of flowers. Now take out a small piece of wrapped, periwinkle colored gumpaste. Knead gumpaste in hands, until pliable. Now take a really small piece of that gumpaste, and start rolling it in between your thumb and index finger, until nice and round. Use a pairing knife, to mark a small x in the center. Repeat to desired amount. Now place your flower centers, into your empty egg carton to dry. When flowers, and flower centers are dry, take out royal icing, dillute it slightly. Take small paint brush, and put a little drop of dilluted, royal icing into center of flower. Now take flower center and press it into middle of flower (make sure your x on flower center is face up). Repeat process with all flowers, and put back into empty egg carton to dry. Once dry, take a clean dry paint brush, and lustre dust, begin dusting flower petals, repeat with all five petals, and then repeat with all flowers. Your flowers are done yay! Use your flowers to decorate cakes, and cupcakes.

Another great variation is violet. Use the same gel food coloring, just add a little more. I like to use the wilton violet colored gel food coloring. I used Periwinkle colored centers here.