How To Make Royal Icing Hyacinth flowers

By: SquirrellyCakes
Sunday, January 23 @ 16:15:31 PST

Reprinted with Permission from Wilton Industries Copyright © 2003-2004 Wilton Industries - All rights reserved
	Tools: Wilton Lily Nail Set Tip: 65 Styrofoam Florist's tape Florist's wire Ingredients: Royal Icing
First Make Blossoms as shown step-by-step above. Use the smallest 2-peice lily nail and line with foil. Then, with leaf tip 65, pull out 6 tiny pointed petals. Repeat for many, many blossoms. Dry and reserve whiel you go on to next step.
Now make Calyx of same color on a length of light-weight white wire. Make one for each blossom and when dry, attach with a dab of icing to back to produce a small flower with a long fluted shape. Dry and prepare to assemble Assemble flower: Position one blossom at top of a length of heavy weight green florist's wire pushed into a styrofoam block. Use green florist's tape to bind it in a position as shown. Then tape another blossom, letting step extend about 1/4-inch from main stem. Continue to tape on blossoms in this manner, foing areound and around, and allowing some air between blossoms to give the natural "see-through" appearance of the flower, until a long oval shape is acheived. (Wind in top and bottom blossoms closer to stem to taper flower) Wind tail of tape around main stem to bottom to finish off.