Hi everyone. How in the world do you get all these heavy royal icing roses to stay on this cake???? Thanks in advance.

Are you sure they're royal? They look more like gumpaste to me, although I am far from an expert. I

f they're gumpaste, they might be on wires, or (whether they're gumpaste or royal) they might just be "glued" on with royal icing...which makes the vines and leaves. That stuff can really secure decorations to cakes!

The top ones are probably secured to a styrofoam half ball.... then the cascade is not as heavy as you'd think...and actually, royal icing flowers are lighter weight than gumpaste, I personally think....

The only roses I see are sitting on the ledge safe & secure.

See the green lily on the left that is sticking into the 2nd tier from the bottom? See how it's kinda at an angle so it looks like it's weight is distributed properly to hold it into the side of the cake. Plus each flower that goes up the side is resting a bit on the flowers that are sitting beneath it too and all supported by the ones on the ledge too.

It's a butterceam cake so the icing helps hold them on too.

I think that they are RI flowers, and I would guess that they might have toothpicks or wires to help hold them on the sides.
if it was on fondant, I would think that you could glue them with RI, but seeing how it's BC, toothpicks or wire would help.

hopefully the traditional cake decorator experts can help!

Little dollops of icing behind each flower then leaves or other items (smaller flowers) in buttercream added to help secure each flower as you go...

I came back to add what JenWhitlock added (not knowing you'd done so already of course)....some of the flowers can be secured to toothpicks/skewers with royal icing after they're dried.

Over on sweetdreams years ago, a woman told us that she used Popsicle sticks like stair steps to hold roses in her garlands. I'm not sure, but I think she broke them in half. I do remember her saying that she really needed to use very few of them.

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