Help! Large Gumpaste Sunflowers Keep Breaking
Decorating By Cathy26 Updated 5 May 2009 , 5:10pm by Cathy26
hi everyone, i bought the 105mm large plunger sunflower cutter for a wedding cake in august and am using it for an order on wednesday - cream fondant 10 square birthday cake with a "spray" of sunflowers, filler flowers and leaves on top. the only problem is that i brought my sunflowers out last night to practice arranging them and they all but one broke!! i was drying them on foil on top of cups to get a good shape but the base of them was still soft and all the petals just dropped off them.
had to make more and now im worried the same thing will happen when i got to arrange them. they are not on wires i was going to prop them up with balls of fondant behind and then fill in the gaps between flowers with leaves, etc.
does anyone have any tips on how they would arrange the flowers so as not to put too much pressure on them and support them so they dont break??
Thanks
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