CC has always been sooo helpful with my MANY questions. Anyhow, I am doing a wedding cake in a couple of weeks and the bottom tier will be covered in fondant/gumpaste flowers. I want to match the flowers with the dress. See the attached picture. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON THE TYPE OF FLOWERS THESE ARE AND POSSIBLY A TUTORIAL? I actually need to get started on them so I can have them done in time. ANY SUGGESTIONS ON TECHNIQUES/DESIGN FOR THE ENTIRE 4 TIER CAKE, ITSELF (the cake should resemble the dress)? ALL suggestions are welcome...you may have something that I hadn't thought of. LOL!
I'd go for something like this:
http://sugarteachers.blogspot.ca/2010/06/mames-rolled-roses.html
Scroll down past the ballet slippers for a tutorial on rolled ribbon roses. You might want them larger, but that would just be a matter of practicing with longer and wider fondant strips. hth
Go to the site called my cake school and then look at the blogs. There is one called pretty pink flower cake. There will be a whole tutorial on this. You can tweak your flowers to look more like the dress by not having such a small center. The other thing you could do is make concentric circles and frill the edges with a toothpick/skewer and lay each circle on top of the bigger one--fabric flower. There are a ton of flower tutorials but I think you don't want to go the ribbon rose route as those don't look like ribbon roses to me. JMHO. Good luck.
Just cut 3 or 4 rounds in progressively smaller sizes, ruffle the edges, then stack them.
this. i have a couple of cakes with 'fabric' flowers done this way in fondant. If you are going to be overing a cake in this style and the flowers are quite large, the you want to dry them on a curve to mimic the curve of your cake. If you dry them flat, then they will stand off the side of the cake (see my photos of a white cake with purple ruffle flowers.
if you want a buttercream finish, you can get this full-flower fabric look by doing the large 1M rosette to cover the tier.
Or... you could make your cake look almost exactly like the bottom of the dress:
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2266835/wafer-paper-rose-tutorial
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