Petals Won't Stay Up Help!

Sugar Work By Coallie Updated 6 Apr 2017 , 6:52pm by Coallie

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Coallie Posted 10 Mar 2017 , 5:42am
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Hi!  I made four magnolia type flowers for a cake and I'm assuming used too thin of a wire for my petals since they won't stay up. Any suggestions on how to fix this without making new flowers? Thanks in advance!

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Loucakes1 Posted 16 Mar 2017 , 9:30pm
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I'm not sure if this will help now as I've only just seen this, but you could use a small blob of gumpaste at the base of each petal and allow it to dry? 

  Hopefully this will work for you.

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me_me1 Posted 17 Mar 2017 , 1:07am
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Same here, only just seen this one sorry so hopefully this isn't too late.

I would get some thicker wire and secure it to the existing petal with royal icing. Wait for it to dry and then rewrap the stems together with florist tape.

Hope that helps!

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Coallie Posted 6 Apr 2017 , 6:52pm
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Thanks everybody! I ended up attaching thicker wire and letting it dry then wrapping it :)

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