For the wedding cake I'm making, I'm doing royal icing roses in white and a few in periwinkle. The design is based on the picture below from the gallery here.



The bride couldn't find silk flowers that matched, and she wanted the flowers to be edible. I had originally said I could do them in fondant, but she'd rather have them in buttercream or royal. My question is, will it look right that they're not going to be as big or take up as much room as silk or real flowers would? The bride wants taller pillars than were used in the picture, but I'm afraid it will look too bare. Any suggestions on how I can make the roses look right? This is my first wedding cake, and I am so afraid it won't look right. Any encouragement would be wonderful!!!

I think it would look good. You may have to make alot more of them, but I am sure it will still look wonderful!

I may, however, call her back. Make a few fondant, bigger roses, and a few buttercream/royal and let her decide. Try to convince her to see it your way...

Why no fondant? Is it a taste thing? If so, I would make some mmf, candy clay, and rolled butter cream and let her taste what it is like. I do mostly fondant work and everytime I get a new customer they all seem to think that fondant tastes bad and are dead set against it, until we meet and they taste what REAL fondant should taste like.Alot of them have be eating Wilton's or they get confused with marzipan.. It is worth a shot!!

Good Luck!

Ok...dumb question here. I don't deal with royal icing, only a couple times. When I used it for roses I told the customer not to eat them. Is royal icing edible? It just gets so hard, that's why I'm wondering.

Could you use some white silk roses and then the periwinkle royal icing roses?

Yes, Royal icing is edible. It does get sort of crunchy. In my experience, Kids seem to like it the most.

Royal Icing gets hard as a rock. Does the bride realize that? I see what your saying about it looking bare. You could put them on something to elevate a little like a half ball of fondant or something, maybe styro covered with fondant (let her know, don't eat that part. You can glue the roses down with more royal and she can pick em' off but she may not want to eat them. B/C can be done the same way essentially. I think Fondant may look a little nicer but this is just my opinion. It's the bride's choice.

Royal Icing is the same stuff those candy dots that came on a stip of paper when we were kids. Not much taste, hard as a rock, but will not kill you!

Kellie, I made royal icing roses for a wedding cake this wknd. and they are edible. The kids loved them, but I did tell everyone that the roses are edible, alittle crunchy and that they are very sweet. So, they decided whether or not to eat them. Personally, they are too sweet for me so I don't eat them myself.

Just wanted to say that. Thanks.

She decided against the fondant because the instructions that I have to make fondant roses say to put them on floral wire, using glue, wrapped of course, and so therefore they wouldn't be edible. I only thought of using royal instead of buttercream because I thought I could make them further ahead and they would hold up better than buttercream. This is my first wedding cake, and I haven't done much in the way of roses anyway, so I'm really getting nervous!

You could make the royal roses using a bigger tip to give you bigger petals. Just a thought as I have used different tips to get larger petals on the the outside of the rose.

I am confused... I probably make my fondant roses wrong, but I just use a tooth pick or small wire and fondant, for 'glue" I just use water.... They are ediable just do not eat the stick/wire... But like I said i am probably doing wrong....But they look good!

I also use a toothpick with my fondant roses and I use vanilla extract for the "glue". The toothpick works great for placing the roses on the cake.
I would charge more for fondant roses as they take more time to make.
Jacqui

I don't find that royal icing tastes bad. Just put some almond essence in it for flavour and it tastes fine.

can anyone suggest which tip numbers to use for variated sizes?

can anyone suggest which tip numbers to use for variated sizes?