Ok. I am now stressing out officially. I have 2 wedding cakes & 3 grooms cakes for this weekend. One of the cakes is the cupcake wedding cake. !00 cupcakes. 1/3 are to be calla lillies. 1/3 tulips. 1/3 hydrangeas. I bought the gum paste flower making set. Can anyone tell me how I should make them? Will the cupcakes look funny with tulips standing straight up? Will they be too big if I use the gum paste cutouts? AND, how do I make hydrangeas??? I really need your help! Thanks so much, Helen

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Helen

You are in a pickle. The flowers should have been made alreadyYou need time to make 100 flowers.
I haven't done any gumpaste flowers as of yet but maybe someone out there has and can give you a time frame and some help on how to do them.

Good luck

Kathy R

You probably don't have time to make all the flowers you need out of gumpaste, especially if you have never made them before. Hydrangeas alone have about 12-15 blossoms per flower. Even callas take time since you need so many of them. Use silk flowers.

I have that same kit and the book says you need to give the flowers time to dry. The only flowers I have made are the apple blossoms...but those are the tiny ones.

You may need to go with another decoration or an icing flower. Could you make some buttercream rose cupcakes instead???

Good luck...and let us know what you ended up doing!

No, the bride only wants these flowers. But maybe I am silly, but I do believe I can complete them. They will be very small, much smaller than usual. I have made the calli's before. The tulips should be ok too. I may just do royal drop flowers in bunches for the hydrangeas. Thanks everyone!