I have a question for anyone who has made this cake or any tulips for that matter. Miss Missey sent me great instructions for the tulips (thanks) but I don't have the gumpaste flower cutter set. I was reading on the Wilton website that the tulip splendor cake was made with a rose cutter. I thought that the tulips had 6 petals, but the rose cutter has 5. Is it made the same way? Do you use the ball/marble tool and elongate the rose petals and just fold them overlapping or ???

ANY help is appreciated. I hate to go buy the 32-piece set UNLESS someone thinks it is easier that way!!

Thanks. I am not making that cake, but I need to make the tulips.

Thanks in advance,
Jennifer

I read the Wilton instructions for that cake and it says to use the largest rose petal cutter which is a cutter shaped like a rose petal (teardrop) so you could cut the number of petals you needed. I don't know why it says that though because there is a tulip cutter in the flower making set too. Maybe because the tulips need to be smaller.

You do thin the sides of the petals by rolling them with a dowel (use like a little rolling pin).

I have the medium rose cutter I purchased from Earlene at www.earlenescakes.com. Will this work??

If it cuts the petals individually, it would work great. If it doesn't, just cut them apart. Either way, use 6 petals to a flower.

so is there a base like for the rose?

I am looking at my gumpaste book that has the tulip instructions in it. And it does not look like they have a base.

Is this like the one that I did and just post a pic of? I did one from a Wilton book for my course 3 project that has tulips on it. I just put it in my photos. If so, let me know and I can tell you how I did mine

What gallery is it in? would love to see them.
Jennifer

Click on the photo link w/my nick and it should take you there or you can look in the Uncatergorized category for it. It wasn't really a wedding cake or a birthday cake .. so it didn't really fit any areas .. so I put it the uncatergorized area.

boysmom,

There is not a base for the tulips like there is for the roses. The petals of the tulips form together to make a "cup." You can form them on one of the round ends of a rolling pin, if you have one of the ones without handles; you then place them in an egg carton to dry. You can put pieces of cotton between the petals to give the tulip a more natural look. I used the tulip cutters from my gumpaste kit when I made my tulips, but I think there wouldn't be much difference except for size if you used the teardrop rose petal cutter. In the center of the tulip "cup", pipe a star in the center and then put in your wire and stamens. You then put the final three adjoining icing strokes on the middle stamen to make a Y. If you need the step by step instructions, IM me and I will send them to you.

I did mine in a lily nail. I lined the lily nail with foil. I rolled out my gumpaste then cut 6 rose petals with the cutter that came with the gumpaste set from Wilton (I used the largest one). I used the gumpaste tool that has a round ball on the end of it and a small piece of thin foam and thinned and widen the ends of each petal giving it a curved/cupped effect. I laid 3 petals down into the lily nail, curving them to fit inside the nail. I then took 3 more petals and brushed each with a mixture of 1 tsp of meringue powder and 5 tsps of water. I lightly brushed each of the 3 petals I had laid into the lily nail with this solution. I laid the other 3 petals in between the others. I lifted this gently from the lily nail and put them in an egg carton to dry. After drying, I used yellow royal icing and a star tip to do the center of each tulip. I then put 3 stamen in each flower. Hope this helps!

The bride wants white tulips, all white cake, etc., so what size of white stamens would I need? ie., at sugarcraft, there are different sizes

THANK YOU ALL!