Course 3 Final Cake (Help With Attaching Flowers)

Decorating By springlakecake Updated 21 Feb 2007 , 6:53pm by springlakecake

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springlakecake Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 5:46pm
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I am taking course 3 now and we have the final cake coming up. If I have time I would like to try and do the roses (mine did NOT turn out well in class with the wilton cutters) but I thought I would try anyway. I really have no experience with fondant flowers and was wondering the easiest way I could secure these to the cake. I know you are supposed to use wire and all, but I just dont have any knowledge right now. Can I just use toothpicks or something? Also what can I use to let them dry? I suppose there probably is something commercial for this (flower former?) but can I use an egg carton or something?

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Elserj Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 5:51pm
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An egg carton works fine, I use that. You can use royal icing to attach also. It depends on where you are attaching them.

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BritBB Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 5:54pm
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Our instructor showed us how to attach them in class - with lots of buttercream. How are you expected to know how to attach them if they don't tell/show you?

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Nitu Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 5:54pm
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Agree with Elserj.
Or you can use min cupcake pans too. But egg cartons are better and easy to carry.

Nitu

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mcalhoun Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 5:58pm
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When we made them in course 3 we had ours on toothpicks and let them dry in a piece of styrofoam. Then when it came time to attach we put them on with either royal or buttercream after we stuck our toothpick thru the cake.
melissa

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adrisss Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 6:10pm
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What I did in course 3 whas the same let them dry on the toothpick over a piece of stryrofoam or with a foam cup turned backwards, then the roses where attached with a special fondant glue we made in class is just a ball of fondant with water and you make a sticky consistency, and with this is easier to attach the roses.

hope the info helps, I think in my pictures theres an example of how I dried my roses.

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Adriana

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Karate Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 6:12pm
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Hi, I used floral foam or styrofoam when I was drying mine. Put the center part on the toothpick, make the rose then stuck in the styrofoam. I just then used the same toothpick to stick them into the cake. Worked great.

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moejoe Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 6:17pm
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when I teach my students I tell them to put the centers on a round toothpick and let them dry in styrofoamover night before I start to make the rose. Then all you have to do is put it into the cake.

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angelas2babies Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 6:18pm
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I find if I make them on floral wires with a hook shape on the end where the bud is formed, the flower doesn't slip off. I make bouquet much more easily this way with the wires as stems, and just put a straw in the cake where I will insert any wires so they don't come in contact with the cake.

And to dry them I let them hang upside down from the wires, but I have used foam, and that works well, too.

Hope that helped.
Angie

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springlakecake Posted 21 Feb 2007 , 6:53pm
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okay thanks everyone! If I do use the wire, do I need a special kind, gauge? I do understand the hook thing.

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