Fresh And Fondant Flowers Mixed, Is It A No No??

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jessieb578 Posted 20 Apr 2007 , 8:44pm
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I'm not the best at gerber daisies, so I'm buying fresh ones for a bridal shower cake, but the flowers needed are gerbers and callas. Being I'd have to travel about 45 minutes for 3-4 callas, would it be a faux pas to have the fresh gerbers and do fondant callas???

Any thoughts?

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JoanneK Posted 20 Apr 2007 , 8:52pm
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I don't see why you couldn't. If your flowers look great like they are real people may never even notice.

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KoryAK Posted 20 Apr 2007 , 8:55pm
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It is certainly possible to do - just be aware that any real flowers are going to make yours look more like sugar. Even if the realism is dead on, the texture of the sugar dough is not going to look the same.

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Sugar_Plum_Fairy Posted 20 Apr 2007 , 8:56pm
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In my less than professional opinion I don't see why you couldn't do that (mixing real and gumpaste/fondant flowers). It's not like anybody's going to eat them and mistakingly grab a real one. icon_smile.gif


* edited to add the word 'fondant'

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indydebi Posted 20 Apr 2007 , 9:10pm
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I mix silk and BC flowers, BC and real flowers, etc., all the time.

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jessieb578 Posted 24 Apr 2007 , 2:41am
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Well, in response to my initial post, I made fondant callas and mixed with real gerber daisies. It came out great, the people at the shower thought my callas were real!!

I'm going to try to add an attachment, but if not, just check out the cake in my pics!

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