Hello all. i am going to be making a luau theme cake and i am looking for directions on how to make hibiscus flowers with either buttercream or royal icing. ive looked but cant seem to find. any directions or any help of any kind is much appreicated.
thanks so much...josie
I have "The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating,VOlumeTwo" which has instructions for making a royal icing hibiscus:
"Line 21/4" two piece lily nail with foil. Staring deep in the nail pipe a tip 104 petal, narrow at base, then wider as you move out to the edge. Jiggle hand for a 1" wide ruffle, then decrease pressure as you move back into the base. Pipe 5 petals. Use tube 3 to pipe a line of icing out from base, down center of petal. Pipe a dot of icing in flower center and insert a 1 3/4 curved wire.Coatwire with icing by pushing tube over wire and squeezing while pulling away. top with tube 3 yellow dots, tube 1 green dots." GOOD LUCK!!
LOL - this is so ironic. I was talking to my Wilton teacher about this very flower today. I need one for a luau cake next month!
Rachel
I made what I thought were some tropical looking flowers on a cake not too long ago. It's the purple and white "ROYS" cake in my profile. I think by using bright or deep colors it makes the flowers look more tropical.
I basically did what SweetSuccess posted above buy using the lily nail and making the flowers like a petunia but with a little extra ruffled look to each petal. I used royal icing but they never would dry and stuck badly to the tin foil even after 4 days. Maybe the royal icing was too "wet" and too thick. I only got about 20 flowers out of the 60+ I piped that didn't break.
Hope that helps.
KimAZ
Here's pic. to go with the instructions, hope it helps ya some 
Click on the pic and it'll enlarge so you can print it out 
Same instructions that sweetsuccess posted 
Thank you to everyone who posted. CC member Deb emailed me privately the first day with those instructions and picture. Rachel hope all this info also helps you out on your cake. will post picture of cake when its all done.
thanks so much everyone!!
josie
Quote by @%username% on %date%
%body%