I am not good with Buttercream roses at all so now I want to go out and get some tootsie roll and starburst.. Thanks for all the good ieads and I think your roses look good...
Holly, are the other decorations on top done with Tootsie Rolls also, the leaves and the the little flowers?? Thanx
does anyone know of a good website that shows or tells how to make these?
Thanks
Do you make tootsie roll and caramel acorns in the fall? They are so easy as well!
The roses and the cake look great!!!!! I was wondering about the caramel acorns ...I would love to hear about them and see some pics!
Ok, so, teach me!!!
Do you make the starburst and caramel roses the same way?
Baking911 has a tutorial on bubble gum roses.
http://www.baking911.com/decorating/cakes_bubblegum_roses.htm
I would love to try all these, as I have many grand-nieces and nephews on whose birthday cakes these would look great!
If anyone has any other info or step by step pix, please PM me
Thanks Bunches --
Theresa 
Those roses are great! I read once the article on baking911, but still didn't have chance to try those. Now there goes the question: what is tootsie roll? I saw on the video that they are in the shape of sweets or caramells, but I don't know what a consistance they have 
. I am affraid that in shops in Switzerland I might not get them, so I would like to know what kind of chocolate sweets I could use instead?
Kasia
Tootsie Rolls are a chocolate candy, which is very similar in taste and texture to chocolate clay. Knowing Switzerland's reputation for it's chocolate, I doubt very much that you will see them anywhere outside a store that specializes in US products, or a US military base.
You can use chocolate clay in the same manner. Here is the CC link for it:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1608-0-Chocolate-Clay-Modeling-Chocolate.html
Theresa
Theresa, thanks a lot 
so it looks like I have to make my own chocolate clay 
. It's a pitty, coz I hoped for less work But there goes another question: what is corn sirup and what can I use instead? It comes in many recipes, but I haven't seen here anything like that. Well, that's true that Switzerland is very famous for its chocolate and we mostly get here pretty nice quality stuff (unfortunately pretty pricy too ), but I will have my eyes open, maybe some supermarket can provide sth like tootsie rolls
Kasia
Corn Syrup is a sugar syrup that is derived from the sugars in corn. It is used in many confectionery applications, where the chef does not want the sugars in the product to re-crystalize.
Unfortunately, I do not know of any substitution for corn syrup, as I am very amateur at baking/pastry work. I will send a copy of this message to a pastry chef I recently met, and ask her to advise me. I will keep this message open in my files, so I can post any response that I may receive from her.
Theresa
Theresa, thanks a lot! You are really kind to explain me all these stuff. Sorry for asking so many questions, but some of the terms or ingredients are completly new to me, and since many of the products aren't avaliable here I am trying to find my way to substitute them somehow. From the other hand it's chalenging in a way. Thanks again for your help
Kasia
Sure, is that not what international relations is supposed to be about, one nation helping another? If we cannot do this for individuals, how can we expect to do it on a grander scale?
I sent an E-mail to a contact I have at a culinary school, instead of to the pastry chef. He is a food chemist, and I hope he will get back to me in the near future.
Theresa
Well, that's very true what you said I got really inspired by this thread and went today to my nearest coop (sth like small Walmart, I think, but way way smaller) and found there sth called Carambar, Ithink it might be sth like tootsie rools: as soon as you put it into your mouth it glues it up completly . Will give it a try today and see if I can make roses out of it. I as well found there mashmellows so next project will be MMF, but firt need to find a drugstore supplying glycerine (hard thing to find in Switzerland, don't ask me why. In Poland I didn't have any problem with it...) So guys fingers crossed and I go to try to do some roses
I took a picture of my colored Tootsie Roll roses. It doesn't want to "attach", so here's a link:
http://members23.clubphoto.com/_cgi-bin/members/compact_slide_show.pl?album_item_id=159465721
Oh, HollyP, your chocolate cake looks so chocolately and yummy!
Hi, All!~
You folks are all so inspiring. Party City had the mixed colors and regular tootsie rolls on sale last weekend, so I bought some of each to try my hand at making the roses.
Well, my hands are way too hot to make them manually, as they just wilted away as I was shaping the petals. So I had a great time eating the results, but now I have a question.
How thick do you roll the candy out when you shape or cut the petal? I am thinking that maybe I made the petals too thin, because even in front of the air conditioning, they did not keep their shape.
Anyone in the US, are the petals the size of a quarter, or larger?
Thanks -
Theresa
Theresa,
I neither roll nor cut the petals out. I cut up the tootsie roll (into ten tiny pieces) and just press the little pieces between my thumb and finger. The petals come out to about the size of a dime or smaller. They are very irregularly shaped, there is no precision whatsoever in the way I do it. Are you using a rose cutter kit?
No, I have not used a cutter yet. I read a previous post that said they cut the candy into 5 pieces, so I went with that size and pressed by hand and shaped to a size slightly larger than a quarter, but the petals did not hold up. The irregularity did not bother me, as I raise roses, so I expect that.
Theresa
I have never heard of TR Flowers. They Look GREAT! Is there a site that shows step by step with pics to make these?? I would LOVE to try them.
Audrey
Theresa,
That was my post you read. You missed the part where I said I cut it lengthwise first, THEN cut into five pieces ... so you end up with 10 pieces.
8 are petals, one is the cone, and one is the center wrap.
I take a mini tootsie roll and microwave it about 15 seconds. I use a paring knife and slice it lengthwise. Then I cut the length into five equal pieces, so now (because I split it lengthwise) I have ten pieces. I flatten 9 pieces between my finger and thumb into basically circles. I take the last piece and form a tiny cone. I take one of the flat pieces and elongate it a little and wrap it around the tip of the cone for the center. Then I put three petals around that and finally five petals around that. Voila!
Got it! Thanks for clearing that up for me. That's what I get for hurrying through the posts.
Theresa
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