Ok...I am making my wedding cake (for son) this weekend. The icing will be buttercream but the drop flowers are royal. Can I put the drop flowers on the cake on friday for a saturday eve wedding OR will they get soggy and fall off? I have to do a small vine to connect them and wondered if I should do buttercream or royal for the vining?
Need help asap...
They would probably be okay, but could you make them ahead and stick them on with dots of icing when you get there, or early saturday? Just to make sure.... And I'd go with c=b/c for the vining.
I would wait and do them at the last possible moment..........is there any way you can use fondant??? I think that might fair better for a long period of time...........or what about making all the vines ( I would probably just do bc vines) and then at the last moment pop all the flowers on the cakes???
I made the baby carriage cake from the Wilton Class 2, which has royal icing daisies on buttercream, and they were fine. The cake stayed refrigerated the whole time.
Also, I remember when I made my basket cake for class 2 it stayed in the fridge for a couple of days and all the flowers were OK. So if you can have the cake in the fridge I would put them on, if the cake is going to be on the counter, I would wait. And I would make the vining in buttercream.
Once royal icing is dry it can hold up to being on buttercream. The only thing I have found that I have to watch for are colors bleeding and the only time it happened to me was white royal flowers on red buttercream. The buttercream bled onto the flowers!
Cindy
Hi: I made a buttercream icing cake and put royal icing flowers on the cake. I didn't put it in the frig. and it was fine for the next day. My super. said it was so lovely that she didn't want anyone to cut it. You shouldn't have a problem. I also remember reading that the leaves should also be buttercream. So, I think that would also apply to the vines. Post and let us see the end result. Thanks. Vicki0052
I'd do the leaves and vines in buttercream and I'd attach the flowers with buttercream dots.
If your flowers are very thin and the environment for the cake is very warm, you may begin to see grease spots on the flowers. Keep it as cool as you can and it will slow the formation of grease spots.
Rae
The royal flowers will keep fine until the next day. Use buttercream for the vines and leaves. You're the mother of the groom ... you have enough to do! Congratulations.
Thanks for the advice. The wedding is Saturday at 530 and reception is at 630 so I might be able to do the last minute stuff that morning. I will be so glad when it is over with....lol
There is no where to refrigerate the cake since it will be 6,9,12 and 16 layers. Do they always look so small height wise before they are decorated?
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