Help With Daisies On Cupcakes & Cake For Wedding
Decorating By Regan Updated 16 Aug 2007 , 8:39pm by miriel
I have been asked to do my FIRST baking for a wedding. This is for a very good friend and it is her 2nd wedding so nothing spectacular but she wants cupcakes with a daisy on them. Sounds pretty simple and I have seen some pretty ones done with gumpaste. I have never worked with gumpaste so my question is can these be made from icing? I am doing a small cake just for the bride & groom, any suggestions on how to decorate that with daisies? I'm assuming this should be a little more 'dressier' than the cupcakes...
congradulations on your first wedding. Daisys can be done in royal icing and dried and placed on the cupcakes but a simple fondant daisy is one of the easyest flowers and can also be done in advance. It would be a good way to get your foot in the door with fondent and you can start them far enough in advance that if you have issues you can work them out or move to plan B.
Gumpaste is actually really easy to work with! I just used real gumpaste for the first time recently to make cradles for a baby shower cake. This is the recipe I used:
http://www.nicholaslodge.com/gumpaste.htm
Super easy to use and a nice white color.
Wilton makes a daisy cutter so it's easy to get ahold of that!
You can make them from royal icing too:
http://www.wilton.com/decorating/basic/daisy.cfm
You could add some super pearl luster dust on the daisies for the small cake to give them a little something extra.
As far as decorating-try looking at the invites, her dress, the other decorations that she is using for inspiration on how simple or fancy you want to decorate it. Also have her show you cakes she likes and that will give you some ideas/inspiration for the decoration!
Congratulations!
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I just made a bunch of daisies for my mom's cake and cookies using gumpaste and fondant separately. Both work just fine but the gumpaste dries nice and hard (a bit fragile too). I was actually able to take most of these off the cake and save!!
There's a gumpaste flower kit wilton makes with an instructional book and a bunch of cutters for various flowers. This is what I used for both my gumpaste and fondant daisies. They turned out great.
I made a daisy cake using the daisy cutters from Wilton. You can see the cake in my photos. They were really easy to use. I would have liked to make them out of royal icing, but didn't have time or patience. Cutting them out of fondant was very easy. I let them sit a few days and harden and attached them to my cake with royal icing.
Good luck with your wedding cake!! I'm sure it will turn out great! Make sure to post your picture!!!
Thank you guys for all the tips & suggestions & support!!
Well I have used royal icing before so I think my first attempt is going to be the royal icing, I know I'm a chicken! IF they don't work then I will move on to the fondant. The wedding is the end of October, if I started to do the daisies now out of the royal they would still be ok wouldn't they come October?
I really appreicate this guys and I'm sure I will have more questions as it gets closer! Well one more...I'm guessing I will be doing about 6-7 dozen cupcakes, what do you guys use to store that many to keep them fresh? Any secret I need to know about?
I posted my reply before I saw Nautkl1's post...so I could do it on each cupcake basically the same way I would if I were to use Royal Icing huh?? Hmm...I will have to think about that, with the royal I can at least do them way in advance, how long could the daisies sit in the freezer and how would they be after they defrosted?
Finally! I can offer some advice! I made my first daisys last week with MMF and they were VERY easy to do. I used Wilton cutters. If you wanted regular daisys just dont curve up the petals. It took about 4 days for them to completely dry.
They are in my pics, if you want a pic of just the daisys pm me.
I posted my reply before I saw Nautkl1's post...so I could do it on each cupcake basically the same way I would if I were to use Royal Icing huh?? Hmm...I will have to think about that, with the royal I can at least do them way in advance, how long could the daisies sit in the freezer and how would they be after they defrosted?
You don't need/don't want to freeze royal icing flowers. The humidity will kill them. Just let them dry and place them in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. I like to use tissue paper between the layers of flowers.
The last cupcakes I did I placed a piece of non-skid material inside a plastic storage container (one of the low, long ones-not the big underbed ones but you get the idea). They were already decorated when I put them in and the transported great!
Good idea Dodibug on the storage containers, I wouldn't have even thought about that. I actually have one I used for wrapping paper, its really long, I bet that would work! Thanks. Oh and no I meant to freeze them if I did them out of bc, but maybe it would affect it the same way?
Well now I might be leaning more towards doing them out of mmf...what do you guys think? I have never made mmf before but I just got my new KA mixer so I guess now is as good as any to try right?? ha Not sure how coloring it would go, could I use bc for the centers instead of fondant??
You could freeze them made out of bc ahead of time but you'd have to freeze some, layer some wax paper and make the next layer, etc then seal up the container.
If you are coloring a small amount of mmf it's pretty easy to do once it's made but if you had to color an entire batch it's best to do it when the marshmallows are melted before you add them to the powdered sugar.
You could make the centers bc but I think you will get a more polished result with fondant. The fondant center will hold the petals together better than trying to put them together by the ends and then piping the bc on.
If you do make them from mmf give them about 5 days to dry maybe more if it's humid where you live.d
I prefer daisies made with fondant/gumpaste.
Let them dry on a former to give the petals movement so the flowers look better. To make a former, I use a small bowl and mold lightweight aluminum foil on it, then place the cut out fondant/gumpaste daisies on them.
I like these daisy cutters from PME: http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=17376
http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=17424
The second set veins the petals and cuts them at the same time.
These JEM daisy centers go well with the daisy cutters above: http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=17043
Thanks Miriel, those cutters are very cool. I was thinking if I went with fondant then I want a cutter that will 'vein' it for me too. Can both of those be used with fondant? The 2nd one said good for 'sugarpaste' where as the 1st one actually said fondant or gumpaste...I think I like the 2nd one a little better too but want to be sure it will work with fondant as well?
Thank you guys so so much with this!
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