I kinda dropped the ball on this 'lil cake I am making

I am making a tiki type totem for a luau tomorrow night at the place we are wintering in Texas. I need to find some tropical type flowers to add to the cuppies and around the cake. I have the Wilton gumpaste kit with the cutters, etc, but there are few tropical flowers in there, plus I am not very "accomplished" with gumpaste at this point! Any ideas on some easy BC, RI or fondant flowers I can use? I do know how to do a lily using the cup thing's that we learned in Wilton 3 class last week.

Thanks for any help, suggestions or even tutorials or picture sites of how to's you can provide.

PS...I do have all day to play and practice...being retired is such a good thing!

CenterpieceSweets has some very nice ones in the gallery. I would send her a pm and ask for instructions. They look like they are done with the 104 rose tip but I'm not good at explaining how to do it. You could also go to cakegenie's web site and see if there is anything there that would help you.

Using your lily nail make Petunia like flowers like in course 3........but make them in bright colors like Pink, orange, yellow. Use a long stamen in the center giving it a Hibiscus flower look. You can check out my pics. I have a tropical theme cake I made last summer for my grandaughters birthday. Hey it was good enough it even fooled a butterfly! Good luck!

I think one of the easiest flowers to make is a jasmine blossom. Also, a lilly is nice and not too hard. Especially an astromeria. If you need help, pm me or email me and I can try to help you out.

I have this cake which I made with Hibiscus flowers. They are made from buttercream, using a tip #104. I like the bright colors for a luau theme.

Also, try to search around in YouTube.com. there are tons of tutorials on flowers that you could watch...HTH!

what about fondant/gumpaste frangipani (hawiian flower used for a lei)

they're uber-easy - pm me for instructions if you wish...

my gallery: http://www.sugarmooncakeco.com/gallery.html
has a photo of a cake with them, page 9 white cake called "hawaiian dream"

it was my first attempt at them, but i would definitely do them again!

I've made these hibiscus flowers several times for cupcakes. They are really easy. I use fondant and a 5 petal rose cutter to make them.

here is the best frangipani/plumeria flower tutorial I've seen:
http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/frangipani-tutorial

Good luck!

Oh my gosh...you guys are terrific! Thank you so much for all the info...
I think I can do this!

GRAMMASUE....Do you have a tutorial on how you made the hibiscus flower?


The shape, the colors, sooooo beautiful!

Thank you!
I don't have a tutorial, but they are very easy to make. I used marshmallow fondant and a 5 petal rose cutter. First I colored the fondant with bright colors (Americolor Gels), then just cut out the flower and shaped the petals a little with a ball tool. I brushed the centers with a contrasting color of luster dust and attached the small piece of fondant in the center for the flower stamen. They are not really true to life hibiscus, but the bright colors make them look very pretty.

Grammasue - I sure wish I was closer to Cincinnati! I would beg you for an in-person lesson! I just got wrangled into making a Hawaiian themed birthday cake for next weekend and I would love to put these flowers on as my cake topper. If I have the time, I might try it...these are so pretty and probably a lot less expensive than the real hibiscus I was going to order.

Andrea

I need to know how to make hibiscus, my sister is having a luau party next month, I will try to follow Grammasue instructions to make the flower, see if I can do them.

GrammaSue...do you give lessons?

<fingers crossed>


I live near Cincinnati, about 30 minutes northeast of downtown.