How To Stick Sugar Roses Onto A Cake
Decorating By SweetNess2345 Updated 19 Aug 2018 , 10:07pm by kakeladi
Hi everyone, I have a Cascade of Roses Wedding Cake that I need to do, I need to stick a variation of small and large roses onto the side of the cake but I don't want to be damaging the cake with 2 much holes so I was thinking Royal Icing was best for this job??? But unsure of what consistency I should be using, can anyone help with anything I need to know , If Royal icing won't do the job I have bought posy picks that I could stick the wires into then into the cake , any help would be much appreciated
SweetNess2345, I make my flowers into bouquets and tape the stems together, so it is only necessary to make three or four holes (I use large straws). If you prefer to stick them onto the side of the cake, my preference would be melted chocolate or candy melts.
if you wanna pipe
i pipe them on the nail and put them right onto the cake ledges then fill in with rose buds and tendrils and leaves in various sizes -- and i cut a popsicle stick in half -- trim it -- and insert the halves next to each other into the cake to form a little ledge in about the middle of each smaller tier -- and two sets in the larger tiers -- one a little lower on the right and the other a little higher on the left within your cascade -- so it's all kind of flowing up or down however you look at it -- like a stream --
so you can set the piped rose kind of on it's side onto the sticks with it's butt up against the cake and with buds, leaves, tendrils all over filling in -- it works -- and i mean you have some roses and buds hanging off the tier above so it might sound sparse but once you get doing it -- it all fills in beautifully -- and of course there's a pile piled up on the ledge below it too -- and if the popsicle sticks shows any-- you just pipe some leaves over it --
and you really place the stick a bit lower than the midpoint -- like put the sticks in just under midway where the rose itself will be in the middle -- so the sticks are actually a little bit lower than midway -- if you get me --
and if you pipe some buds on the nail that gives a nice 3-d effect to fill in -- and some piped straight onto the cake and graduate the size
i could come over and help 
but the buttercream just sticks to itself -- good tasting american buttercream -- made with butter and cream
I prefer to make my flowers without wires/stems so I start at the bottom and work up the swag: https://www.cakecentral.com/gallery/i/28124/pollus-red-rose-swag and this one: https://cdn001.cakecentral.com/gallery/2015/02/900_3733FV_tropical-floral-swag.jpg
Pipe an open circle of icing on the back of the flower with a smallish round tip (like 3 or 4). That works sort of like a sucktion to help hold the flower. This works with either fondant/gp or b'cream flowers. The flowers on the bottom help support the others as you go up.
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