How to Make Icing Cake Flower Decorations

Edible flowers add color to a cake

No iced cake is complete without some flowers on top. Edible flowers add a bit of color to what can otherwise be a rather boring, white cake. Even if that cake tastes great, you want to wow eaters before the first slice has been cut. Once you have mastered the basics of making flowers for iced cakes, you can start to experiment with more complicated designs.

Things You'll Need

• Candy clay mix
• Corn syrup
• Wax paper
• Rolling pin
• Apple blossom cutter
• Edible silver balls

Instructions

1. Add corn syrup to the candy cake mix. Turn out onto waxed paper and leave to set at room temperature.

2. Roll out your hardened candy clay until it is around 1/8-inch thick. Using an apple blossom cutter, cut flower shapes out of the candy clay.

3. Turn up the petals of your flower shapes so they are more prominent, and there is an indent in the center.

4. Carefully place an edible silver ball in the center of each flower. Leave your flowers to harden.

5. Position your flowers on your cake. Push the flowers down until a bond forms with the icing.

References

• Wilton: Candy Clay Petit Blooms
• Wilton: Candy Clay