How to Decorate a Cake With Daisy Flower Icing
One of the most important staples in a cake decorator's arsenal is royal icing. Made from meringue powder, royal icing is used both for covering cakes and making cake decorations, like flowers. Making daisy flowers out of royal icing may be a little fiddly at first, but once you give it a couple of attempts, you will be able to make enough to cover a whole cake if you wish. To make the finicky work of daisy flowers a little easier, a special flower-making tool called a nail is needed. Nails are small concave cups on top of a handle and are available from most cake decorating stores. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Aluminum foil
- Cake decorating nail
- Piping bags
- Royal icing, various colors
- Piping tips, various styles
- Flower former
- Airtight container
Instructions
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Cover the nail with aluminum foil, pressing it down to conform to the shape of the nail.
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Fill a piping bag with white royal icing and attach a 105 piping tip, which is a flattish, slightly triangulated tip. Fill another bag with yellow royal icing and attach a number 5 piping tip, which is a round tip with a small diameter.
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Pipe a small dot of yellow icing in the center of the nail as a reference point, holding the piping bag at 90 degrees, or upright. You should hold the nail by the handle, with the piping bag in your writing hand.
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Hold the white icing piping bag at 45 degrees. Starting from the outside of the nail, pipe a single petal that is thin at the tip and becomes wider at the middle and tapers at the center. Do this at the 12, 9, 6 and 3 o'clock points so that you have four petals, evenly spaced, then pipe 2 more petals in between each of the original four to have 12 petals in total.
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Hold the yellow piping bag at 90 degrees above the center of the nail where the original reference dot was placed. Pipe another dot on top of the petals and gently press it with the tip of a finger to slightly flatten it.
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Remove the aluminum foil with the icing flower from the nail. Place it in a flower former (a curved plastic half-pipe) to dry. You can use the flowers you make straight away on a cake, placing on top in any design you like, or you can make the flowers in advance and keep them stored in an airtight container.
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Tips & Warnings
Make a flat daisy piped directly onto baking paper.
If you are confident with your piping, pipe flowers directly onto cakes.
References
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