Daisies and a bad mum

Saturday, December 4, 2010

My third fondant and gum paste class was about making more flowers and learning to cover a cake board with fondant. The latter was really boring so I only have a picture of the flowers:


We started with daisies and they were a breeze compared with the roses and carnations from the second class. We quickly moved onto mums, which I had trouble with because I had the daisy/mum cutters from the previous class kit and they didn't fit the mum base properly. That's why there's a bright white spot in the middle of the flower and the petals are the wrong size. The smaller peach coloured flower was when I had a little leftover fondant and wanted to start a daisy.

The last class will be about decorating an actual cake. My plan is to use up a bow I made in the first class so the cake will be pretty plain, but I plan to make a second complete cake soon so that one will incorporate flowers.

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