My first sugar flowers are simple five-petal flowers.They are made of five identical petals which are stuck together with water and then left to dry for a while.
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| Close up of a flower |
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| Flowers and leaves drying. All cut out with the same cutter. |
The sugarpaste is coloured with food colouring paste, not liquid, so the colour is much deeper without making the icing too sticky.
Flowers and leaves on madeira cakes:
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| Edges of the cake are painted with silver dusting powder. |
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Bottom of the cake edged with twisted strips again.
The edges of the flower petals are highlighted with silver. |
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