It was the first time I had made sunflowers and I love the challenge of making new flowers and designs! They were pretty easy considering the fact that the only daisy flower cutter I had to get the size of sunflower I wanted only had three petals on it! So I had to cut out about five smaller flowers and put them together to get the sunflower exactly how I wanted it. Then for the middle of the sunflower I just piped royal brown icing with a layer of yellow royal icing on the outside.
For bigger flowers like these, or as I like to call them "statement flowers", I always make a stem and and connect the flower and stem with royal icing just so the flower is more securley placed onto the actual cake. For the daises however, I just simply piped a dot of royal icing on the back of the flower and placed it on the cake, holding the flower in place for a few seconds to make sure it stuck!
Anytime I'm making flowers for a cake I always start them three days before the cake is due, it's important that you give the flowers plenty of time to dry. Using flowers too soon after forming them might keep the flowers from keeping their shape so take note!
Anyway, it was a beautiful, outside country wedding and the cake fit in beautifully with the rest of the decorations. I wish her and her new hubby a lifetime of happiness and laughther!
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