Icing Flowers

It's been many many years since I've played around with icing and honestly, I had completely forgotten how much fun it is. The mission was to make icing roses and leaves for my housemate's parents anniversary cake..... we definitely succeeded. However it did leave us with a yellow stained dining room table and blue stained hands, but sacrifices had to be made. We were pretty chuffed with the outcome and the method was quick and easy as we had very limited tools available.

So here is the first of many tutorials for you. I hope you enjoy it and have fun giving it a go yourself.

Icing Flower Tutorials

1: Use food colouring to dye your ready-to-roll icing to your desired colour (this is the messy bit), then separate the icing into 8 small balls all of an equal size and 1 smaller sausage shape and place into a plastic wallet which has been cut open.
2: close the wallet over the icing and use your thumb to flatten the top edge of each ball to make a petal shape, do the same with one side of the sausage.
3: peal the sausage shape off the plastic and roll up to make the centre of the rose.
4: add each petal to the centre piece overlapping over the joins, making sure the fatter edges are at the bottom.
5: once all the petals are added, cut the bottom off with scissors and smooth off the edge.
6: Optional - cut out leaf shapes from rolled out green icing and you have a finished icing flower :)