Spring Fondant Flowers

I recently made some fondant flowers in my Baking Club.  

Our Club made roughly a hundred of these fondant flowers and 

put them on cupcakes which we made and then sold with the  

proceeds going to the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I made the fondant flowers again for my own cupcakes the 

same weekend I received my copy of the current Southern Living in the mail. 

On it's cover it features cut-out fondant flowers.

They called their's hydrangeas. Aren't they lovely?

The magazine includes steps on how to make them.

 Here are my fondant flowers - ready and sitting pretty.

Air is fondant's worse enemy, so I kept them in a covered 

plastic container until ready to apply.  Also, if you

plan to refrigerate your cupcakes overnight, especially

if you are using a buttercream frosting, wait to 

apply the fondant flowers until the next day.

The flowers themselves are quite easy to make, especially

if you purchase pre-made fondant.  Any cake decorating supply store

sells it, including Michael's.  I keep white on hand and can color it

myself should I wish to.  These tools are made for fondant.  

There are more tools in the complete set but the ones pictured

are the ones I am using for my fondant flowers.  These tools

can be purchased at cake decorating supply stores, 

Michael's, and WalMart.

The fondant is rolled out using a fondant roller, 

cut using a flower cutter of your choice, 

then a texture is applied by a tool of your choice,

and painted with the edible luster dust.  I placed three small

yellow candy sprinkle-balls in the center of my flowers.

These fondant flowers were placed atop my Cherry Cupcakes 

with a Cherry-Almond Butter Frosting. You can find these 

cupcakes and their recipes here.

Thank you for visiting.

Fondly,

Karen