Use Candied Flowers For Creative Cake Decorating Styles
It is very common for you to see edible flowers being used to garnish a salad or to use it even as an ingredient to make the appetizer much tastier. Of course not all types of flowers are edible but it shouldn’t be hard for you to find as much options as you can find out there.
Nasturtiums have a Peppery flavor Chive blossoms taste like a mild sweet onion Roses Violas & Pansies taste a bit like grapes. Other edible flowers are apple blossoms almond lavender borage chamomile lovage lemon orange blossoms plum blossoms peach blossoms & squash blossoms. We also have daisies chrysanthemums geraniums marigolds jasmine lilacs & violets.
Candied Flowers
Candied flowers are great for desserts & in cake decorating. Here is recipe to make that you can use & even make your own when it comes to candied flowers for cake decorations.
Time to prepare 8 hrs. & 15 minutes
Yield 2 dozen flowers.
1/4 cup beaten egg whites
1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 cups edible flowers of your choice
Clean & blot flowers dry with a paper towel. With a paint brush brush on a thin layer of egg white on each side of the flower petals or blossoms. Place flowers into a shallow bowl of superfine sugar & sprinkle more sugar over the flowers so that they are coated. Make sure all of the flower has been sprinkled with sugar. Remove flowers & place them on a sheet of waxed paper. Sprinkle each flower with another layer of sugar again make sure the entire flower gets a layer of sugar.
Allow flowers to dry on the waxed paper for 8 hours. Store these tasty treats in an airtight container at room temperature until they are needed.
We are seeing more real flowers & fruit in cake decorating than ever before. The addition of these wonderful edible gifts of nature gives the cake an elegant look. Whether you are making a wedding anniversary retirement birthday or a cake for any special occasion you will get many compliments on your choice of decoration.
Cake decorating can be a bit frustrating & time consuming but once you learn the techniques & utilize the newest ideas when cake decorating you will find that it can be fun rewarding & lucrative. Most cake decorators have an artistic background or artistic talent.
If you are thinking of starting a cake decorating business at home you will need to keep up with the latest trends in cake decorating to be able to offer your clients new unique & wonderful choices. As with anything designs get old while some will stick with the traditional white or ivory for a wedding cake but there are those who want to step out of the mold & have a little color in their wedding cake.
Camille Heimbrod
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