I have to make approx. 70 roses, possibly more, for a wedding order Dec 28th. It's really bad timing, being just a couple days after Christmas, so I was thinking of making them ahead of time out of royal icing. I know you can also make them buttercream and freeze them, but I was thinking royal would be easier to store, what with the turkey, christmas baking, etc... taking up a lot of freezer space. Do you royal icing roses would be ok, or would it ruin the taste of the cake?

Melissa

i think they would be fine. do you do fondant or gumpaste? if so, they make beautiful roses and will hold up until then.

I think that would be fine...people could take the roses off if they did not want to eat it. It is kind of like fondant...looks great on the cake...but lots of people end up pelling it off when they eat the cake!

I love royal just for that reason--storage! I have found that even roses done in buttercream get picked off--I think if you're over age 10 that more icing is not necessarily a good thing. And even my under 10 year olds here at home won't touch fondant. I think it will work out wonderfully!

Why not do buttercream roses and store them in a cake box out of the way? They will dry hardish on the outside, but stay soft inside.

The royal icing flowers has my vote..they dry harder and aren't as likely to get messed up handling them!!