I am working on my flowers and color flow for the wilton course II final cake. The flowers are royal icing. Here are my problems:
1) I can't figure out how to do the violet. Instructor tried to show me, but I didn't get it (nobody did!)
2) I can't get the Victorion rose right. My base keeps falling over and I am not holding my tip properly for the petals.
3) My color flow is not smooth
Any tips or advice would really help!
TIA
Chrissy
1. What part of the violet are you having problems with? You are going to do the petal shapes like you did with the apple blossom. Pipe out, turn nail to form the curve of the petal and pipe back down. Your tip/bag postion shouldn't move. Your flower nail does the work for ya. You do three petals following the template. Then two smaller petals (black traingles with smaller white triangles in it) opposite the first three petals. To finish it you put two tip 1 dots where the two sets of petals met.
2. You do the base of the Vic rose the same as you do the buttercream rose in C1. If it is falling over, my guess is that you are either making it too skinny or the icing is too soft? As far as the tip, you use it like the 104. Large in down, smaller in up. 11 o'clock for the center petal, 12 o'clock first row of three, 1 o'clock second row of 5 and 2 o'clock for the third row of seven.
3. Can you take a picture of the color flow piece? I'm unclear of what you mean by not smooth. Where is it not smooth?
I take the templates in the back of the course two book and copy those on card stock. Then laminate them. And put those on my flower nail so I can follow the size/shape exactly for the violet, apple blossom, pansy, etc. Makes flower making go Sooooooo much easier IMO than trying to figure out where to stop and start each petal. I could probably do them w/out the template on the flower nail now (since I've been doing them for a few years now) but I still use the templates because it's just so much easier.
I am going to class three of course ii tomorrow night and i seem to be the only one having trouble with the flowers. the room is so small the instructors arm blocks my view when he shows us how to do the flowers. and i can't seem to get my royal icing right. if its not perfect the flowers won't turn out right. its not turning out to be as fun as i thought it would be. its frustrating. i do not like the parchment paper bags. mine always fall apart. maybe i'll start using disposable bags. hopefully that will help.
I folded parchment paper bags to prove I could do them, and I have not used them since. In fact, I think I've used some of those parchment triangles to cut up for squares to put my flowers on when I'm making them. I'm not much into washing bags either, so I go with the disposable. Get them in a box of 100 with a 40% off coupon at Michaels when they have the coupons out (which they have a LOT). I have gotten a few bad boxes, but for the most part, they work really well. Our teacher really did not push the parchment bags on us (although we did have to fold like 40 of them at the first class).
I always have used disposable bags. Our instructor did not require us to buy parchment bags nor did she make us fold any.
Most of my flowers look o.k. I just can't get the violet or the victorion rose. It seemed as though everyone in the class had a hard time with the violets.
Just so you know, those disposable bags wash real easy with hot soap and water and you can get several uses out of them. It really makes it worth every penny.
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