I am making a cake that will have drop flowers for the borders. I started thinking about how much would go to waste if I make the flowers out of royal vs. buttercream. i.e. The buttercream tastes better and may get eaten. So last night I made a bunch of flowers. I have no idea how many I actually will need to use, but all I keep thinking about is how fragile they are and I wonder if they will make it to the birthday party. I guess I should have made the royal icing flowers instead. I still have time, but I just dread having to do it all over again, especially making the icing and trying to match up the colors. This isn't an official disaster yet, but it could easily turn into one. Yikes!

Hey, your not an idiot! I had to make a ton of little drop flowers for Wilton Course 1 and they were all made out of buttercream. Just give them enought time to harden on the counter (not the fridge). Of course you will need to make extra for breakage but most of them will make it!

You can freeze the bc flowers and then put them on the cake frozen...easy to handle and they'll be nice and soft at serving time.

Hmmm....as long as you have a lot of extras...in case something does go wrong you should be ok.

I think they'll be ok if they dry for a long enough time.

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try freezing the flowers, and put them on the cake frozen.
I do this all the time with my roses, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work with drops.
Good Luck!

Bless you all. I am so glad I got such great responses. I was starting to get knots in my stomach.

I freeze my roses too!! It really does make them easier to handle and decorate with. You should have no problem. I wish I could figure out how to do hydrangea styled or tulips in buttercream!!!!

I would love to see your cake when it is done!!!!

I don't know if I will want to post this cake. The combinations that were asked for may not turn out to well. We will see. LOL

With all this freezing do you have problems with the frosting cracking.

I never had any problems with cracking
They look like they were just made!

Here is a picture of the cake I have been worrying over.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&pos=-37279

(edited because I put the wrong link in the first time.)

I freeze all of my pre-made buttercream flowers! It works great, and they are SOOOOOO much easier to put on the cake.

The drop flowers tend to thaw pretty quickly, so you may have to pop them back into the freezer a few times before your done. I have never had a problem with cracking, except for an occasional break when I'm lifting them off of the wax paper.

It turned out great. The colors go very well with the image on the cake, I like them. Of course I may be partial because my name is Kirsten.

Wow, what a beautiful cake!

Thanks for the compliments, koolaidstains and samsgranny. I really appreciate it.

Wow, the cake turned out great. The colors are lovely.

Cindy

The cake is very pretty and you did a great job. See, you worked yourself up for nothing. LOL.

~Josie