can someone tell me what im doing wrong? this is my 1st try at royal icing flowers. these will be on top of the wedding cake....
Please help! and it dries up sooo fast! the 1st flower came out nice and smooth... then after that.. they werent. and they seem to droop a little? i beat the mixture for 13 minutes! thanks!

im going to post them in my photos! thanks!

I don't see anything wrong with them!

really? the outter leaves are just sooo droopy?? i dont know... i gotta redo them... lol. they dont look right to me?

When i see other's fowers, they seem soo perky??

We are our own worst critics!!! LOL

Ute, there is nothing wrong w/ the roses! You are beating yourself up. They look very good!! Go ahead & use them there is nothing wrong w/ them. You are your worst critic.. like Rox said!

THEY ARE VERY PRETTY!!!

You better use those flowers!!!! They look great....you should see some of my royal icing roses!

there is nothing wrong with the royal or your roses. If you feel the outer tips are too droopy it could be the angle at which you were hold the tip.

no critic here mine still look like cabbages.

I wonder if the difference you see is the # of petals on the outside layer. those real perky ones seem to have smaller and more petals.

try 7 petals after your layer of 5

perky rose makers is this correct????

I know on my gumpaste ones each layer has more petals than the last and in odd #s

some will do 3, 5 then 7 petals. for me the more petals i do the worse my rose looks. When you are doing the last layer of roses you really have to pay attention to the angle and position of your bag. You also should really paying attention to the motion of your hands.

I usually will do buttercream flowers, i hardly use royal. But I will make any flower that I can on wax paper and then let them either sit on the counter or put them in the freeze. This way i can just pick them up and place them on the cake and if i dont like where i put them I can take them right off.

As far as roses I will usually do three then 5. Sometimes I will do the outer layer with 7 or maybe use less then 7. It really all depends on how the rose looks after 5 and what I am trying to do.

well,i went out took the boys to the park, came home and read the posts. you guys are right, when i got home and read them, i went to look at the flowers,, they dont look all that bad!
thanks guys!
Later, im going to try some more, using less petals. i think that maybe one think that will look better!!

THANKS!

They're great, mine dont even resemble anything, use them.

momofthree, hey,,,,,why arent you taking the wilton course 2? they teach royal flowers and mine started right after the course 1
just wondering, i thought you were going to take all the wilton courses
i'm doing the course 2 now, and am loving it!!!!!
happy baking!]
melody

Hey everyone....hello.....for me I use that tip that makes my roses look like those "victorian" style. It seems for me I am able to get the flower petal to bend down better and my roses "seem" to come out ok for me. You can see my roses in my mothers day cake. Now those roses I did make out of the royal icing. I too like it when they harden a little for better placing.

I love to make my apple blossoms and the petunias, I just try to keep mine the same color and then add a tiny bit of white in the "bud" part, I mean the center part. Or I will add a color streak to the white royal icing so that the tips come out with some color.
I do make buttercream when I have too, but they are just so delicate when placing them.. But I love the color on them..

See ya...

Ute,

The # tip for the victorian rose should be in your book. I think it is 101s. I'm not sure. I like the victorian rose too. I haven't made roses in royal, I'll need to try it! I like using royal icing better the BC. To me it's easier.

Glad you finally agree w/ us that your roses are fine!

Hello again....The tips I use for my victorian roses are #97 and #59s.

I at first just played around with them to see which rose would come out better and so far both tips work ok for me.

I also somehow got this HUGE tip sheet that shows what tips do what from Wilton. I honestly can't remember how I got this sheet. But it has come in handy a great deal for me.

I think if you go to the Wilton sight, there might be something on this or in one of the old yearbooks.