How Long Does It Take You To Make A Gumpaste Of Fondant Rose
Decorating By mami2sweeties Updated 13 Sep 2005 , 2:24am by SquirrellyCakes
I was wondering about the time frame on this type of work? I have always made royal or buttercream but need to try this this week.
You need to allow plenty of time for gumpaste or fondant to dry ... I would think about 48 hours or so to thoroughly dry and this would also depend on humidity in your area too.
Quite a bit longer. A lot depends on if you have a step saving cutter which makes several petals at one time or individual petal cutters. Also , you have to make your base and allow it to dry, usually overnight. Then you do a row of petals and allow drying time, a few hours in between rows of petals normally. I tend to dry flowers upside down to keep the petals from drooping. It could take you say, a couple of weeks to do 300 roses when it is a new process. So total actual work time for one rose could be anywhere from 3-15 minutes depending on experience.
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
Wow.. just trying to figure out the time spent on some of the cake here.. There are so many beautiful cakes in the galleries that have tons of gumpaste or fondant arrangements on them. You sure have to love what you are doing to spend all that time on them.
Liz
It takes me about 2 hours to make a "full size" rose. See my pix. I use an electric pasta maker to roll the gumpaste to a uniform width (which is very fast as well as helpful). and then cut all pedals at one time (placing them under wraps to keep them from drying) and then work on a petal at a time. Drying time (depending on humidity) is usually 48 hours. I make the base ahead of time, so that's all dry when I start. I place all petals on in that one sitting. Good luck. 
Wow BJ, your roses are perfect. My trouble is getting that perfect curve on the petals. Do you hold it there until it stiffens up? I let it stand upright and they drooped, and when I hung them upsidedown they were flat.
This is using the Wilton kit. Is that any good?
I also want to try making my own recipe instead of the Wilton mix. I heard that's bad.
How do you keep the flowers from falling off the toothpick or whatever they are on when you hang them upside down?
My biggest challenge practicing these is the bases come right off the toothpick.. and makes it hard to work with the rose.
Well, I am using Wilton fondant for these, I have made homemade and tried others but for the roses, I prefer Wilton. Ok, so I roll the ball, then I put a little dab of Royal glue which is a mixture of 1 tsp. meringue powder mixed into 1 tsp. water. Use a small paint brush. Then put the ball on the toothpick. If you are using a wire, make one end of the wire into a small hook. Then thread the toothpick or wire through the ball of fondant and shape it like a teardrop or inner bud. Sometimes I take the slighly dampened brush and brush smooth the lower part. So you let this dry rightside up for about 8 hours. I shape the petal open, let is sit a few minutes then turn it upside down. Your other option it to put all the petals on, shape them and tie loosely, a piece of tissue paper or parchent or such to hole it in place. I haven't had any droop since I started using these two methods.
Are you using Royal glue as you apply the petals? You must use it on the inner edge of the petal so that the petals sticks to the toothpick and centre bulb. Personally I find this works better than dampening with water as some people do.
Hugs Squirrelly
AH HA!!!!!! Royal glue... Thank you so much!!
I have just been using vanilla, which I was taught in Wilton class. i have been using the Wilton fondant to for now.
Even in class it was happening to the instructor and we were all like, How are you supposed to keep it on there.. her answer was to just hold it. it was a lot of fun trying to hold this flower in one hand and do everything else with the next set of petals in the other. ARG
Royal glue it is!!! Thanks again!!
Heehee and doing three to five petals maximum at a time and squishing the bottom of them, the sort of bulb shaped bottom.
If you are making really huge roses, even letting them dry awhile after each petal may help a lot.
Hugs Squirrelly
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