How Do I Make Snap Dragon Flowers?
Decorating By AmberWinter Updated 22 Jul 2006 , 12:42am by ozcake
I am making my sisters bridal shower cakes and would like to incorpate her flowers on them. The two flowers are Carnations and Snap Dragons. I cannot find a book or any information on the internet on how to make Snap Dragons out of icing? Can anyone help me?
I've never used gumpaste but the problem is, I can't figure out tips and the how to's of creating the flower itself?? I even went to my local cake product store where I took my basic and advanced decorating classes and the owner and I tried for about 20-30 minutes to figure out how to make one?? Can anyone help?
I would like to know, too...All I could find were these...HTH
Wilton has a fondant punch that's supposed to have a snapdragon...
Here is a link to a book.Book 10 by Pat Ashby & Orchard Products
Product ID #18932 ...
globalsugarart.com/customer/product.php?productid=18932&cat=694&page=1
Good luck!
IMPOSSIBLE! I know that sounds negative, but I didn't know what snapdragons were, so I googled some images. I couldn't begin to figure out how to make them! Here are a couple of pictures of REAL snapdragons, not icing. Good luck, I hope somebody answers you.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/flowers/images/large/snap2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/flowers/Snapd94.htm&h=400&w=441&sz=57&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=BJuu6VpwbNGf0M:&tbnh=115&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsnapdragon%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
http://z.about.com/d/healing/1/0/J/S/feg_snapdragon.jpg
Alan Dunn's book "Sugar Flowers for all Seasons" has how to do snap dragons in it. He uses a cutter but there is an all in one piece of gumpaste that he uses for the bottom petal (weird shaped kind of like a normal flower petal shape with 2 v shapes cut out of either side sort of near the middle an instead of being rounded aross the top it has 3 rounded bumps) and and there are 2 pieces that he uses for the top petals (sort of like a heart shape with a slightly rounded bottom instead of point).
He thins and frills out the top parts of the petals and with the bottom petal he pinches the edges of the V shaped bits together to give it that snap dragon shape. He uses the bottom part of the petals to attach all the bits together and to a very small sausage shape on a wire which goes in the middle of the petals but you don't really see it (if that makes sense)
I haven't ever tried these before but his finished product does look amazing.
HTH
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