I did this for a baby shower for some friends. Gabby made all the flowers. They are made by cutting out 3 different sized circles and lightly ruffling the edges on the thin foam with the ball tool.
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Princess and the Frog
This was Lizzy's "Princess and the Frog" inspired cake. I was suprised at how easy and quick the pillow was to do. i just carved the sides in and layed the fondant on and quilted using a ruler and my embossing tool. It probably took me 40 min. total to carve and color and cover and quilt and draggee. all the pillows that I saw online were rounded on top but I carved the middle going inward with a X shape. (It ended up not mattering because I put the lilly pad on top).
Lizzy thought of the blue color for the pillow because it was "like water" which I thought was genius. I was just gonna do purple.
The lilly pad was just a circle then I went over the edges to give them a wavy look and of course put the lines and the slit in it. Looking at the picture now, I think the lilly pad should be bigger. Everything was sprayed with a pearl luster dust-vodka mix.
The crown is gumpaste and I just cut it out with a large cookie cutter and let it dry in my Wilton Flower former tray. Then painted purple. I should have tinted the gumpaste and then sprayed it with the color.
The buttons on the tassel are wierd but it was late at night and I was tired and didn't care all that much. I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time. I hand-rolled the tassel strings. BTW-Jacob actually made me an extruder everyone! I was SO excited! He just needs to drill the hole sizes that I want into the different tips that he got. Now that I did this pillow with the tassels, I now know what size holes to make him do!
The lilly flower was made out of a cutter in my Wilton flower kit. I really just winged it. I shaped it in a cupcake tin and let it dry. I wish I could have dusted the lilly flower better but I wasn't that into it. Maybe next time I will color the gumpaste slightly as well. The ends are really fragile as you can tell. one petal broke and some are just curled up a little.
Lizzy loved it and it was really fun to make.
Thanks for the ganache tips, Shelley! It tasted like heaven. :)
Lizzy thought of the blue color for the pillow because it was "like water" which I thought was genius. I was just gonna do purple.
The lilly pad was just a circle then I went over the edges to give them a wavy look and of course put the lines and the slit in it. Looking at the picture now, I think the lilly pad should be bigger. Everything was sprayed with a pearl luster dust-vodka mix.
The crown is gumpaste and I just cut it out with a large cookie cutter and let it dry in my Wilton Flower former tray. Then painted purple. I should have tinted the gumpaste and then sprayed it with the color.
The buttons on the tassel are wierd but it was late at night and I was tired and didn't care all that much. I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time. I hand-rolled the tassel strings. BTW-Jacob actually made me an extruder everyone! I was SO excited! He just needs to drill the hole sizes that I want into the different tips that he got. Now that I did this pillow with the tassels, I now know what size holes to make him do!
The lilly flower was made out of a cutter in my Wilton flower kit. I really just winged it. I shaped it in a cupcake tin and let it dry. I wish I could have dusted the lilly flower better but I wasn't that into it. Maybe next time I will color the gumpaste slightly as well. The ends are really fragile as you can tell. one petal broke and some are just curled up a little.
Lizzy loved it and it was really fun to make.
Thanks for the ganache tips, Shelley! It tasted like heaven. :)
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