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asked March 19th 2016

basket of flowers

i am doing a basket of flowers for a retirement cake. It is a fruit cake. Is it best to do the basket weave in royal icing. Also what flowers would you suggest. All american websites do theirs in buttercream but I want to do mine with sugr paste is that best

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i am doing a basket of flowers for a retirement cake. It is a fruit cake. Is it best to do the basket weave in royal icing. Also what flowers would you suggest. All american websites do theirs in buttercream but I want to do mine with sugr paste is that best

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If I did the basket weave in royal icing and the flowers in sugar paste do you think that would be ok. Not keen on buttercream

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Hello kathjoy

Have you seen the beautiful basket of flowers tutorial on the site? Here it is:

Flower Basket


It’s done in buttercream and looks really tasty! I think to make it royal icing would be a bit brittle.
Obviously if you do prefer to do it in sugarpaste it may take a little longer. Rose Macefield’s fishing basket cake could be a good guide for the weave if you need a bit of direction. Here’s the cake:

Catch of the Day


I’m sure there are lots more to choose from online, just giving you these two as a guide.

Hope you find the tutorials helpful, if you need anymore information please post again.

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That would work fine. The flowers would be brittle , although edible they wouldn’t be particularly nice to eat. I did Shawna McGreevy’s flower pot cake with gumpaste flowers, it looked lovely and the flowers were kept as a reminder of the day!
If you’d like to make it with royal icing and want it to be less brittle, add a teaspoon of glycerine to 450g of icing sugar. This will will give a softer consistency to the bite and be more pleasant. Alternatively you could make it all with piped ganache. Choice is yours!

ps just realised you have a fruit cake. Gumpaste flowers would be ideal for fruit cake. If it was done in buttercream or ganache it would have a shorter shelf life since they would go off faster than the cake. Stick to gumpaste! x

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