Once you have gone to the trouble of covering a cake with a smooth, even layer of fondant and spent plenty of time creating 3-D flowers also molded from fondant, you don't want to destroy all your hard work by attaching the flowers incorrectly. Not only could you wreck the surface of your cake, you could also break your flowers or have the forms droop and fall later on. Knowing properly attach the flowers will ensure that your cake stays together in the hours or days after you have completed it instead of coming apart. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Instructions
1. Allow your flowers to dry after creating them, at least overnight. Fondant does not spoil, so feel free to make them as far in advance as you want.
2. Mix 1/4 tsp. water with 1 oz. fondant. It will be a soft and sticky-feeling paste with a somewhat thinner consistency than the regular fondant. It the mixture isn't very sticky, add a few more drops of water. Put the thinned fondant in a pastry bag.
3. Using the pastry bag, pipe onto the fondant-covered cake the thinned fondant where you want to attach your fondant flower.
4. Gently press and hold the flower against the cake until it sticks. This should only take a few seconds.
5. If the fondant gets too hard as you are working and you have trouble piping it out out of the pastry bag, microwave it at half power for a few seconds to soften it.
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