Ribbon Roses

Name: Ribbon Roses
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 50 g bag white royal icing; 80 cm 35 mm-wide green organza ribbon; 3 artificial leaves; icing sugar, to dust; 3 × 1 m lengths 38 mm-wide wired ribbon, in different colours; 1 pot peach and/or 1 pot primrose food colour paste; 3 tbsp apricot jam; 1 kg white sugarpaste; 1 pot peach and/or 1 pot primrose food colour paste

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

These roses are very quick and easy and there’s no sewing. I used realistic colours but yours can be in crazy shades, if you prefer. They can, of course, be made months ahead.

Ingredients

1 × Cherry and Marzipan Cake, baked in a round tin

Vegetarian
Baking
Cake

Method

Colour the sugarpaste the day before, if possible. I made a clotted cream tone, using the 2 shades listed here.

Warm the jam gently in a pan, sieve it and brush all over the cake. Dust a clean work surface with icing sugar and roll out the sugarpaste into a circle roughly as big as the diameter and sides of the cake, and no thinner than 5mm. Keep

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