How to Make Fondant Roses – Cake Decorating Series

So far in our cake decorating series we have made a cake and covered it with butter cream frosting and fondant. These are very important skills to learn, but not nearly as fun as making creative decorations! In this part of the cake decorating series, we are going to get creative and make some beautiful fondant roses to put on top of our cake.

If you are new to the cake decorating series, take a look at some of the past recipes and tutorials:

• Red Velvet Cake Recipe
• Delicious Butter Cream Frosting
• Make Your Own Rolled Fondant
• Covering a Cake with Fondant

Directions:

1. For the best results, watch the instructional video below.
2. To color your fondant, dip a toothpick into your food coloring and then place that small amount of coloring onto your fondant. Knead the fondant to mix in the coloring. Keep your counter dusted with icing sugar to avoid having the fondant stick.
3. Continue adding coloring one toothpick at a time as needed. It is better to add small amounts of coloring because you can always add more. But if you add too much, you can’t take it away.
4. For our decorations, we made a small amount of green fondant to make leaves, a small amount of pink fondant for roses and left a small amount of fondant uncolored (white) for roses as well.
5. To make the leaves, roll the green fondant flat. In the video below I use a leaf cutter, which is a small plastic cutter in the shape of a leaf, but it isn’t necessary. You can also use a sharp knife to cut the leaves by hand.
6. Once you have the leaves cut out, add a little bit of detail by making small marks with a knife.
7. To make the roses, start with a small piece of colored fondant, about the size of a pea. Cover your fingers with icing sugar to prevent your fingers from sticking when you are working with the fondant. Shape the fondant to look like a teardrop.
8. Pinch one side of your tear shape thin, to make a shape that resembles an ear. Wrap the thin side that you have pinched out around the un-pinched side to make a rosebud.
9. Next, take another pea sized piece of fondant. This time, you will want to flatten the entire piece of fondant to make a rose petal. Wrap this rose petal around the bud that you made in the previous step.
10. If you wanted, you could stop here. These make great rosebud decorations and when mixed on a cake with full roses, they make for a great display.
11. To continue making the full rose decoration, pinch out more rose petals from the fondant. Continue adding the petals to the flower until you are pleased with the size. Let the tops of the petals hang over a little for added effect.

That’s it! After a little practice you will be making beautiful bouquets of fondant roses! Coming up next week we will create some more fondant decorations. Enjoy!