
Handle any emergency with Howcast’s First Aid app – howc.st Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds — wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. And I have fondant and gum paste mix. Fondant to keep it pretty moist while you’re working with it. Gum paste dries hard once it has some time to dry. A little bit of cornstarch to keep it from sticking to the table. And for this we want to roll it pretty thin, that will make the flower petals more realistic. So now we have it rolled out, it’s pretty thin, that way it will look more realistic once we get it punched out. So we have 4 different sizes of this flower cutter, and that will allow us to get the 4 different layers to really make it frilly. So we’ll start with the big one. We’ll have the big one and then one of each. And then now we want to frill the edges, because right now we have this cut flat edge and it’s really not very exciting once it’s stacked up. So we want to have this tool. It’s graduated and it comes to a point on the end. And that’s the end we want to use to frill the edges. So we just want to roll it back and forth. And it will kind of flatten and ruffle the edges to make it more realistic, more like a real flower petal. So you just want to hold it in one spot. Give it a couple …
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