R – Roses on Cakes (A to Z April Blogging Challenge 2014)

Two years ago, when I was a lost soul, I wouldn’t have imagined in the wildest of my dreams that I would one day make cakes for a living. And yet, here I am. Baking cakes, designing them, and having an absolooooooodely gala time 🙂

However when people see my cakes now, they probably think that I have always had it easy. How did I fail? Let me count the ways…

1. I made cakes which were fit for the dustbin. You couldn’t break them even with a hammer.

2. I made frostings which were too runny, too cakey, and sometimes sickeningly sweet.

3. I made ganache which must have seized a gazillion times before I got it right.

4. I made chocolate mousse which seized into a grainy mess.

5. I made horrid modeling chocolate which kept melting in my hands.

6. My first fondant cake was an icky sticky mess.

7. I got negative feedback from all my early clients.

8. I almost gave up.

But something stuck. Like my resolve to try and work around my mistakes. I still make mistakes… lots and lots of mistakes from which I am learning on a daily basis. Only now my cakes are softer, and my clients love them 🙂

One of my favorite things on cakes are roses. They are elegant, beautiful and take ordinary cakes to another level entirely.

Roses can be made in a number of ways.

1. With gum paste (they don’t get eaten but are my favorite)

2. With modeling chocolate (they look yum, and they taste yum)

3. With whipped cream/buttercream using rose tip

4. With whipped cream/buttercream using large star tip

These are my gum paste roses

These are my modeling chocolate roses

With whipped cream using rose tip on a rose nail

WIth whipped cream using a star tip

Out of all of these the roses with the star tip were the easiest. All you have to do is fill a piping bag fitted with the star tip, with your frosting, and start frosting in a circular motion from center outwards, building up on the center as you go. Viola, your elegant whipped cream roses are ready 🙂

I sure do hope to make many more roses as the years progress 🙂

Happy DIYing everyone!

This post has been written for the A to Z April Blogging Challenge 2014.

Also linking it to the Ultimate Blog Challenge

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