Crystallized Saccharide Bloom Cake + For Target
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
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Contributor ship service past times Lyndsay of Coco Cake Land
Summer is here! Time for sunshine, flowers, vegetable gardens, romping to a greater extent than or less barefoot on the grass, jumping into lakes as well as hosting pretty flush parties alongside a burn pit as well as bottles of wine!
I e'er wished I had a summertime birthday. So many options for summery cook-outs, intimate lantern-lit outdoor dinner parties or bonfires as well as marshmallow roasting at the beach. My favourite business office of summertime is all of the fresh local berries as well as brilliant cheery flowers popping upwards everywhere. So I decided to brand a cake that is low-cal as well as fun - no heavy buttercream, but fresh whipped cream, tangy sweetness berries as well as crystallized bloom petals. Candying flowers is actually quite easy! Read on to to acquire how to brand crystallized saccharide flowers as well as tips for decorating a brilliant as well as beautiful summertime cake!
This calendar week we're besides celebrating the offset of both SUMMER (woot!) as well as the free of the for Target collection! The subject of the collection is glamping as well as I'm thus inwards dear alongside it all. I used the cake stands, paper plates, spoons as well as straws for this post! Add some colour, fun as well as glamour to your outdoor summertime parties! The collection launched this calendar week as well as is available inwards all Target stores! Click here to run into to a greater extent than as well as depository fiscal establishment jibe out the crystalized saccharide bloom recipe below.
Crystallized Sugar Flowers Tutorial
You volition need:
—Meringue pulverization (you tin uncovering this at cake supplies shops or that giant arts and crafts superstore, or online)
—1/4 loving cup of superfine saccharide (you tin brand this past times blending regular saccharide inwards a nutrient processor until fine!)
—Organic unsprayed pansies or rose petals
Line a baking canvas alongside parchment paper. Gently launder your flowers. In a pocket-sized bowl, mix together two teaspoons of meringue pulverization alongside two tablespoons of water. Fill some other pocket-sized bowl alongside superfine sugar.
Handling the flowers gently, dunk your petals into the meringue pulverization mixture to coat completely.
Remove the petal from the moisture mixture as well as house it into the sugar, turning it over to coat both sides.
Continue the procedure for all of your flowers as well as petals; allow them dry out completely overnight. That's it! The adjacent twenty-four hr catamenia your flowers volition survive crisp petty sugared flowers, similar crunchy saccharide bloom chips! (did I consume a few similar chips? I might've, yes.) They add together both a uncomplicated prettiness as well as crispy lovely texture to a cake or cupcake!
My technique for decorating this cake was to laissez passer it a natural feel, inspired past times a sweetness summertime day. I filled the cake alongside a uncomplicated vanilla buttercream as well as left the sides bare (apart from frosting it as well as thus removing it to laissez passer it a rustic feel!). I made fresh whipped cream past times whipping two cups of whipping cream alongside two teaspoons of sugar. Using a spatula, I spread the whipped cream on summit of the cake as well as added raspberries, the crystallized pansies as well as begonias as well as geranium petals from my backyard.
Meet The Contributor
Lyndsay Sung is a bakery as well as blogger at Coco Cake Land. She loves super cute cakes, sweetness blueprint as well as snacks. She lives inwards Vancouver, Canada alongside her husband as well as toddler son.
Summer is here! Time for sunshine, flowers, vegetable gardens, romping to a greater extent than or less barefoot on the grass, jumping into lakes as well as hosting pretty flush parties alongside a burn pit as well as bottles of wine!
I e'er wished I had a summertime birthday. So many options for summery cook-outs, intimate lantern-lit outdoor dinner parties or bonfires as well as marshmallow roasting at the beach. My favourite business office of summertime is all of the fresh local berries as well as brilliant cheery flowers popping upwards everywhere. So I decided to brand a cake that is low-cal as well as fun - no heavy buttercream, but fresh whipped cream, tangy sweetness berries as well as crystallized bloom petals. Candying flowers is actually quite easy! Read on to to acquire how to brand crystallized saccharide flowers as well as tips for decorating a brilliant as well as beautiful summertime cake!
This calendar week we're besides celebrating the offset of both SUMMER (woot!) as well as the free of the for Target collection! The subject of the collection is glamping as well as I'm thus inwards dear alongside it all. I used the cake stands, paper plates, spoons as well as straws for this post! Add some colour, fun as well as glamour to your outdoor summertime parties! The collection launched this calendar week as well as is available inwards all Target stores! Click here to run into to a greater extent than as well as depository fiscal establishment jibe out the crystalized saccharide bloom recipe below.
Crystallized Sugar Flowers Tutorial
You volition need:
—Meringue pulverization (you tin uncovering this at cake supplies shops or that giant arts and crafts superstore, or online)
—1/4 loving cup of superfine saccharide (you tin brand this past times blending regular saccharide inwards a nutrient processor until fine!)
—Organic unsprayed pansies or rose petals
Line a baking canvas alongside parchment paper. Gently launder your flowers. In a pocket-sized bowl, mix together two teaspoons of meringue pulverization alongside two tablespoons of water. Fill some other pocket-sized bowl alongside superfine sugar.
Handling the flowers gently, dunk your petals into the meringue pulverization mixture to coat completely.
Remove the petal from the moisture mixture as well as house it into the sugar, turning it over to coat both sides.
Continue the procedure for all of your flowers as well as petals; allow them dry out completely overnight. That's it! The adjacent twenty-four hr catamenia your flowers volition survive crisp petty sugared flowers, similar crunchy saccharide bloom chips! (did I consume a few similar chips? I might've, yes.) They add together both a uncomplicated prettiness as well as crispy lovely texture to a cake or cupcake!
My technique for decorating this cake was to laissez passer it a natural feel, inspired past times a sweetness summertime day. I filled the cake alongside a uncomplicated vanilla buttercream as well as left the sides bare (apart from frosting it as well as thus removing it to laissez passer it a rustic feel!). I made fresh whipped cream past times whipping two cups of whipping cream alongside two teaspoons of sugar. Using a spatula, I spread the whipped cream on summit of the cake as well as added raspberries, the crystallized pansies as well as begonias as well as geranium petals from my backyard.
Meet The Contributor
Lyndsay Sung is a bakery as well as blogger at Coco Cake Land. She loves super cute cakes, sweetness blueprint as well as snacks. She lives inwards Vancouver, Canada alongside her husband as well as toddler son.