Introduction: Easy, Stunning, Dimensional Icing Flowers
To make this royal icing flower you will need:
- Stiff consistency royal icing in one or two shades of red (or any other color)
- A petal piping tip (I used Wilton #104
)
- A flower nail(I used Wilton #7
)
- Decorating bags and couplers
- A pair of food safe tweezers
- Wax paper cut into small squares
Step 1:
Prepare your royal icing according to the directions of your favorite royal icing recipe. Color your icing using gel food coloring and load it into a decorating bag. To add a shaded effect to your flowers, load two different shades of icing into the same decorating bag.
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Gently remove the wax paper from your flower nail and set your icing flower aside until it is completely dry. I like to lay my icing flowers out on a cookie sheet overnight protected by a mesh food cover.
For more easy, stunning, dimensional icing flowers, check out the tutorials for Icing Flower #1 and Icing Flower #3.