Baking Project

Frangipani flower and cake

May 06, 2008 By: Min Category: Fondant cakes & projects, Gum paste projects

I was leafing through my cake decorating book and saw this beautiful frangipani flowers (kemboja). Tried doing it last night, the gumpaste flowers were left to dry in egg cartons on top of my fridge. Somehow, I find this method always speed up the drying of the flowers. By today, the frangipanis are quite hard. So, this is the cake I came out with :

The gumpaste flowers, to me, doesn’t really look real. I tried to make a blooming frangipani, but it was quite difficult as the base of the petal is too thin and breaks easily. So I guess I’ll have to stick to not-so-blooming kemboja.

For the cake, I use two layers of fondant. Then I make the swag. You can learn how to make the swag (yang macam langsir tu..) from cakecentral.com. Add the tiny pearls at the base of the cake. Lastly, I arrange the flowers and leaves. I’ll do a post on how to make the frangipani later, ok. For the shiny look, I squeeze a few drops of lemon juice, added my pearl dust and painted the swags and the red pearly thingy.

I guess that’s it. My swags and ribbon do need some improvement. But I’m quite happy with the results .

Bye for now,

p/s : 13/5/08 - I found a good tutorial on how to make the frangipanis. Click here.

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11 Responses to “ Frangipani flower and cake ”

1. # 1 Zara Miravent Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 3:36 am

   It looks beautiful Jasmin! Lovely flowers!

2. # 2 zaitgha Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 7:29 am

   i like …i like….btw the small pearls tuh fondant or royal icing?…i love the colors combination…..you have a flair for this kind of thing, thanks for sharing

3. # 3 Min Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am

   Thanks Zara, haven’t heard from you for quite some time. You must be busy..

   Zai, bunga from gum paste, small pearls tu from fondant. Tak guna royal icing. Thanks , love reading your comments.

4. # 4 fabmom Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

   absolutely beautiful! u r so good in this.

5. # 5 boxhousestudio Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

   2 layers of fondant?..emm..err…leh explain…he he

   yang pasti kek min ni memikat..dengan pearl merah berkilat tu…dengan kuak ropol tu ..riben tu..dengan bunga kemboja..sedap mata memandang

6. # 6 Min Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

   Fabmom, lama tak dengar cerita..mesti masih euphoria dari balik holiday ni.

   Kak Tun, itu la pasal kena join class saya. Utk kek fondant, ada yg pakai marzipan first layer, 2nd layer fondant. Boleh jugak buat 2 layer fondant. Kalau selapis je kak, kek nye tak cantik, masih nampak bersegi dan permukaannya tak licin..

7. # 7 rachel Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

   You do beautiful work. I really like the flowers, I am not sure what the real ones look like, but those are pretty.

   I am trying to improve my cake decorating skills and will be back to your site to learn new tips.

8. # 8 Min Says:
   May 8th, 2008 at 6:37 am

   Thanks Rachel, I see you hv beautiful cakes on your site. Good luck to you.

9. # 9 aishah Says:
   May 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am

   cantik la min……..

10. # 10 Cakelaw Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    Another lovely cake - frangipanis are my favourtie flowers.

11. # 11 Min Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Thanks Aishah, nanti boleh la I ajar nak buatnye..

    Thanks also Cakelaw. First time I heard from you, r u local ?

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