Frangipani flower and cake
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 
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Bye for now,
p/s : 13/5/08 - I found a good tutorial on how to make the frangipanis. Click here.
