How Do You Make Fondant Icing Roses?
Fondant is a dough-like icing made from gelatin, water, glucose, vegetable shortening, glycerin and powdered sugar. Bakers use it to give cakes a smooth, elegant appearance. It can be stamped with patterns or molded into shapes such as roses to adorn your confection. Decide what color you would like your rose, and shape your fondant into a large ball. Color the fondant according to this simple method from Wilton: dip a toothpick into icing dye and prick the fondant in several places. Knead the fondant until it is a uniform color. Add more dye to make the color bolder. To shape the rose, Sugarcraft advises beaking off a piece of fondant and rolling it into a ball with a diameter of three-quarters of an inch. Shape the fondant into a cone that stands about one and one-half inches tall. This will be the base of your rose. Make another ball of fondant, this one three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Press into a pancake shape with a bottom one-quarter inch thick. Thin the fondant toward the
