Roses made of Homemade Marzipan

I`m prepping for the 2 cakes I`m making this week. One is a birthday cake for my boyfriend, so I kinda want it to turn out decent.
I want it to at least turn out better than the half-assed cream cheese truffles i made him last year.
He doesn`t even like to eat cream cheese. Whoops.


So!!! Working with fondants and marzipan scare the shit out of most people, but really, it`s not so hard at all. I promise.


The recipe I use for homemade marzipan is simple:
☆combine even parts of
                 ★Almond powder
                 ★Powdered sugar
then just add water to get it to a play-doh consistency. A true marzipan should have egg whites in it,  to help it stiffen up, but let`s make this as simple as peach cobbler.


After its at desired consistency, add food colouring of choice. Then, shove it into the freezer for about 3 minutes, just to chill it. When this stuff warms up, it becomes hard to work with. While its in the freezer, cover the surface of a flat plate with plastic wrap.


After chilling the marzipan, take small globs of it and press them with your thumb onto the plate. These will become the petals.  I would say that each one was roughly 4cm long.
I`m hyped up on black coffee at the moment, and obviously did a pretty shitty job at getting them all the same size, but they sure worked fine.
       ☆ If the marzipan becomes warm and hard to work with, shove it in the freezer for a minute before working again.  

 I made two bowls of marzipan dough, pink and yellow.


Let me demonstrate the building of the flowers with the yellow dough!


Take one petal (I use the smallest one of the bunch) to make the center of the rose. Simply, curl the dough around itself. Squish the bottom part of the curl together to make a slightly cone-shape.

 Continue to curl the petals around the base you have made, keeping the very bottom of the flower slightly smaller than the top, and with each new layer spreading the top part of the petals out to give the appearance of a blossoming rose.

Getting there.....

Done! This one was a small one.

 The other yellow one was a medium size, and the pink one was a whopper.


And I was feeling nice and tacky, and put  dragée  on them.
Interesting thing i read about metallic  dragées:

            ☆The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers metallic dragées to be for decorative purposes only, and should not be consumed, and are actually BANNED in California.

　　　　　　　　MMMMMM artificial food coloring AND  banned metallic beads
I must really love my boyfriend to be making him a mercury-bomb of a cake like this!

See how easy it was to do? Get creative with the marzipan! Make marzipan tacos or marzipan cats to top off the cupcakes you plan on giving to your lover or friends!




Will post the steps for when its time to make the cake!