How to Make Tootsie-Roses

For the petals:
Starting with the smaller of your teardrops, wrap each petal around your flower base and continue until you are satisfied with the size.

For the leaves:
Take a green tootsie and also pull into a teardrop. But instead of using the petal, use the pointed end pinched over to make a leaf.

Once flower is formed, adjust peddles to desired position and then quickly run entire flower under cold water or plunge into a bowl of cold water to set it.

Once completed, remove from chopstick and cut the bottom of the rose off and place on cake/cupcake, or whatever you’d like to decorate!

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Thanks Grieg for sharing this cool technique!

Of course, you can make a lot more than roses with these tootsie rolls..  They are moldable for all kinds of decorate cake toppings.  (If you remember, I used these as a ‘skull’ for my dragon on the dragon cake, then covered it with fondant.)

Hope you enjoy this, and be sure to send pictures if you try this technique!

Then today I ran across this on my instructable on making the dragon cake:

Here’s mommy_in_a_meditative_midlife_crisis‘s version of the Dragon Cake, which she made for her son’s 6th birthday last year!  “I just got finished making the cake for my son’s 6th birthday party today. Thanks so much for your easy to follow directions! It made the whole process quite enjoyable! Since I couldn’t get. A hold of Easter candy in September I just made fondant covered cake balls for the eggs and used fondant for the spikes.”

How to make a Dragon Cake