A tiger lily in my garden. I once made a sugar one for the top of a cake, and you could hardly tell the difference between the real one and the sugar one. I have a yellow one too, which I will photograph when it starts flowering in a few months.
Wow beautiful! So you are a baker and a gardener also? I love that I get to enjoy spring during our Texas Fall! I actually have a hard time wrapping my mind around that.
@nana2r Not really a baker, but I do enjoy making sugar flowers to decorate special occasion cakes. I must look through my old archives and see if I can find some photos of the sugar flowers.
Here is a sugars flower story for you. On my grandmothers and grandfathers 50th wedding anniversary we brought the cake through hot West Texas weather in August. The flowers all melted off. Every daughter granddaughter daughter-in-law in the house tried to make them Over again for hours. My husband. young at the time about 30 walked in and said hey let me give it a try squirt squirt squirt done and beautiful unbelievable!
@nana2r Great story! Yes, humid weather is also a nightmare for sugar flower makers. When I lived in Durban (South Africa), it was hot & humid, and I used to dry my flowers under a lamp. Wouldn't have stood a chance of them drying without it.
November 24th, 2012
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