Create wonderful sugar flowers easily using these specially designed foam pads to make beautiful shaped petals and foliage with soft natural curves and additional veining detail.
The pads can be used in conjunction with a variety of decorative mediums including flower paste sugar paste almond paste and modelling chocolate.
- To soften and shape the edges of petals and leaves: Place the cut out shape onto the foam pad and using either a Bone or a Ball Modelling tool, position half the paste and half on the pad, gently slide the modelling tool around the edges.
This will thin the edges and also add gentle shape and movement.
- Cupping: This basic technique is extremely popular, especially when making traditional roses and blossoms, etc.
Place the ball tool onto the cut out shape and rotate the modelling tool to create a cupped shape.
- Veining: The flower/leaf modelling tool will create both sharp and soft veining lines, simply by drawing the back of the tool along the paste.
This popular and traditional technique of creating a Mexican hat is made even easier when used in conjunction with the Mexican Foam Pad.
- Mould a piece of paste into a smooth ball shape and then into a cone.Use your fingertips to pinch out the fat part of the cone.Extend the paste out further using the plain end of the Bulbous Cone Tool, to create a simple Mexican hat shape.
- Using your chosen cutter e.g.Primrose, Daisy, Five Petal, Calyx and Fuchsia, etc., place the cutter over the cone to cut out the basic shape.
- Place the cone into the appropriate sized hole in the Mexican Hat Foam Pad and soften, cup and vein the petals as required.
The foam pads are washable and non-stick, although a small quantity of cornflour or icing sugar can be used for dusting if required.