You have to love the requests that little kids make for their birthday cakes…I recently had a request from a customer whose young child asked for “a strawberry cake with strawberry icing and icing strawberries and an icing dandelion sitting on the top of it.”
I already had the “icing strawberries” in my shop, so she asked if I could make the icing dandelions to go with it.
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Since the strawberries were brightly colored and on the whimsical side, as opposed to being super realistic, I decided to use yellow fondant for the dandelions and green fondant for the leaves.
I didn’t need gumpaste since color, not realism, was the order of the day.
Make the dandelions.
Start by pressing some yellow fondant into a flower center mold, leaving an overhang like the brim of a hat.
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Thin out the overhang with your finger, it should be a little longer than the height of the center section.
![gumpaste dandelion](https://acaketorememberblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/gumpaste-dandelion-2.jpg)
Using a pair of small scissors, rough up the edges of the center.
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Cut lines into the overhang all the way around. If some chunks fall out that’s okay.
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Press the cut edges up around the center.
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And there you have your little dandelions. If you want to really thin out the edges you should use gumpaste, not fondant, since the fondant won’t want to cooperate.
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Make the dandelion leaves.
For the leaves, look at some photos of dandelion leaves online, but there are a few different shapes. Roll out some green fondant and cut wavy area in the edges in a leaf shape.
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Thin out the edges of the leaves by pinching them, then shape the pointy areas.
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Dry them on a piece of foam or in a flower former.
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