These flowers are relatively easy to make, yet are very pretty on baked goods.  I have made a couple of variations of these, but I made the ones that I am sharing today for Jaime and my summer party.

These flowers were inspired by Southern Living’s gumdrop flowers. I wasn’t able to find any gum drops at the grocery stores that we frequent–and thought the taste of spice drops, which the stores did have  would be too strong–so I used fruit slice candy.

To make the flowers, I used the following:

• Fruit slice candy
• Sugar
• Rolling pin
• Parchment paper
• Small flower and leaf cookie cutters
• A small amount of buttercream frosting

First, I sprinkled some sugar on a piece of parchment paper.

I placed a piece of candy on top of the sugar and paper.  I sprinkled more sugar on top of the candy and folded the paper to that the sugar and candy were sandwiched inside the parchment paper.

I used the rolling pin to begin to flatten the candy.  To keep the candy from sticking to the paper, I alternated flattening the candy with sprinkling both sides of the candy with sugar.

When the candy had reached its desired flatness I used a small cookie cutter to cut out a flower shape.

I tossed the resulting shape in a small bowl of sugar.  I repeated the process with different colored fruit candy slices and different cookie cutters to make the inside of the flower and leaves.  I placed the candy decorations in the fridge for a few minutes to harden.

When the candy had hardened a bit I used a spoon to place a very small amount of frosting on the back of the candy flower center to affix it to the candy flower.  I frosted a batch of sugar cookies from this recipe with buttercream frosting and slightly pressed the candy flowers and leaves into the frosting.

Enjoy!

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