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.
Yumm, those look great, and those little flowers are so cute! Thanks so much for sharing this at The Fun In Functional!
Hi Jessi, Thanks for hosting and for stopping by!
These are super beautiful! Colorful and cute – great job
Thanks so much for the toturial
Oh!! This is great!!! Yum….Candy flowers on a cookie!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
Christine, Thanks for hosting and for stopping by!
Very clever using the cut out, they look adorable! Thanks so much for sharing on our Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap ; )
Steph
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Thanks for hosting! I always enjoy seeing new cookie recipes.