Hibiscus centers
I've been studying Hibiscus and I think it will be easy enough to do the petals with a tear-drop cutter and then frill the edges. But I'm wondering how to do the middles. It's a very unique stamen, and it's really what makes the hibiscus stand out.
Any thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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I'd start with a thick wire, wrap it with (pre-tinted) gumpaste just to get the thickness needed. Mold the gumpaste thicker at the end to create the section where the pollen starts. Here's where I think you'll have to play around with it.
Shape the very end to a flat ball like section (like a tulip) and apply gum glue to the entire thick section and dip in cornmeal to create pollen look. Then insert premade stamens, cut short, to create the spiky things on the ends.
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Permalink Reply by Diana Viera on
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Eileen ~ I just added a video on making a hibiscus. It's one that I think might be helpful to you.
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Permalink Reply by jeri c on
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I will have to watch it... I love hibiscus. I made centers for the cala lilys and colored my gumpaste a light yellow then made the hook in the end of the wire and dipped into gumglue and ran it up through the center of the tube and made sure it was closed at the base where the wire goes into the paste. Let them sit up and dry then rolled them in a yellow sanding sugar... if I do them again... I will use cornmeal instead.. I did not like the glitz of the sanding sugar... was not very realistic. I have them on a cake I did in my wedding cake section.
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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on
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I was actually thinking little yellow round sprinkles would work really well to roll the hibiscus stems in, but I don't know where you can buy JUST yellow round sprinkles - and there's no WAY I'm going to sit and separate out a bottle of sprinkles. :)
I think what I'm going to do is take 5 floral wires and wrap them together to make the thick stem, but leave the 5 tops out then put a thin layer of green gumpaste on the stem, roll those in whatever I decide to use, and put red gumpaste balls on top of the 5 exposed wires (like the real flowers in the photo). - Attachments:
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O.K. - so the whole wrapped floral wire thing didn't work. What I ended up doing was taking the pre-made white stamens that look kind of "fluffy"(?) and dipped them in water and then rolled them in yellow sugar. Two dips into both and they came out pretty good! My hibiscus are not my favorites right now (up way too late last night making them), but they aren't hideous and should be fine. I'll post pictures of the cake when it's done.
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