I have a couple more cake decorating questions if you could help me out . . .

[lucysmam]

Is there any way of making silver sugarpaste? Or can you buy it? Or is a grey-ish colour the best I can hope for? For some record decks for my BIL next month

&, do flower cutters come with instructions? As I've seen a beautiful wedding cake with some gorgeous flowers but fgured I could definately do with some more practise if I want something like them on our wedding cake so was going to order a set on Friday if they have instructions with them

Ta

Grey and then you can get silver which you paint on (see R2D2 on my profile)

Flower cutters do come with some instructions, but your best bet if it is an option would be a friendly local cake decorating shop who would show you.

What sort of flower cutters?

silver edible paint

thank-you stealth, much appreciated. I'll have a quick wander for my book & find out, they were very pretty though.

We don't have a shop near enough to get to, it'd take an hour and a half on 2 buses & the lo isn't too fond of bus rides for some reason at the mo

they were moth orchids, in pinky colours. Really very pretty but thought something like that would need a fair bit of practise to get looking just right

I am Your noah's ark is what I was aiming for!! & R2D2 is amazing. Rethink on the fair bit of practise, think I need LOADS of practise!!!!

Hmm - from what I can see, moth orchids look tricky. I have never tried anything that complicated. I would imagine the cutters would come with instructions but you could always get a book if they prove not to?

There are some instructions in my book, just not very clear. I may have a go at something smaller & a bit simpler if you think they look complicated, yu obviously have a lot more experience than me & know what you're doing. Thanks stealth

OOh, fab profile picture btw, very nice

You would have plenty of time to practice - flowerpaste flowers will keep indefinitely once dried. I have just never really done much with flowers - but IME most things just take patience and some fiddling rather than any particular skill.

Well patience is something I seem to have a lot of lately! & it kills footy training nights no worries . . . quite relaxing being in the kitchen doing my own thing for 3hrs instead of runninground after everyone else. I didn't realise flowers had to be made of flowerpaste though, will have a look at that now while I'm bored with the footy on

Definitely flowerpaste - otherwise you will never get them thin enough, and/or they will break.

I'll make a note of that in my book, or I'm likely to forget by the time Friday gets here & end up trying them out in sugarpaste & being devastated when they fall to bits