[HAPPY MUSIC]
The ribbon rose is a wonderful introduction
to fondant flowers.
It's timeless, and you can adjust the size of your roses
to fit your project whether you're making a cake, cupcakes,
or cookies.
OK, to start our rose, I'm going to grab some yellow fondant
here.
You want to make sure it's kneaded first.
And I'm just going to dust the surface with some cornstarch.
I have the pink guide rings on my roller,
because we want to roll this out pretty thin to about
1/16 of an inch thickness.
And I'm going to end up making a strip that's
about 2 inches by 5 inches.
I've got my ruler.
You could use either a paring knife or a pizza cutter
to do this.
And from here I'm going to take the top corners
and fold them down to the bottom,
and we're just going to lightly press these two together.
You don't want to do a really tight crease here.
So now I'm going to take the top right corner
and bring it down to the bottom.
It's going to form like a triangle.
And then I'm going to take the bottom corner,
and I'm going to start rolling it in.
This is going to end up being the center of our rose.
And you want to try to wrap this fairly tight.
And you want to try to keep the top flat.
You don't want it to spiral down too much,
and then we can come back and kind
of make it look a little more open.
And then when you get near the end,
you're actually going to bring the excess
towards the base of your flower and pinch it together.
And I'm going to use a paring knife to cut off the excess
so we have a flat bottom.
And there we have our ribbon rose.
Now that we have our flower, we're ready to do a leaf.
I'm just going to dust my surface,
and I'm just going to knead the fondant quick.
And I'm going to roll this out with the pink guide rings.
And then I'm going to use my ruler again
to measure out 4 inches by 1 and 1/2 inches.
I'm just going to take the top two m
and I'm going to fold them towards the center.
And we're going to bring this to a point.
So it's going to look, sort of, like an arrowhead.
And then from there I'm going to take one end
and just start to roll it into the center.
And we're going to repeat with the other side.
And then you can pinch it at the bottom and remove the excess.
I'm just going to clean it up a bit with my knife,
and there you have a leave.
So I have a variety of sizes of roses here.
It's easy to adjust the size just
by cutting a smaller or larger strip depending on what the end
project is going to be.
I'm going to show you how you can
add your roses to your treat.
I'm going to take the larger one and add it to a cupcake
and then add a leave.
This is just buttercream, so it'll stick.
And for a different look on this one,
we'll place different sizes.
And then for our cookie, I have a fondant covered cookie.
To attach the roses to the cookie,
we're going to add a little piping
gel to the bottom of the rose.
And we'll end it with a little leave.
And there you have a few variations
of how you can play around with the different sizes.
I just want to show you one more thing.
I want to show you how you can adjust the size of your ribbon
rose.
When you do a really small one, you
might want to actually take off your guide rings.
Because for something this small,
you might need to roll your fondant
just a little bit thinner.
If you find that the larger ribbon roses are looking
a bit heavy, you might even want to take off
the guide rings for those too.
So here I already have my fondant rolled out.
It's about 1 by 3 inches.
I'm going to start by just folding the top down,
and you don't want to press too hard on the crease.
Once it's folded in half, I'm going to take the top corner
and bring it down to meet the bottom so it forms
a little bit of a triangle.
And then from there, I'm going to take the very bottom corner
and we're going to start rolling it in.
And this is going to be the center of the rose.
You want to try to keep the top of it flat
and try to roll it fairly tight.
And then to finish it off, you can pinch the bottom.
And there you have a much smaller ribbon rose.
So now with such a tiny ribbon rose,
we're not going to want to use the same type of leaf
that we would use for the larger ribbon rose.
We're going to use the leaf from the ejector set.
So all we need to do is press down,
and a leaf this size is going to compliment your tiny rose.
Here we have a cake and some cupcakes where you can
see we've used different sizes.
On the cake, we have some really small roses
used more as an accent.
And this is just a nice fun, festive look on the cupcakes.
You can easily adjust the size of your roses
depending on your project.
[HAPPY MUSIC]