Happy holidays everyone
i'm Valerie from the decorating room here at Wilton, nothing says the holidays
more than poinsettias
and today I'm going to show you how simple and easy they are to make using royal
icing
it's really a great addition for your cakes and cupcakes and even cookies this
holiday season so there's only a few things you need to make them I'm
going to show you what they are right here
so you'll need a lily nail set and this is the one and 5/8's of an inch
size you'll need four inch cut
oil pieces, disposable decorating bags
filled with medium strength royal icing the red is fitted with a number 352 tip
I use christmas red for this one
this is buttercup yellow and this is the number two tip
also medium strength so the first thing you want to do
is with your nail you're lily nail you're going to take a piece of the foil
and pack it in using the other end just about halfway
the poinsettias are more of a shallow flower so you don't want to push it all the
way in
then with the excess foil around you're going to push it in like this
and there you have it using
foil is an easy way to help
remove from the nail and dry it forms a little cup it helps to keep the shape
okay so here we have our red icing
with the number 352 tip and you want to hold it
at 45 degree angle at three o'clock from where you're looking if you're
left-handed it would be nine o'clock
and you can hold the bags so that the two pointed tips are vertical
you're going to start in the center, like so
and you're going to push applying pressure and pulling at the same time
and releasing the pressure and pulling away
right about when you get to the edge of the nail then you're going to rotate
about a third of the way and repeat the same process
almost forming a V, like so
and then you'll do it one more time
rotating again and it'll look like
a Y the three petals, so that's your first step
the next step is to repeat the same process going in between
each of the pedals here so you'll apply pressure
stop the pressure and pull back
move it a third repeat again
like so, and then one more time
there
and there you have your first layer of leaves doing it this way helps to
space out the leaves properly and
evenly so now we're going to do the next layer
of leaves in between there and so what you want to do
start from the center again you're going to hold the tip a little higher up
and you're going to repeat the same process except stopping pressure
right in the middle of when the two petals begin to separate
then you're going to pull back rotate a third
repeat the process, one more time here
and then for the next three
you're going to do the same thing in between each of those
and there you have it
okay so that's your petals for the poinsettia
and then the last part is using the yellow
that we have here and I like to hold at a 90 degree angle
staring from the center I like to put one little dot
right in the center and then smaller dots
in a circle around like so
and that's it that's how simple and easy it is to make the poinsettia
and now to remove it you just
undo the foil here
generally release it from the cup and you can kind of reform it, it almost
keeps it in a little cup like there and you can just set it aside to let it dry
it should take about 12 to 24 hours to dry completely
and then once they're dry you can
easily and gently
remove them from the foil like that and there you have your poinsettia
so for more information and for more tips and projects go to wilton.com