Brooches for Flower Centers

Use some little brooch molds to make some cute fantasy flowers for a cake.  

Tools Used:

Favorite brooch mold - We used Ruth Rickey's Brooch Mold 4

Flower formers

Ball Tool

Palette Knife

Coloring - We used Americolor Turquoise and Albert Uster Gold

Paint Brushes

Flower Cutters - We used FMM Rose cutters size 35 mm and 50 mm

Create all the brooches first. 

Make a small ball of fondant and make sure it is smooth then using your thumb, firmly press it it into the mold.  Using your palette knife trim off any excess then flexing the mold pop out your brooch flower center.  If the fondant soft it may distort -- if I'm worried this will happen I place the mold in the freezer for 3-5 minutes and then remove. 

 And your pretty brooch is ready to paint!

Use a little lemon extract or everclear mixed with your coloring to paint the brooch. 

Making the flowers:

Cut out your selected flower shapes. Then use the ball tool to thin the edges. 

Then layer the fondant flower cut outs on top of the flower former.  Place the brooch in the middle to make sure it fits.

Now assemble these beautiful brooch flowers on your cake.  

Brooch mold used:

Ruth Rickey Brooch 4

"Let Them Eat Cake"- The Jabot Mold Sequel

All I can say about this next blog post is WOW!  Joanne Wieneke outdid herself with the amazing combination of molds, creativity and some awesome talent.

I know that you have been waiting for the sequel of the Jabot Mold tutorial. This is it...

I have gathered a number of very beautiful and versatile molds to join the Jabot Mold Collection from DTC and incorporated them to a cake design, inspired by a quote  "Let Them Eat Cake", the phrase commonly misattributed to the lady named Marie Antoinette....

(photos from Wikipedia)

If you scroll back, reading archives of DTC Blogs, a lot of molds have already been presented and how to use it.  I used all necessary Tips and Techniques mentioned in DTC Tutorial blogs:
Lace Press Mold Tutorial by Morsels by Mark
New Applique Lace Molds by Sherrie Ortiz
Bridal Motif Lace by Renea Feagin
The Jabot Mold by Joanne Wieneke
Tuscan Jewelry Bowl by Joanne Wieneke

This should be easy, all you need are: fondant or gumpaste, shortening,  gumglue, royal icing , palette knife or  plastic clay knife, toothpicks, rolling pins, small scissors, paint brush, some gold and pearl dust  and a lot of patience and a ton of time....

Here are the list of molds that I have used for this cake:

 Brooch 2C FiligreeLeaf

 (pipe dots of royal icing over  the filigree leaf)

Floral1 Rose Daisy

Floral Heart with Rose Center

Floral2 Square Floral

Floral2 Rose Swag Pair

Brooch 2C Square oval

(fold left and right gem wing and stretch to a sausage by rolling the middle gem between your fingers to create the arm)

Jabot Molds

Jabot #1

Jabot #2

 Brooch1C Filigree

Scroll - Single Fancy - Right & Left

           Brooch 2C Square oval
(cut wings of the mold and randomly position them to make a gem buns on hair)

Stack up your cakes, in this case, I used styrofoam for visual purposes.

Thank you very much Glenda and DTC for giving me the opportunity to work with your beautiful and fantastic products!

 I hope you all enjoyed this inspirational cake as much as I enjoyed creating them...

Happy Cake Decorating!

 Joanne Wieneke

The Little Cake Patch

Products Used:

Brooch 2C FiligreeLeaf

Floral1 Rose Daisy

Floral Heart with Rose Center
Floral2 Square Floral
Floral2 Rose Swag Pair
Brooch 2C Square oval
Jabot #1
Jabot #2
Brooch1C Filigree
Scroll - Single Fancy - Right & Left
Lace 4 - Flora Swag

Timeless Classic Look

Check out the project that Katherine Dungan created using a brooch mold.

I chose this mold to work with as I had an upcoming birthday of some one who wanted a classic style cake.

It gave a very nice broach about 1 1/2" long. I wanted one that looked like a pearl set in gold. To accomplish this I put just enough white fondant/gumpaste mix to fill the center cavity. The next step was to brush it with a little glue. Taking a yellow fondant/gumpaste mix is finished filling the mold. I used the yellow so that when I painted it with gold dust, if I missed any spots, it would not be as obvious as it would if it were white.

The cake was a white 10" hex cake. The reason for the hex cake was to allow the broach to stand out. The topper was fresh flowers and I added small pleated drapes on the corners. I love how the mold turned out but wish I had used different flowers.

I think the broach added the timeless classic look I wanted.

Thank you so much for letting me part of the DTC product testing group.

Sincerely,
Katherine Dungan

Products Used:

Brooch - Diamond Pearl Center