This week, I was asked by a friend to make emergency sunflowers for their wedding cake. These bright sunflowers are really easy to make and super effective on your bakes!

You will need:

• Large Sunflower (Gerber/Daisy) plunger cutter
• Flower centre mould
• Small rolling pin
• Cornflour
• Yellow and dark brown food colour
• Tin foil

• If you have a large flower former, you can skip this part but I will be making my own from tin foil! To do this, fold a small rectangle of foil in half.
• Then, fold round the edges to make around shape (it doesn’t need to be accurate, just big enough for your sunflower)
• Push the base of the circle down to create a small tin foil bowl, this will create the shape of the sunflower.
• Lightly dust your tin foil bowl with cornflour to prevent the sunflower sticking.

• Colour flower paste your desired colours. I’m using Sugarflair melon for the sunflower and Sugarflair dark brown for the centre.

• Next, roll out your yellow flower paste very thinly on a cornflour dusted surface. Cut out two flowers and ‘plunge’ the design onto your sunflower.
• Lightly paint the centre of one sunflower with edible glue and stick on the second, overlapping the petals.
• Gently lift your two sunflowers and place into your dusted tin foil bowl, creating a ‘curled up’ shape on the edges.

• For the centre, lightly dust a ball of brown flower paste and push gently into the mould. Then push it out.
• Lightly pain the centre of your sunflower with edible glue and stick down the centre, making sure not to distort the design.
• Leave to dry overnight.

Happy baking (and decorating!)

Britt xo