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This Friday Flashback is celebrating the Kansas Sesquicentennial tomorrow!
Celebrate with candy sunflowers!
Use melted yellow candy coating for the petals and melted chocolate chips for the centers. Print out the sunflowers and then cover the sunflower template with wax paper. The sunflower template was just a "guide" to keep me from getting too far off track.
Here is the sunflower template I used.
Fill ziploc bags with the melted candy, snip of a tiny corner of the bag and pipe the melted candy onto the wax paper using the guide underneath.
Once the candy is completely cool and hard you have a sunflower cupcake topper!
You might also be interested in this fun sunflower cake made from Twinkies or these sunflower cupcakes!
Happy 150th Birthday Kansas!
In honor of Kansas celebrating 150 years of statehood this Saturday, January 29th, I made fondant sunflowers to top mini cupcakes. It really is super simple!
Mix egg yellow food coloring gel paste with a small bit of fondant. This amount made about 30 flowers.
Knead between fingers until is evenly worked in.
Roll fondant out into a thin sheet about 1/8" thick or less. A small silicone covered child sized rolling pin worked great! I used a tiny amount of powdered sugar or cornstarch to prevent sticking to the table.
Use a small daisy cookie cuter or a special daisy fondant cutting tool to cut the fondant. Place the cutter on the fondant. Press the base (not the plunger) of the cutter firmly into the fondant. With the cutter touching the table slightly slide the cutter and fondant together back and forth across the table to make sure you have a sharp cut and the fondant is not sticking to the table. Now, while still firmly pressing the base of the cutter into the fondant, push the plunger firmly into the fondant, this makes the center of the flower raised. Lift up the entire cutter and use the plunger to remove the flower.
Take piping gel and make a dot on the center of each flower.
Place the flower face down into brown sanding sugar to make the centers. Pick up and brush away any extra granules and push stray granules to the center.
Happy Kansas Day!
This is what we are working on for Bella's Valentine's Day classroom cards!
We are sharing our beary special Valentine download if you would like to make some!
Printable bear lollipop covers download
Print on white card-stock with no scaling and cut along dotted lines.
Fill out the to and from section on each Valentine.
Lightly score where fold should be with a dull knife run along a straight edge. This gives a neater fold.
Place sucker inside (we folded the bottom wrapper of the lollipop up) and punch a hole on each side. A rectangle punch worked perfect, a regular round punch would also do.
Tie a piece of ribbon through the holes and give the bear a nice bow tie.
I couldn't help but have more than 10 links this week because Mique's Valentine is so cute!
Here's ours from last year
