Good Fortune Cherry Blossom Cupcake Tutorial

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Fondant Fortune Cookies:
Equipment:
Circle cutter
24 gauge white wire
A-ceto knife
wire cutters
Straight ruler
Materials:
Sugar water, edible glue
Edible marker
Fondant, color of choice
Fairy Pink lustre
Find supplies and cherry blossom extrac.

We find it works best to create the embellishments prior to baking the cupcakes or cake.
Knead your fondant, add your color of choice and knead until amalgamated, roll the fondant thin enough to fit in the pasta machine (if you do not a pasta machine roll the fondant by hand until the fondant is 1.59mm or 1/16-inch). Cut 24 circles, 12 at a time. Once your circles are ready cut a piece of 24 gauge wire the diameter of the circle, thread the wire through the centre of circle, with wire facing you fold the top half to the middle, glue the flap down loosely , and repeat the same process on the other flap.

For the personalized message inside the fondant fortune cookie:
Knead white gumpaste, we choose to color some, marbleize some, and some are pink. Roll the gumpaste, either place it in a pasta machine or roll fairly thin to mimic a piece of paper. Cut a long skinny rectangle, using an edible pen or edible marker write a special message, gingerly place the gumpaste message inside the fondant fortune cookie. You will want the end of the message to be inside, and the words to facing you reading left to right. (Okay stop laughing it is an easy mistake to make!)
Place movement, bend in fortune cookie the paste and allow to dry.

Cherry Blossoms:
Equipment:
Cherry blossom cutter, OP
Cherry Blossom veiner, CR
Celcup
Wire cutters
Stamens
Tweezers
Triangle spatula
Material:
Gumpaste white
Petal dust
Petal lustre
Sugar-Water
Cornstarch
Crisco
Vivia paper towel

Knead white gumpaste, Roll gumpaste to 3mm/ 1/8-thick; either place the gumpaste in a pasta machine or until to roll by hand until the gumpaste is see through and thin. Sprinkle your mat with a little cornstarch(it is important the gumpaste is mobile) using you OP cherry blossom cutter cut out various sizes of cherry blossoms, lift the blossom with a triangle spatula, place in the double sided veiner, close, and vein. If you cannot find or do not have a cherry blossom veiner use a textured celstick or cocktail stick and without frilling ad textured lines. Pinch the petals, place the blossom in celcup or use an egg crate with viva paper towel to add movement, and place a small whole in the centre. Allow to dry and petal dust.
Using a tooth pick to dab a tiny amount of sugar-water to the centre of the blossom and using your tweezers add one stamen at a time.

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