HOW TO DECORATE POPPY CUPCAKES

These pictures so the different stages in creating the poppy cupcakes. I iced the cupcakes white.

I then used the ready made icing to create the basic shapes of the poppies.
I made the green leaves from ready made icing. I let the white icing dry and then I moistened the ready made icing and placed the flower petals and leaves on the cupcakes.
I then used writing icing to put in the details of the centre of the flowers. I needed to follow the pictures to get the details and ideas for this. The photographs below show the different stages in decorating a cupcake.

REMEMBRANCE DAY CUPCAKES

Remembrance day in the United Kingdom is celebrated on the Eleventh of November. The main symbol used is a poppy. This is used because the poppy grew on the battlefields of France and Europe in the world Wars. On this day we remember all those who have died to give us our freedom. These cupcakes are to remember this day.

DECORATING POPPY CUPCAKES

How to decorate Poppy Cupcakes
First of all I collected lots of pictures of the flowers from the internet and books and stuck these in my scrapbook. I then decided how I could make the edible flowers. I knew that I needed red icing, black icing for the centres and I also wanted to make the flowers look natural. I looked at the type of Poppy that is sold for the British Legion


These rather abstract flowers gave me the idea of the flower and the cross. The cross represents the war graves that I have seen in the Netherlands.
With these I tried to make a natural poppy by shaping the ready made red icing into natural flowers with frilly edges. I used ready made green icing for the leaves. I used writing icing in the centre to decorate the cupcakes. The pictures helped me with the ideas.