How to create caramel flowers with your own hands? How are they good? In the article we will give answers to these questions. Today everyone knows that sweet pastries are served at the end of a festive meal. Its decor can reveal new facets of your talents. Making out the confectionery, every woman turns into a designer: you can draw with flour, protein or fruit masses, cream, as well as melted chocolate. You will demonstrate your skills in creating small plastics, speaking the language of professionals - you will produce chocolate, marzipan, caramel figures and flowers.
Caramel Recipe
How to make caramel flowers? First you need to concoct the caramel itself . This is a raw material derived from sugar with the addition of aromatic, flavoring and coloring substances. So, to prepare caramel, pour sugar into the pan, pour hot water and stir until completely dissolved.
Rinse off the sugar that has stuck on the walls of the pan, then put it on the fire and cook, stirring occasionally. As soon as the syrup boils, remove the foam with a spoon. Rinse the spray of syrup from the edges of the pan again, cover it tightly and boil the caramel until the sample is caramelized.
The product will be ready when a ball is rolled out from a small amount of syrup chilled in cold water. If you cook less time - you get a fondant, from which you can roll the ball after cooling.
To make caramel, you need to have one glass of granulated sugar, ¾ glass of water, 10-12 drops of a solution of citric acid or 3-5 drops of vinegar essence, food color and flavor.
Leaves and flowers
So, we prepare flowers and leaves from caramel. Leaves can be created using a stamp. Cut it out of a potato so that it resembles a veined leaf. Fasten the stamp on the fork with the pattern down and dip in hot caramel. Next lay it on a plate oiled. The caramel will stick to the bowl and the vegetable stamp will separate. While the sheet has not cooled, you need to stretch or bend it on a rolling pin to give it the necessary shape.
To make flowers, follow these steps:
- Divide the oval in two.
- Roll one of the halves so that a tourniquet is obtained. It will be the middle of the rose.
- Around the tourniquet, wrap the other petals, gently pressing them.
- Attach the remaining petals, bending their upper edge slightly outwards.
Agree, caramel flowers are a great decoration! Over time, you will certainly come true professionalism.
Caramel with honey
Caramel flowers can be prepared in another way. It is known that it’s difficult to make such flowers with your hands, since you have to work with a very hot product, which can cause burns. Therefore, many wear gloves.
So, pour 0.5 kg of sugar into the pan and pour 250 g of water. Stir, cover and bring to a boil. Then add about one tablespoon of honey. If there is a lot of honey - you will get dark caramel, and if not enough - muddy. Therefore, here you need to feel the measure.
Remove the pan from the fire by smell, immediately after the sugar has dissolved. Then pour the product on marble stone, divide into portions and crush with a trowel or spatula, like dough. When the caramel thickens a little, begin to stretch it and crush it into a lump. Stretch until golden transparent caramel is pearlescent and white. If the product has frozen during this process, it can be reheated again.
Honey roses
This workshop “Caramel Flowers” will be useful to many. So, mash the resulting mass on the table into a pancake with a thickness of no more than a centimeter and begin to pinch off the petals of the future flower from small edges. Wrap the first petal around a rod. You can use iron wire with a diameter of up to 2 mm. After the base of the bud hardens, remove the stem. Otherwise, you can break the finished fragile rose.
Petals freeze instantly, so work fast. Straighten their edges immediately so that the rose is identical to the real one. When the bud is ready, attach a few green leaves to the base. You will spend only 10 minutes on one flower. From the remaining caramel, you can make a flower vase.
By the way, snow-white roses are obtained from refined, and cream-colored roses from granulated sugar. And if you want to get flowers of a different color, color the water with food colors as we indicated above.