Hold Your Breath:

Now You Can Gasp. But Get Over It. No Time to Stand in Awe. Hurry up and soon you'll be having others sucking in their breaths. You Can Pretty Up Your Cake with Flowers Like Those Above—with the Help of This Equipment:

Have No Fear, You Won't be Left in the Lurch. We'll Show You How This Kit is Used. With a Bit of Skill and Some Other Tools, You'll be Able Make the Entire Flower, Down to its Felty Center.

To start, flatten the paste with a dough sheeter.

Place the cookie-cutting sheet on your work surface, sharp side up, and dust the sheet with powdered sugar to help you later remove the paste without resistance.

Drape the sheet of paste on a rolling pin and lay the paste (without pressing down) on the cookie-cutting sheet.

So far, the sheet of paste is intact. Before you break it up into flowers, you need to keep it from sticking. Here's where the non-stick sheet of silicone enters the picture. Lay it out (shiny surface down) on the sheet of paste you've laid on the cookie-cutting sheet. 

Now you can press. Gentle pressure does the trick.

Now that you have your flowers (minus their center), peel off the silicone sheet, stand the cookie-cutting sheet on its end and remove the remaining paste.

Time to give the flowers their curvature. For that you have two plastic trays, one with dome-shaped dents, the other with flattened cavities. That latter tray is for crafting wider flowers:

Before you use that tray, prime it with powdered sugar (just as you did with the cookie-cutting sheet).

Each of the cavities serves as a stand and a mold to let you shape the flower and give it your personal signature.

An airbrush and food color serve to give the flowers added accents.

The dome-shape-cavity tray is suited for taller flowers:

Altogether this kit includes the cookie-cutting sheet (measuring 16" x 24"), the two different flower-forming trays (each of them 16" x 23-3/4") and the silicone mat (15-3/8" x 23-1/4").

Oops, we haven't helped you out with the flower's center. It seems that's beyond the range of this kit. But consider the tools you'll find in our marzipan sets, the 9-piece one and the 15-piece one.