Easy Royal Icing Daisy Flowers

Do you need edible daisy flowers to decorate a cake, cupcake, or cookies? Let me show you how to make Royal Icing Daisy flowers.

HOW TO MAKE ROYAL ICING DAISY FLOWERS

Today I’ll show you how to make daisy flowers with royal icing in three simple steps:

1. Make flower centers.
2. Pipe flower petals.
3. Attach the flower center to the petals.

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TO MAKE ROYAL ICING DAISY FLOWERS YOU NEED

• Small Batch Royal Icing
• Get all the supplies in my Amazon Shop
• Parchment or Wax Paper Squares
• Flower Nail
• Petal Piping Tip #101
• Food Gel Color: Lemon Yellow
• White, Yellow Sanding Sugar, or Yellow Nonpareils
• Tweezers
• Scribe Tool
• Templates (sign up for Haniela’s Cookie Club on Patreon and have access to exclusive and ad-free tutorials, templates, sneaks peeks, recipes, and more.)
• Shop Templates (digital download)

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MAKE YELLOW FLOWER CENTERS

Let’s start with yellow flower centers. I created these as royal icing transfers.

Color royal icing with yellow gel food coloring (steps 1-3). Then, if the icing is stiff thin it down with water to piping consistency.

TIP: What is piping consistency? When you pull the icing up with a spatula peak will bend immediately and slowly fall, but doesn’t become blended with the rest of the icing.

Spoon yellow icing into a tipless piping bag and cut the tip off with sharp scissors (steps 1-2).

TIP: Don’t have a tipless piping bag? Use a piping bag fitted with a round piping tip #3.

DAISY FLOWER CENTER PIPING TEMPLATE

The size of the flower center you need to make royal icing daisy flowers depends on the size of the petals. Larger the petals larger the center you need. My flower centers are little less than 2/8 inch (5mm) in diameter.

Put your template onto a flat surface, such as a tray, cardboard, or baking sheet. Place a piece of wax paper over the template. I like to work with a small piece of wax paper at a time. Pipe rounds of yellow royal icing onto the wax paper. Then immediately dust yellow icing with white or yellow sanding sugar, or use yellow nonpareils. Carefully pick up the wax paper and allow sugar to fall into a bowl or jar. Return a piece of wax paper with piped flower centers onto a flat surface and allow to dry overnight (steps 1-5)

The next step is to remove dry royal icing flower centers from the wax paper. Dry icing should come off easily, using your fingers to peel the wax paper from the dry icing.

TIP: Flower centers can be prepared ahead of time. Store dry royal icing decorations in an airtight container, away from moisture and direct sunlight.

I used the same technique to make flower centers for Gingham Flower Cookies, but instead of sanding sugar, I used rainbow nonpareils sprinkles.

TO PIPE DAISY FLOWER PETALS YOU NEED

• Petal Piping Tip #101
• Piping Bag
• Flower Nail
• Parchment or wax paper
• Daisy Icing Template

FIT PIPING BAG WITH A PETAL TIP

To pipe daisy flowers I used Petal Tip #101. Cut the tip off the piping bag, and drop a petal tip into a piping bag. Fill a piping bag with stiff royal icing (steps 1-5).

PIPE DAISY FLOWER PETALS

I used a simple daisy icing template. I printed the template onto card stock and then I laminated it with clear tape and I cut it out with scissors. To make sure my petals were even I drew another circle inside with a marker and I used the drawn circle as my guide when I piped petals.

Pipe a dot of icing onto flower nails and secure the daisy icing template onto the flower nail (steps 1-4). Now secure a parchment square or wax paper on top of the template (steps 4-8).

TIP: Alternatively use double-sided tape instead of icing.

• Hold the piping bag nearly perpendicular to the flower nail.
• The wide part of the piping tip should be facing out and the narrow part is facing the center of the flower nail.
• Nearly touch the parchment with the piping tip, squeeze the piping bag so icing comes come out.
• Then move the piping tip towards the center and slowly release the pressure (steps 1-2).
• Turn the flower nail and repeat (steps 3-8).
• Follow the daisy template lines for an even look at daisy flower petals.

ATTACH YELLOW FLOWER CENTERS

TIP: If you are in a rush and don’t have time to make flower centers, just pipe piping consistency yellow icing into the middle of piped white petals instead.

With your fingers or with dainty flower centers it’s easier to use tweezers (steps 1-2). Place dry flower center into the middle of white petals. Gently push it down with your finger or a scribe tool. Carefully remove the parchment/wax paper square from the flower nail and place the flowers onto a flat tray. Allow drying overnight (steps 3-5).

It’s important that you let flowers dry on a flat surface or the underside of dry flowers is going to be uneven.

Next day or in 7-8 hours carefully peel off the baking paper (wax/parchment paper squares) from the dry royal icing flowers.

HOW TO STORE SUGAR ROYAL ICING FLOWERS

Store royal icing flowers and decorations in an airtight container, away from direct sunlight and moisture. Learn more about Royal Icing Transfers.

HOW TO USE ROYAL ICING FLOWERS

Sugar flowers can be used to decorate cookies, cupcakes, cakes, and other desserts.

Here I used daisy flowers to embellish Marbled Easter Egg Cookies.

BUTTERCREAM FLOWERS

In addition to royal icing, you can also use buttercream to make buttercream daisy flowers. Instead of letting buttercream dry, you can freeze it. That’s how I made buttercream flowers for my Buttercream Fall Wreath Cake. You can use Swiss Buttercream, Italian Buttercream, American Buttercream, German Buttercream or Crusting Buttercream for cookie decorating.

MORE ROYAL ICING FLOWERS

• Royal Icing Succulents
• Pansy Flowers
• Ruffled Royal Icing Flowers (via Lila Loa)
• How to Pipe Royal Icing Roses
• Royal Icing Butterflies

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