Easy peasy fondant ribbon roses - you don't need any special equipment for these, just fingers, fondant icing, a freezer bag and scissors
Slit open the freezer bag along the sides and cut off the zip lock if it has one, then open it out (keep any printing as your bottom layer)
Roll a golf ball size piece of fondant into a chipolata size sausage
Nip off 4 small olive size pieces of fondant, roll three into balls and the fourth into a small sausage and place them on one half of the freezer bag
Now fold over the freezer bag and with your thumb flatten three of the balls, keeping the top edge slightly fatter than the bottom edge - they don't have to be perfect or even exactly the same shape and size
then gently press the sausage shape into a flat oval disc
With a finger, roll up the oval disc into a spiral
Take one of the circles the place the top (thicker) edge over the seam of the spiral and roll it loosely around the spiral
Take another circle and place it half way over the first one, press lightly at the base
Place the third circle overlapping the second and again press lightly at the base
Now gently roll the base between your fingers to fix everything together, take your scissors and snip off just below the rose head
Gently place the rose on to some kitchen towel or baking parchment and leave to dry overnight
Et voila! pretty fondant roses to decorate your cupcakes, wedding cakes, anything you like
Watch me make them!!
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