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.