{"id":14827,"date":"2012-05-22T06:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2012-05-20T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:44:22","slug":"painting-the-roses-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14827","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Roses Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bloodyroses-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bloody Rose Cupcakes\" title=\"Bloody Rose Cupcakes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The fabulous JoAsakura pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/hannah-victoria.tumblr.com\/post\/9998883338\/cupcakes-inspired-by-alice-in-wonderland\">these<\/a> splendid &#8220;bloody rose&#8221; cupcakes inspired by the &#8220;painting the roses red&#8221; bit from <i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i>.  There&#8217;s another photo at the artist&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hannah-victoria.deviantart.com\/art\/Painting-the-Roses-Red-257541234\">deviantART<\/a> page, where she notes in a comment that the roses were made of buttercream piped with a #104 tip.<\/p>\n<p>Even though icing roses look complicated, they&#8217;re actually fairly straightforward to make.  Wilton (which also sells the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/store\/site\/product.cfm?sku=402-104\">tip<\/a>) has tutorials for two separate methods: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/technique\/Roses\">Roses<\/a>, made of individual petals, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/technique\/Ribbon-Roses\">Ribbon Roses<\/a>, which use one long ribbon of icing.  You can also find dozens of other tutorials with different techniques and different finished shapes by googling &#8220;how to make frosting roses:&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/candy.about.com\/od\/candybasics\/ss\/frosting_rose.htm\">This one<\/a> creates a fairly detailed rose and <a href=\"http:\/\/iambaker.net\/rose-cake-tutorial\">this one<\/a> results in a more impressionistic, freeform shape.<\/p>\n<p>The roses in most examples are a bit more upright than the ones in the photo, so to cover an entire cupcake you&#8217;d either need to make a lot more rows of petals and thus use a lot more icing (a cupcake with more icing?  The <em>horror<\/em>!) or ease the petals outward so they lie more flatly against the surface.  Most tutorials also suggest the use of a rose nail, but I expect you could make &#8217;em right on the cupcake instead.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;blood&#8221; appears to simply be red food coloring, although it might be red with a drop or two of black mixed in to darken it a touch.  (The scarlet baking cups are a nice detail, too.)<\/p>\n<p>These would be a lovely addition to a party table.  Instead of cupcakes you could also do a rose-covered cake, such as the one in the <a href=\"http:\/\/iambaker.net\/rose-cake-tutorial\">tutorial<\/a> mentioned above, or one like Wilton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/idea\/Row-of-Roses-Cake\">Row of Roses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, JoAsakura!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous JoAsakura pointed me to these splendid &#8220;bloody rose&#8221; cupcakes inspired by the &#8220;painting the roses red&#8221; bit from Alice in Wonderland. There&#8217;s another photo at the artist&#8217;s deviantART page, where she notes in a comment that the roses were made of buttercream piped with a #104 tip. Even though icing roses look complicated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14851,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/14851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}