Remember to wear gloves while shaping edible laces and flowers made of fondant. • If your fondant becomes hard, you can add about 1/8th teaspoon of water for every 24 ounces of fondant to soften it.

And more and more, we eat with our eyes." Wilhite grows edible flowers on his farm, which is a good place to look for flowers that are safe to eat if you want to work them into your cooking at home.

I sometimes use a silicone mat underneath the fondant while rolling out the fondant. -Make sure the kitchen temperature nice and cold, there should be no heat next to the edible flowers else they ...

Shane Gorringe, a pasty chef who has worked all over the world, shows how to make fondant flowers for cakes at his bakery, Zoe's Bakery, in Biloxi.

To show my mom how much I love her, I've caked up some Funfetti Vanilla cake, coloured some Italian meringue buttercream in pretty Mother's Day shades and created a vibrant marbled fondant pattern ...