Fondant roses are pretty easy to get the knack of, you just need to give it a try and they look great on birthday or occasion cakes.
First of all you need to mix the colour into the fondant i use Wilton jells as liquid colour would make the icing to wet, the jells also have a more intense colour as well.
Make sure you wrap your icing up while your not using it as this dries out pretty fast and will go a touch crunchy which isn't good
You also need a file pocket to just cut the bottom and side off so you have a single piece of folding plastic to put the icing inside.
roll out a shape and cut the tapered end off so when you cut you get four even sizes of icing
Roll three into balls and one into a long shape that is twice the length of the ball put these on the pocket and close the top part of the pocket over the icing
Using your thumb first and then your finger smooth these shapes out one one side of the shape is to be thin one side and fatter the other side like a wedge shape.
roll up the long shape to make the centre of the rose
Start at the seem of the long shaped centre piece and place your first petal the second petal starts half way inside the first petal and the third petal half way inside the second roll the petals to close as you go round.
i then gave the whole flower a very gentle roll on the table to fix everything
Next you can star to pull the petals out
You can also shape the petals by rolling the very edges over or pinching slightly on parts to create indents as a normal petal would have
The flower will need to be cut across the bottom to get rid of the excess icing as this could be to chunky
Leave the flowers out to dry i tend to leave them over night
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