Preserve Icing Rose off Daughters 18th Cake

magpie

Can anyone help. I would like to preserve the icing roses from my daughters 18th birthday cake.
Is this possible? If so, how would I do it?
Many thanks, for any advice

squeaky

I'm not sure if you can do it with any great success at home, though VERY gentle oven drying may work. Otherwise, this google search page shows up companies that will preserve them for you:-

google preserve icing

CaptainSensible

Providing they are the hard type of icing, they will keep well in a cool, dark, dry place. I would also recommend that you pack in paper and store in a cardboard box.

I have several from special cakes wrapped in kitchen paper inside old gift boxes at the back of my cupboard. They are still fine after 10 years.

CS.

Marsie

Flowers from my sister's wedding cake have been inside a plasticy tube in a glass display cabinet for almost twenty years now, and are absolutely fine. No loss of colour or deterioration, and they were very beautifully and delicately made.

M.

Hegarts

I still have an icing decoration used for my youngest child's christening cake. It's a sleeping baby, so it's a fairly "solid" piece of icing, no frilly or fancy edges to get knocked off. I have mine in a tupperware box stored at the back of a cupboard and it's still fine 5 years on. I haven't done anything special to it. I looked at it only the other day and it brought back some lovely memories.

kessik

I still have the icing baby from my daughter's christening cake too. It's just in the bottom of a gift bag with all of the cards and gift labels. She's 16 now and it's lasted all this time wrapped in a bit of kitchen roll. It's become very hard but not discoloured at all.

kessik