Origami Rose Ball with Tutorial

Made with lots of pieces, 62 in total ! More of Judith's origami can be found here

To make the Rose Ball start with these size papers

Electra Modules 5cm sq x 30 units

Kawasaki Roses - 10cm sq x 12 units 

Traditional Lilies (leaves) - 6cm sq x 20 units

Starting with the Electra

Diagram Elactra - AC , a photo by Roger N.origami on Flickr.

Diagrams for Rose and Lilies 

Roses  

                                           origami rose - binzinger, a photo by evi binzinger on Flickr.

http://xinjingrushui.com/node/2521          

http://www.bloom4ever.com/kawasaki-rose-budding.php

Lilies -  

http://en.origami-club.com/flowers/iris/index.html

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-lily.html

Mini Christmas Pudding Chocolate Cakes

Today is school's Christmas Fete....... so last night I made some "Christmas Puddings"

Here's how I made them .......

First, I made a chocolate cake mix

150g caster sugar
150g butter
3 eggs
120g self raising flour
30g cocoa powder
vanilla essence - proper stuff
chocolate essence - only found in waitrose

Butter Icing
some butter, icing sugar & vanilla essence - I don't really measure

I have this lovely 8 mini dome / semi sphere silicone bakeware (Tefal) which is great for making round cakes (used it to make mini angry birds)  - I can't find it anymore bought it a few years ago however found something similar on  internet

once cooled I cut the dome so they were level, scooped out a little bit and added the butter icing ....

I joined them together using "cake pop" mix I made using the off cut cake & butter icing

I then covered them in chocolate flavoured fondant .... very tricky

I did "cheat" and had to add some fondant on the bottom and blend the joins

To make the "sauce"  I used a round cookie cutter and hand shaped with a sharp knife

added some sparkle the "sauce"

Now making the Holly Berries & Leaves

I bought some special Beau Flowerpaste which happened to be "holly green". I use a holly leaf cutter but you could easily just cut the shape with a template & knife.

The holy berries was just some red fondant icing which I added some "Christmas Red" colouring to do make them more red.   I added them to the leaves and used a leftover apple packaging from Sainsburys to shape the leaves in to the dome shape..... (I made these first and left them to dry while I made the cakes)

Once I'd made the cakes I added the holly to the top using a bit of icing & water mix .....

To make them nice for the fete, I placed them on 4" silver bases and bagged & tagged

I buy most of the my baking supplies from Craft Company
The clear bags are from LakeLand 50 for £2.99
The cute labels are from PaperGlitter

Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree


Here's a Christmas card I made for everyone and I just emailed them the link to flickr so that they could see as want to help the environment and send a digital card.