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How to Make Edible Palm Trees for a Cake

May 5, 2014 by CJ [email protected] 5 Comments

Edible Palm Trees for a cake

Today I’m sharing a tutorial for how to make palm trees for a cake. With summer just around the corner, these will be perfect to use on all of those beach themed cakes!

For this tutorial, the palm trees aren’t hard to make, but you will want to make them 2-3 days ahead so that the leaves have time to dry!

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • Green fondant or gum paste
  • Lily or narrow leaf cutter
  • Flower form or curved surface for the leaves to dry
  • Sugar glue
  • Small paint brush
  • Covered wires (I use 22 gauge, 6″ long wires)
  • Coffee Straws
  • Pirouettes

Step 1: Roll out your green fondant and cut out at least six leaves. I used this Lily Cutter from the Wilton Gum Paste flowers set:

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree 01

Step 2: Place the leaves on a curved form to dry. I like to dust the form with corn starch or powdered sugar to prevent sticking.

Let them dry for at least 24 hours – you may need more time depending on the softness of your fondant and the humidity where you live.

Wrap up your leftover green fondant and save it – you’ll need it for more steps later!

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree 02

Step 3: Once the leaves are dry, you’ll need to cut out 6 more leaves. You’ll also need to bend a 6″ wire to fit the curve of the leaf, then use sugar glue to attach it.

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree 03

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree 04

Step 4: While it’s still wet, place another (fresh) leaf underneath the bottom – sandwiching the wire in between. Again, let the leaves dry for at least 24 hours. You can align the bottom and top perfectly, or have them offset a little so you’ll have some variation. You can see some of mine offset in the final picture.

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree 06

Step 5: Push a coffee straw into the soft center of a pirouette, then insert all of the wires of the leaves. Arrange them to make a balanced tree!

Pirouettes

Step 7: Push the tree into a cake and you’re done!

How to Make an Edible Palm Tree

If the pirouette is off balance, you can push a bamboo skewer into the bottom of it, then push that into the cake to have more leverage and help it stand up!

Happy Caking!!

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  1. Laura

    September 21, 2014 at 12:09 AM

    Thank you so much for this tutorial! I made this for my daughter’s cake this weekend it looks great. I tried another method and failed miserably, but this one turned out great. Thanks again!

    Reply
    • Rose

      September 22, 2014 at 6:25 AM

      So glad to hear it! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Tom Adsett

    May 22, 2014 at 1:42 PM

    The steps to make the palm trees for a cake are seem easy to understand and follow and the palm tree you created looks really appealing. I think this is a fun project to do.

    Reply
  3. Heather

    May 6, 2014 at 10:46 PM

    What a brilliant idea using the Pirouette cookies for a stable tree base. I would have never thought of that!

    Reply
  4. Cindy Robertson

    May 6, 2014 at 3:23 PM

    I ‘know’ you meant edible, but I had to chuckle when I saw the post stated “Editable” Palm Trees… and I’m thinking, you mean they can be re-written!!! I want to be that editor!

    Reply

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