How To: Create sugar carnations from sugarpaste for cake decorating

Now you can have your flowers and eat them too! While we don't advocate you chomp down on the next bouquet your boyfriend gives you, there is a way to consume your favorite flowers if they're made out of sugar.

Check out this cake decorating video to learn how to make sugarpaste carnations that are so delicate and lifelike that you'll swear they're real...until you gobble them up in your mouth, that is.

Top cake decorator Elaine MacGregor shows the viewer how to make lifelike edible floral decorations using simple sugarpaste techniques. This video shows how to make lifelike edible carnations.