{CANDIED ROSE PETALS - Recipe for YOU}

Due to still dark weather and rain... I still cannot make my photos so here is a post with the recipe for the CANDIED ROSE PETALS below:

This is a page I did scan from the book: Christmas with Victoria 1997 and it is still available at Amazon, just click the hyperlink.

The text with this photo on page 137 reads: Petal Crown

To create a small masterpiece, garnish a cake with colorful flowers.

This photo with Candied Rose Petals is from Southern Living February 1998, page 122.

Another idea came from Atlanta Magazine, June 1997...

That's how I got my idea for garnishing the chocolate heart & rose shaped dessert with candied roses.

Took a photo (today, on a dark day...) from my candied roses, see below.

Presented on a Royal Albert Princess Anne handled bon-bon dish.

Now the recipe for you:

CANDIED ROSE PETALS

18 small rose petals (pesticide free from your own garden)

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

1½ teaspoons meringue powder

3 tablespoons water

½ cup superfine sugar

• Rinse rose petals, and let dry on paper towels.
• Beat powdered sugar, meringue powder, and 3 tablespoons water at low speed with an electric mixer until blended; beat at high speed 4 to 5 minutes until mixture is fluffy.
• Brush mixture on all sides of petals; sprinkle with superfine sugar. Let stand on wire racks 24 hours.

Yield: 18 petals

This is rather easy to make!

• If you don't have the meringue powder, try this recipe:

SUGARED ROSE PETALS:

3 large pesticide free roses

½ cup egg substitute, beaten lightly

½ cup superfine sugar

TO MAKE SUGARED ROSE PETALS:

1. Pull the petals free from 1 rose. Lightly coat each petal on both sides with the egg substitute, using a small paintbrush.

2. Sift a small amount of the sugar over the coated petals, turning them carefully to coat both sides. Set on waxed paper to dry at least 1 hour. Repeat the procedure with the remaining roses, egg substitute, and sugar.

Yield: 1½ cups.

Instead of ROSE PETALS you can also use edible flowers from your own garden such as; NASTURIUMS, SNAP DRAGONS, PANSIES, VIOLETS or DAYLILIES.

Good luck with your version...
Also interesting to try the STRAWBERRY & RED ROSE PETAL WHIPPED CREAM DESSERT; see link with recipe below.

Related link:
{INTRODUCING GUNNAR LLOYD; DAPHNA & RAYMOND'S LOVE-CHILD} | previous post by me with stawberry & red rose petal whipped cream dessert...
{Edible Flowers} | previous post by me about Edible flowers with recipes
{Lisa Boalt Richardson another Georgia Tea Aficionado!} | previous post by me with RECIPE for STRAWBERRY & RED ROSE PETAL WHIPPED CREAM DESSERT
{Violets from our Garden and on French Country Style Wooden Tableau} | previous post by me with candied violets
{FOND MEMORIES} | previous post by me showing candied violets