Have been getting some interesting enquiries since doing Kirstie's Home Made Home. Someone wanting to gild walnuts (lovely idea) and also rose leaves.
Here's a great tip I learnt from my very creative grandmother who has a beautiful rose garden. She decorates her cakes with chocolate rose leaves. She dips leaves in chocolate and then carefully peels the leaves away. She taught me how to do it when I was a child and I loved it. If you use edible gold and press the gold gently into the chocolate it looks wonderful. You can use gelatine on a brush as a glue for the gold, or if you're very nimble fingered you can press the gold into the chocolate when it's still soft.
