Michelle Darmody: Baking with Sugar paste flowers

WHAT better way to celebrate the onset of spring than with flowers. At this time of year daffodils are peeping through the earth and splashing gardens and roadsides with yellow, and bluebells are beginning to carpet woodlands with their beautiful hue.
You can add some of this colour and delicacy to your baking with sugar flowers. They take time to make but can be very effective. As weddings become more commonplace in spring and early summer these flowers can be used to decorate cakes for friends and family.