A beautiful lotus flower to display on holidays and decorate your home more brightly that you made yourself would be wonderful, right? With just some familiar Oishi candies and a few basic tools, you can create a stunning lotus flower! Let’s dive into the Cooking Tips section of TasteVN and show off your skills right away!
1 Ingredients and Tools
Ingredients: 3 packs of red Oishi candy, 1 pack of yellow Oishi candy, 1 pack of green Oishi candy
Tools needed: Double-sided tape, clear tape, scissors, candle glue (or a glue gun), plastic bowl, plastic plate, candles,…
2 Steps to Follow
Shaping the candy into lotus petals
Method 1: Using double-sided tape
First, stick double-sided tape to the back of the candy and then peel off the backing paper.
Then, fold the two edges of the candy so that the two outer serrated edges of the candy wrapper are parallel, with the “Oshi candy” label clearly visible on the front, forming a beautiful isosceles triangle.
Similarly, continue to perform these steps until you finish all the candies you have prepared.
Method 2: Using candle glue
To use candle glue, first light a candle and place it securely in a bowl. Then, flip the back of the oshi candy over, and hold the candle glue over the flame for about 3 seconds to let it melt.
Next, dip the melted candle glue onto the two edges of the candy wrapper.
Finally, fold those two edges together so that the two edges of the candy wrapper are parallel, forming a beautiful isosceles triangle, with the word oshi clearly visible on the front of the wrapper, completing one lotus petal.
Similarly, you can do this until you have used up all the candies prepared.
Making the stamens of the lotus flower
First, melt the candle wax using a candle, then dip the wax onto 3 symmetrical points at the edge of the plastic bowl.
Then, stick the upside-down plastic bowl onto the prepared plastic plate. Hold the plastic bowl tightly for 3 seconds to secure it firmly onto the plate.
After the plastic bowl is securely attached to the plastic plate, use the melted candle wax to dab a circle in the center of the bottom of the bowl.
Then take 4 pieces of yellow candy shaped like petals and stick them onto the bottom of the bowl where you have applied the wax, ensuring that the triangular part of the candy is facing upward as shown below.
Next, use double-sided tape to stick around those 4 candies and then arrange more yellow candy shaped like petals in a circular pattern.
Then, use clear tape to secure that circle.
Continue to apply double-sided tape and add 2 more circles of yellow oshi candy, then secure them with clear tape.
For the final circle of stamens, use red oshi candy to create a circle and also secure it with clear tape for added aesthetics.
Making the lotus petals
Use double-sided tape to stick around the stamens you just made, then attach each red oshi candy so that the red candies are staggered relative to the yellow candies of the stamens.
Then, secure it with clear tape and another layer of double-sided tape.
Do the same until all the red oshi candy has been shaped into lotus petals, and stop when there is just enough space for a row of green candy next.
- Each time you finish a circle of candy, use clear tape to secure the flower shape.
- To make the layers of petals stick together more beautifully, you should add another layer of double-sided tape.
- To look more aesthetically pleasing, you should stick the layers of red oshi candy in a staggered manner.
Making a base for the lotus flower
You also use double-sided tape to stick around the petals, then arrange the green oshi candies shaped like lotus petals alternately with the red oshi candies to complete.
3 Finished product
The lotus flower made from oshi candies will have a very beautiful shape once completed. The red, green, and yellow colors are meticulously connected, harmoniously combined to create the appearance of a beautiful lotus flower.
This oshi candy lotus flower promises to make your ancestral altar even more vibrant during this Tet holiday, helping you attract fortune to your home!
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Hope that with the how to make a lotus flower using oishi candy that TasteVN just shared, you can successfully create a beautiful, unique lotus flower to bring fortune home this Tet! Wishing you much luck.
