Cake Flower Tutorials

I needed to make some lamb’s ear and dusty miller leaves for a client recently. This is a nice to use for filler greenery because it’s unusual and it has a pretty soft green color. Both of those types of leaves are silvery and fuzzy, so I thought I’d put some type of ground-up royal icing […]

Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To make Gumpaste lavender. Step by Step Tutorial for making sugarpaste lavender. Lavender is a good small filler flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste

I saw someone post about how to store gumpaste flowers recently, and it’s a good question. How you store your sugar flowers can be the deciding factor about whether they’re usable or not when you do remove them from storage. Protecting gumpaste from moisture. We tell people that you can save gumpaste for years as

I did a cake that had vines of gumpaste flowers on the bottom two tiers. They were combinations of orchids and freesia-type flowers on a stem. To get this effect I used to dummies to make the vines. I put a skewer in the center and attached a wire to the skewer so that I could

Just a hint…When you’re coloring gumpaste, make sure that you’re not dusting or spraying only one color. Flowers have more than one tone to them, and using different shades will look better than one flat color. Here we have some green hydrangeas…They’re okay, but add a little pink to them and they get a little

Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: Tips For Making A Gumpaste Gardenia. Tutorial for making sugarpaste gardenias. Gardenias are a good focal flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste

Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To make a Gumpaste David Austin Rose. Step by Step Tutorial for making sugarpaste rose. Roses are a good focal flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste

Wafer Paper Flowers Tutorial: How To make an unwired wafer paper flower. Step by Step Tutorial for making unwired wafer paper flowers. These are a good focal flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step wafer paper

Wiring wafer paper petals can let you make flowers for cake decorating that need petals that separate or move around. Using piping gel gives you a smooth finish, but the wires aren’t as secure. Using wafer paper glue gives you a strong bond but the glue can wrinkle the paper. You can make a thinner petal edge by only wiring the center section. Attaching the wire to the base of the petal gives you the most clean petal look, with no center wire visible. Use a different method depending on what look you need.

Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: What do peony petals really look like? Step by Step Tutorial for shaping peony petals to make them look more realistic. Peonies are a good flower on wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste