How To Make Wired Wafer Paper Hydrangeas


To make wired wafer paper hydrangeas, you’ll need a center and four petals.

These are pretty easy to make, and you can make the individual pieces ahead of time then use them as you need to make flowers.


How to make wired wafer paper hydrangeas

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wired wafer paper hydrangea
Wired wafer paper hydrangea.

Supplies needed to make wafer paper hydrangeas:

  • Wafer paper
  • Petal dusts
  • Edible glue
  • Floral wire
  • Floral tape
  • Paintbrushes

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Make the petals.

Gluing two strips of wafer paper together with wires in them.
Gluing two strips of wafer paper together with wires in them.

Start by adding edible glue to one strip of wafer paper, adding wires to it then sandwiching another strip on top.

Click here for an article about how to make gum glue.


Cut out the petals with wires in them.
Cut out the petals with wires in them.

Four wired wafer paper petals.
Four wired wafer paper petals.

Cut out the petals, you can do this ahead of time and make a bunch of them so that they have time to dry a little before dusting them.


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Color the petals and make the center.

Dust the petals with petal dust.
Dust the petals with petal dust.

Dust the petals with a variety of colors to give them some depth. Make the color darker toward the center where the wire sticks into the petal and make it lighter toward the edges.

Here’s an article about dusting gumpaste hydrangeas, click to see that.


Make a center.

Make a center by wrapping a piece of wafer paper around a hooked wire and pressing it into a tiny bud shape. Dust the center with color to match the petals.



Tape the flower together.

Tape the petals together around the center.
Tape the petals together around the center.

Tape the petals around the center.

Trim the petals if any of them are too big after the flower is put together and you can see what the petals look like compared to each other.


The finished flower.
The finished flower.

You can vein these petals or not, when they’re bunched together on a cake they’ll look good regardless of whether they have veins or not.


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