Continuing our Quick & Easy Sugar Flower Tutorials Collection, this gumpaste cosmos tutorial incorporates "thread stamen" which is a great technique to learn and will stand to you for lots more sugar flowers, if you want to expand your repertoire beyond the more popular sugar flowers like roses, hydrangea & peonies. Gumpaste cosmos flowers also lend a more botanical look to your sugar flower arrangements when blended with the more traditional ... Read More...

Ranuncula are one the most beautiful flowers in nature and despite their intricate look are surprisingly easy to recreate in gumpaste.  For this sugar flower, you don’t need a special cutter. A single circle cutter (1.5 inch/4cm) makes all the petals for this gumpaste ranuncua. I’ve also cut out any veining because I find it a wasted effort – the veining tends to be lost in the process of shaping the petals and attaching them to the center.   Also, I’ve made this flower ... Read More...

One of the great things about the gumpaste magnolia is that it’s very quick and easy to make as you’ll see in this tutorial. And yet it is a spectacularly showy flower for cake decorating due to its size and the combination of its pristine white petals and its beautiful and detailed yellow/gold centre. There are other varieties of magnolia which are just as popular, especially the pink magnolia which has narrower petals. Materials 3 x 18-guage wires taped ... Read More...