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Gumpaste Anenome Tutorial

Anemone flowers come in lots of different colours – white, pink, purples and lavender, reds and more – and while it’s a popular garden flower, many varieties are native to woodland areas, which makes it a great addition to woodland themed wedding cakes and party cakes. Materials Black gumpaste18-guage wire (white or green)24-guage white wire30-guage wire (white or green) or anything from 26-guage upwardsNeedle-nosed pliersEdible gluePowdered gelatin or semolinaBlack petal dustCake ... Read More...

A Compendium of Sugar Flower Tutorials

Sugar flowers add a sensational finishing touch to wedding cakes and special occasion cakes so we’ve compiled a selection of sugar flower tutorials to help you on your way to sugar flower mastery. First up is our gumpaste rose tutorial featured above. It's part of our Quick & Easy Sugar Flowers collection and features a speedier method for creating large gumpaste roses. It also demonstrates a unique way of creating textured/torn petals that give a really natural look to your roses ... Read More...

Gumpaste Pansy Tutorial – Quick & Easy Sugar Flowers

This gumpaste pansy tutorial only takes minutes and the flowers make the most exquisite floral finishing touch to lots of cakes and bakes, from layer cakes to loaf tin cakes to tray bakes. While fresh pansies are an edible flower, it’s always handy to have a box of these gumpaste pansies to hand for when you can’t get fresh pansies or they’re out of season. In any case, I find the fresh pansies are quite large for small cakes whereas the size created in this gumpaste pansy tutorial suits almost ... Read More...

Easy Gumpaste Peony Tutorial – Closed Peony

Our gumpaste peony tutorial is quick and easy with no wired petals (just one central support wire), no drying trays and no tissue paper stuck petals! So if you've been meaning to get started learning how to make sugar flowers, then you've run out of excuses because we've come up with a fail-safe gumpaste peony tutorial for you to try. The secret to our method is in creating perfectly cupped scalloped petal tips and attaching the petals whilst still pliable so the flower can be easily molded ... Read More...