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Gumpaste Cosmos Tutorial

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...

Baroque Wedding Cake Decorating Tutorial by Rosalind Miller

We are delighted to feature this week a baroque wedding cake decorating tutorial from the bestselling book, Wedding Cakes by Rosalind Miller. Rosalind's wedding cake are noted for their elegant and sophisticated design, with her background in fine art shining through each and every one. With the publication of her book, Rosalind imparts the fine-tuned techniques of her art, explained in precise detail. It includes ten of her unique wedding cake designs, including her masterpiece "Enchanted ... Read More...

Quick & Easy Gumpaste Ranuncula Tutorial

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...

Stamped Cake Tutorial by Erin Gardner

As readers of Cake Geek will know, we're huge fans of Erin Gardner and The Wild Orchid Baking Company so we were super excited when a copy of Erin's book, Great Cake Decorating arrived on our desk. Our biggest problem was trying to choose which of the 30 cakes to share with you - there were lots of new techniques and brilliant tips but we eventually settled on Erin's hand-stamped floral "Craft Cake" above. Stamped cake designs and illustrated sugar plaques are two techniques we haven't tried ... Read More...