This gumpaste fluffy peony tutorial shows you how to make a "wow" flower to adorn a wedding cake or special occasion cake. It's over 6 inches wide so it's a true statement flower but you can adjust this downwards if you wish. To make the 6-inch flower we used a 2-inch rose petal cutter for the inner petals and then 2 1/2 inch and 3 inch petal cutters (or round cutters) for the outer petals. You can size down down the flower by using a smaller cutter for the inner petals, as long at the outer ... Read More...

Our gumpaste cherry blossom tutorial this week is the beautiful double flowering cherry. Cherry blossoms also come in single blossom varieties (which you'll also learn to create) but the double blossom has an extra layer of fluffy pink prettiness which we couldn't resist. Cherry blossoms come in a variety of colors - candy pink, shell pink, cream and white. We've chosen the shell pink variety for this tutorial. The cherry tree is unusual in that the flowers appear before the leaves in ... Read More...