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...
Quick & Easy Gumpaste Parrot Tulip Tutorial
You will love our gumpaste parrot tulip tutorial this week! It's so quick and easy to create and creates a wonderfully showy wedding cake flower or for celebration cake, the two-tone variety look spectacular. It's definitely one of the most underrated wedding cake flowers, especially for spring brides. The center can be made in pale green or yellow and the brown stamen can be bought from sugarcraft stores to save time but if you can't find any in your local store, we show you how to make your ... Read More...
Gumpaste Cherry Blossom Tutorial
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...
Jacqueline Butler’s Heirloom Rose Tutorial
Our exquisite heirloom rose tutorial this week is by sugar flower superstar, Jacqueline Butler. Jacqueline's work is admired the world over by her legions of fans who will be delighted to know that she's now published a second book, Modern Sugar Flowers: Volume II. The book features instructions and beautiful photographs on how to create 17 different sugar flowers: bougainvillea, miniature daisy, dogwood, tulips (a simple tulip and a parrot tulip), gardenia, Japanese anemone, peony, Icelandic ... Read More...