Our gumpaste moth orchid tutorial this week is by multi-award winning UK cake designer, Cassie Brown from her recent book, The Kew Book of Sugar Flowers. Endorsed by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Cassie’s book encompasses over 40 tutorials featuring hyper-realistic details that serve both a beginner looking to learn from a master crafts […]
Quickest Ever Gumpaste David Austin Rose Tutorial
This gumpaste David Austin rose tutorial uses a super fast method for creating those usually time consuming layers of intricate inner petals. It’s so fast you’ll be churning out gardens full of them in no time! The completed flower measures 4 inches/10cm so it’s quite a substantial flower head and makes a stunning feature flower […]
Quick & Easy Large Gumpaste Rose Tutorial with Textured/Torn Petals
This large gumpaste rose tutorial is for a wired rose but don’t worry, there is just one central wire – the petals do not have to be wired individually, which saves a tonne of time. Plus it features a rather unconventional method of creating textured/torn petals which gives a beautiful, straight-from-nature appearance. It calls for […]
Gumpaste English Rose Tutorial by Naomi Yamamoto
Naomi Yamamoto sugar flowers are some of the most admired in the world and this week we have her exquisite gumpaste English rose tutorial to share with you from her book, Sugar Flowers: The Signature Collection. (For the classic David Austin rose, see Cake Geek’s Quickest Ever David Austin Rose Tutorial here, featured below.) Extracted […]
Easy Gumpaste Lavender Tutorial
This gumpaste lavender tutorial shows you how to make this simple but very pretty adornment for your cakes and bakes. It can add a wonderful botanical feel to a sugar flower arrangement and is also very handy to have when fresh lavender is out of season to add as a finishing touch to your baking […]