Winter Sugar Flowers & Foliage - Cake Geek Magazine

Gumpaste poinsettia, hellebores, snowdrops, berries and foliage – there’s no shortage of winter sugar flower ideas for the wedding cake decorator or Christmas bride.

Also known as the Christmas rose, the hellebore is a top choice for a floral winter wedding cake that encapsulates the beauty of a winter garden. Emily Harmston Cakes have designed the beautiful, botanical inspired wedding cake above dressed in hellebores, winter jasmine and berried ivy for a stylish winter garden wedding cake.

Learn how to makes beautiful hellebores in our easy gumpaste christmas rose tutorial here.

You’ll also find a gumpaste jasmine flower tutorial here from Ozzie Cake Decorating as well as a jasmine leaf tutorial here from clay art blog, Thai Flower Art.

German cake designer, Martina Bliedung of Floralilie showcases the sublime beauty of tiny snowdrop flowers in her exquisite wedding cake design below, absolutely perfect for a late winter/early spring wedding.

Wired teardrop crystals create a magical dewdrop effect amongst bunches of winter snowdrops in the pretty winter wedding cake desing below by Kathy Moore for Culpitt where you’ll find the tutorial for this cake design plus a gumpaste snowdrop tutorial.

More sugarcrafted snowdrops feature in the spring woodland wedding cake design (below right, image via Pinterest), with a fabulous woodland style wedding cake by Jonathan Caleb Cake (left).

Amy Swann draws inspiration from the first winter frost in her incredible nature-inspired wedding cake design below, featuring stems, branches and foliage sugarcrafted to perfection.

Gumpaste catkins make an inspired choice to adorn a winter wedding cake with Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet’s gumpaste creations below demonstrating the paired-down elegance of this early Spring budding beauty.

Grey-green sprigs of eucalyptus add movement and interest to the stylish wedding cake design (below left) featuring magnificent white blooms intermingled with contemporary succulents in a design by Arianna Lauren Cakes.

A classic winter wedding cake design of Erica O’Brien Cakes captures the rustic beauty of the festive season in a stylish grey-green palette of winter foliage and white snowberries, below right.

Sprigs of festive mistletoe, snowy pine and winter foliage are crafted into an elegant winter wreath and becomes the centrepiece of this understated christmas wedding cake design by Miso Bakes, below left (image by Sylvia G Photography). On the right, the Sugar Penguin Cakery adds just a touch of festive red to their winter white and mixed foliage wedding cake design to wonderful effect.

Another winter gem is mistletoe and you’ll find our gumpaste mistletoe tutorial here, featured below.

Sculpted chocolate flowers created from solid chocolate (as opposed to modelling chocolate) are one of the many talents of Erin Gardner of the Erin Bakes blog. Giant white chocolate blooms paired with peeling silver leaf over chocolate create a beautiful silvered winter look in this chocoholics dream wedding cake below. (#ad: Learn more on creating solid chocolate flowers in Erin’s online class here – Chocolate Flowers with Erin Gardner).

Frozen flora take centre stage in another of Erin Gardner’s winter wedding cake designs below with frosted sugar flowers creating a magical winter landscape in soft, muted pastels (image by Mark Davidson Photography).

The Caketress inspires once again with silver, glittered stamens creating alluring winter blooms nestled amongst frosted snow-laden branches from one of her classes at The Bonnie Gordon School of Confectionery.

Glittered silver centres and frosted twigs bring snowy glamour to more of The Caketress’s winter sugar flowers below left, while on the right, Cotton & Crumbs create an elegant winter palette with black centred anemones, winter white roses and silver grey foliage.

More beautiful wintered blooms from The Caketress below with sparkling sugar cookies in midnight blue casting a spell of glitter and sugar.

A silver and white fantasy poinsettia sparkles below left from Nicholas Lodge’s latest online class for Craftsy (see ad panel at the end of this feature) and on the right, a jewelled poinsettia by Erin Gardner brings a touch of glamour to an elegant winter wedding cake.

A stylized red sugar flower with gold jewelled centre makes a statement winter cake accent by Couture Cakes by Rose, below.

A lavish display of sugar floristry in seasonal red and white reaches the pinnacle of sugar flower art below with rosehip berries and briar roses created to an amazing level of botanical accuracy by La Lavande Sugar Florist.

You’ll find our gumpaste holly tutorial here which covers the classic dark green holly leaves but also a variegated holly variety with a lighter green two-tone leaf.

Rambling roses in ruby red star in this vintage style christmas wedding cake with trailing ivy creating the most romantic garden look – a masterpiece of sugar flower art by Amy Swann Cakes.

Twisted branches add a fabulous botanical frame to this seasonal display of red and white roses, berries and greenery in a rustic chic arrangment by Shaile’s Edible Art, while on the right, Shaile’s winter white blooms and snow white berries create a chic and alluring winter wedding display.

Learn how to make seasonal berries and branches in our gumpaste ilex berries and twigs tutorial here.

Red poinsettia are the first to come to mind for Christmas but don’t forget poinsettia come in beautiful white varieties too – a festive and voluminous bloom to adorn a chic winter wedding cake. Learn how to create these fabulous gumpaste poinsettia below in Torte di Nadia’s picture tutorial here: gumpaste poinsettia tutorial.

You’ll also find another great gumpaste poinsettia tutorial here from Tortova.

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