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Cake Decorating: Sugar flowers and pipings
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Sugar flowers and pipings

Vintage and elegant wedding cake

Vintage and elegant wedding cake

Learn It

This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
Handcrafted Sugar Flowers »

Instructions

If you would like to learn how to create the filler flowers and hydrangeas, just buy the handcrafted sugar flower tutorial by Jacqueline Butler.

Difficulty:

Category: Cake Decorating

Type of item: Food

For: Other

Style: Romantic, Retro / Vintage


Materials

Sugar flowers: flower paste, wires, dusting colours, edible glue, 5 petal blossom cutter, hydrangeas cutter, scissors, royal icing. Cakes: top tier is a 6" round cake and bottom one is an 8" round cake. Royal icing, template for the dots, pink ribbon, lace ribbon, dowels, sugarpaste, smoothers, 11" round drum.

What are you most proud of?

The flowers as it was my first ever flower bouquet in that style.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

First draw a sketch of your cake.
Plan your days accordingly.
Give the flowers plenty of time to dry and always make more than you need in case they brake.

 

15 comments

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from egg to art on craftsy.com
Nov 27, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
So beautiful and delicate! Love it!
HoneynSacrameno on craftsy.com
Oct 10, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Beautiful!
jibrahim on craftsy.com
Aug 23, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
So stunning! The colors are lovely! May I ask you how you achieved that pretty cream color on the rose and the fondant?
Marcella V. on craftsy.com
Aug 16, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
This is exquisite, WOW! absolutely breathless! I love this style! Great job!!!
sking1769767 on craftsy.com
Jun 29, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Beautiful!
Peppercorns2012 on craftsy.com
Jun 29, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Awesome work
kalyanigr770095 on craftsy.com
Jun 17, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Simple and Lovely!
kalyanigr770095 on craftsy.com
Jun 17, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Simple and Lovely!
SugarArtBySusan on craftsy.com
Jun 10, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Fabulous!
Belle Rose on craftsy.com
Jun 03, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
The roses are so life like, really well done!
LittleDoveSwts on craftsy.com
May 30, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Beautiful!!!
Kath0607 on craftsy.com
May 28, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Very pretty, elegant and simple
Jamin Cakes on craftsy.com
May 26, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
I have already paid for the flower and choc cake classes and they are not in my libary.....I have you e-mails confirming them
Blair Madole on craftsy.com
Jun 15, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
When you are on the home page, do the classes show up when you click "Enrolled Classes" on the left under "My Activity"?
sharon connell on craftsy.com
May 20, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
how lovely!!