How to Make Simple Sugar Paste Flowers

Transcript When arranging sugar flowers on a cake, I like to have all of my sugar flowers right nearby. The other tool that I make sure I have is a pair of wire cutters in case I need to snip any of the wires before I put them into the cake. I usually like starting …

Transcript Hi, my name is Amy Noelle, and I’m the owner of Sugar Flower Cake Shop. Sugar Flower Cake Shop creates unique special occasion and wedding cakes. They are made from local and sustainable ingredients, and they feature realistic looking flowers that are all handmade from sugar. I founded my business on the principle that …

Transcript In order to finish off my leaves, I want to paint them in order to bring out a depth of color. I already colored my gum paste, when I was creating my petals. I had added a little bit of food coloring, green food coloring, into the gum paste and had mixed that around. …

Transcript Then I’m ready to attach my second one. I’ll put this down for just a second, and I’ve already ball tooled a second piece. I’ll just turn it upside down, same technique that I used. Pierce it through, slide it all the way up. Now when I add my second layer of petals, I …

Transcript After the center and the petals have all dried for 24 hours, it’s time to paint and assemble our magnolia flower. I’m just going to add a tiny bit of petal dust on the center. And I’m going to use three different colors. I like when the centers of magnolias fade from one color …

Transcript After my center has dried for 24 hours, I’m ready to add the petals. I first start by rolling out my gum paste and cutting it with a teardrop cutter. I’m going to add the petals individually. My first layer of petals has one petal that wraps all the way around. So I’ve cut …

Transcript In our process to make peonies, we’ve already made our center and I’ve covered it. We’re ready to add our petals in order to make a peony bud. The first thing I’ve done is rolled out my gum paste and cut it with a small five petal cutter. I want to make sure that …

Transcript Making sugar magnolias is easier than you think. It consists of making the center and then eight petals all the way around. Let me show you how to create the center. The center starts the four gram piece of gum paste that I’ve rolled into a ball. I’m going to insert a wire into …

Transcript At this point, I’ve created my center and my wired petals. I need to put them together before adding my second layer of petals. Let’s start with the center and I have my petals. In order to add my wired petals, I need to bend back the petals so that they open up. At …

Transcript After my center has dried overnight for 24 hours, I’m ready to add my petal. I’ve rolled out my gum paste and have cut it with a leaf shape cutter. This is a way in which I can multipurpose some of my tools. This is normally used for a leaf shape if I use …

Transcript So I’ve painted my throat and all five of my petals, and now it’s time to attach them all together to create my sugar Cymbidium orchid. To do so, I need start with my petal, and I need to bend the wire. So I don’t’ want to start at the top to bend it, …

Transcript After we’ve allowed our flour to dry overnight we’re ready to add the final two layers of petals. The important thing here is that we’ve switched sizes of cutters, so I had started with the small five-petal cutter, in order to create a flower of this size. Now in order to continue it, I’m …

Transcript Let’s learn how to make a peony. I’ll show you how to take a small piece of gum paste like this and turn it into a beautiful peony flower like this. A peony takes five days in order to create from start to finish, so let’s go through each one of those steps. I …

Transcript In order to finish off our sugar rose, we want to paint it and add a finishing touch, add our calyx. In order to paint it, I use petal dust, and I like to use a wide paint brush in order to apply our color all over. I dip my brush into the petal …

Transcript After the column has dried for 24 hours, it’s time to add the outer labelum to the center of my orchid. To do so, I’ve rolled out my gum paste and have cut it with an orchid center cutter. It’s a very specific cutter that has lots of little shapes on the edge of …

Transcript Now it’s time to create the petals for our Cymbidium orchid. I roll down my gum paste and I’ve cut it with a three petal cutter. If you don’t have a three petal cutter, you can always use the small circle cutter, but I have my three petal cutter, and I’m going to pinch …

Transcript Before I add my petals to my center, I want to add a little bit of paint on the throat of my orchid. I’m doing that, with just a little bit of food coloring. In this case, I’ve chose a little bit of burgundy food coloring. And I’m using a stiff bristled brush, not …

Transcript After I’ve created the center for my tulip, I’m ready to make the petals. I’ve rolled out gum paste and have cut it with a three petal cutter. I’m going to use these petals individually, so I need to separate each of the petals from the other ones and I’ll just use one at …

Transcript Once it’s dry it turns into something that’s super-hard. Now, I can start to build up the petals. So what I’ve done is roll out, using a pasta machine I’ve rolled out some gum paste in order to create my petals, and I’ve cut it with just a simple five-petal cutter. My five-petal cutter …

Transcript Tulips are one of the first flowers to bloom in spring and I want to show you how to create them in sugar. They’re made of a center and six petals that go all the way around. Let’s start with the center first. The center is made up of one round piece of gum …

Transcript There are lots of varieties of orchids. However, Cymbidium orchids are my favorite, and I’d like to show you how to create them in sugar. It starts with the center column. Let’s begin there. I begin with a one gram piece of gum paste that I’m going to knead up and roll into a …

Transcript After my center has dried for at least 24 hours, I’m ready to add my petals. I’ve rolled out my gum paste and I’ve cut them with a daisy cutter. It has eight petals, all the way around. Once I’ve cut out my shape, I go ahead and pinch each of the petals so …

Transcript After I’ve created a peony bud, I can take it and transform it into a full flower. I’m using the same procedure that I did in order to create my peony bud, however I’ve switched to a larger five-petal cutter. Our bud was made with a small five-petal cutter, now I’ve switched to a …

Transcript After all the petals have dripped dried, it’s time to paint them. Tulips come in so many different colors. I’m going to paint mine with a little bit of hot pink. But when I paint it, I want to leave it so that it looks like a variegated flower. So I’m not going to …

Transcript When I’m painting my cherry blossoms in order to make them realistic I use a few different colors of petal dust. What I want to do is to start with a buttercup, a nice light yellow dust. And I’m going to put a little bit onto my brush and fit my brush all the …

Transcript After all of our pieces have dried . . . we’ve made 6 petals, our style, and our stamens, we’re ready to attach, in order to make our Casablanca Lily. I start with one of my stamens, and I’m going to attach 6 pieces all the way around. When I attach them, I’ll attach …

Transcript After I’ve added all of the petals to my peony, I’m ready to paint it. I’m going to paint it with petal dust. Petal dust has the consistency of ground up chalk. I just dip a nice, flat paint brush into my petal dust and brush off the extra. I can always add more …

Transcript In order to finish off my calla lily, I want to give it a depth of color. When I crated my petal around the outside of the center, I had already colored my gum paste using a little bit of food coloring. Now I want to dust on some petal dust to give it …

Transcript Sugar leaves are great to put in between sugar flowers when you put them on a cake, and they’re very simple to make. I rolled out some gum paste and I’ve cut it with a leaf cutter. There are many different types of leaf cutters depending on the flower that you’re making. All of …

Transcript In order to create the petals for a magnolia flower, I need to different size cutters. I like to use circle cutters for this flower. I have one that’s an inch in diameter and another one that’s an inch and a quarter in diameter. I rolled out my gum paste, and I’ve cut a …

Transcript This is a beautiful spray of cherry blossoms. I want to show you how to create them in sugar. In order to create an individual little cherry blossom, I have a little center and it’s surrounded by the flower. The center is a piece that is not edible; it’s made from paper stamens. These, …

Transcript In order to create a Casablanca lily, I need to create six petals. I’ve rolled my gum paste through a pasta machine in order to get them a uniform thickness, and then have cut them using a lily cutter. I store them until I need them underneath a cell flap so that they don’t …

Transcript I’d like to show you how to make a rose out of sugar, starting with a teeny, tiny little bit of gum paste, and turning it into this beautiful finished flower. I start with a two gram piece of gum paste, and I need to build a center support. You notice on my rose …

Transcript I’d like to show you how to make a Casablanca Lily. A Casablanca Lily is made up of six petals and also a center. Right now we’re going to focus just on making the center, the style and the stamens. In order to make the style, you take a tiny one gram piece of …

Transcript Calla Lilies are a quick and easy sugar flower to make. They consist of a center and a single petal. Let me show you how to create the center. The center is made from a 2-gram piece of gum paste that I’ve measured out and have rolled into a sausage shape. I want to …

Transcript After I’ve created my rosebud, I can turn it into a full flower by adding layers of five petals each. I have two different size cutters. We’re going to start with a small five petal cutter to begin with. I’ve rolled out my gum paste using a pasta machine and then cut out the …

Transcript Now we’re ready to finish off our rose bud. Our first layer had one petal; our second layer had two petals. Now it’s time to add our third layer which has three petals. In the same manner as I did before, I’ve rolled my gum paste, using a pasta machine and then cut it …

Transcript After my blossoms have dried for twenty four hours I’m ready to assemble them. But first I want to create the center. I’ve taken a tiny piece of gum paste and just rolled it into a ball. In order to give it a little bit of extra sparkle I’m going to brush some edible …

Transcript A lot of times people ask me how to create a simple sugar flower. So let me show you how. I’ve created this blossom using three different sizes of the same exact shape and layered them with an ombre effect in three different colors of purple. In order to do that I’ve added food …

Transcript Daisies are really cute sugar flowers to make. They consist of the center and then lots of little petals. Let’s start with the center. The center is made up of a two gram piece of gum paste. I’m going to roll it into a ball. I want to make sure to insert a wire …

Transcript In order to create many of the petals, we need to roll our gum paste out and cut them with cookie cutter shapes. You see I have a variety of cookie cutters in front of me. Usually gum paste starts as white and then we add food coloring into it in order to create …

Transcript There is a lot of equipment that is needed by a sugar artist in order to create beautiful sugar flower. I’m going to first start talking about all of the different pieces of equipment that need to be used in order to create petals. And in just a moment, we’ll talk about the tools …

Transcript In order to paint and assemble all of my flowers there are additional pieces of equipment that I need to have on hand. You’ll notice that when I have my sugar flowers each of the flower petals are individually wired. So it’s super important that I have a pair of wire cutters on hand …