Learn how to make your own sugar flowers to use as cake decoration by following the techniques shown in this video. These techniques can be used on any type of cake from cupcakes to wedding cakes!
How to make sugar flowers for cake decorations
Video Transcript
I’m going to demonstrate how to make sugar flowers to decorate cakes. You need to buy from any good standard sugarcraft shop, sugar florist paste.
What you need to use to start with is a bud on a wire. For roses we use cake wires. So you cut them, make a small hook in one end, that just secures the bud. So you do that with them all, and then you make enough icing (about the size of a pea), just mold it into a ball and feed the wire through from the flat end down to the hook.
You have two sets of cutters, that’s a single rose petal and that’s a five petal rose. So, for each one of these buds initially you need two of these. You need a paintbrush and some clear alcohol again, ‘cause again this will evaporate. You don’t use a lot for each one, and you have it in the direction of the point. Just push it on so that it sticks, fold one side in, then the other side in, then put the join down onto another one and that picks that one up.
With even pressure, push down on all five petals and just move it a little bit. Make sure it’s cleanly cut all the way round.
This is what they call a dog bone tool- you need one of these to make the petals. I always use the wider end, it just gives a better finish on a rose petal than the narrow. Use a bit of clear alcohol, just a little bit in the middle and a bit up each petal. Take your bud a put it to the middle. You need to just slide it to your fingers then ‘cause it needs to come out the bottom. Straight through the middle and then you take two petals at once, one that way and overlap, and underlap so that wraps round. Then with the other threes petals- all three all the way round, and then overlap there.
The same rose back through the middle, through your fingers. Now these five all fold round evenly. So we turn it upside-down and overlap each petal onto the next one. That’s that. We just leave that to dry.
