Sugarcraft Flowers: The Art of Creating Beautiful Floral Embellishments

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Amy’s designs capture the beauty of the natural world pefectly, recognizing the true beauty of delicate foliage and the natural quality it adds to sugar flowers.

We hope you enjoy browsing through our selection of handmade flowers. The easiest way to add some colour is by using the edible dusting powders which also come in silvers and golds. Pour a little of the dust onto some kitchen paper and using a medium soft brush take up a small amount of the dust. As you can always add more colour but not take it away we usually now brush a few strokes across the kitchen paper to only leave a tiny amount on the brush - this avoids brushing streaks of colour across the flowers. Keep adding the colour until content with the result. We also now have a selection of lustre sprays in pearl gold blue and green. With Naomi's foundation techniques, you'll learn how to shape flower paste and use the right colors for a realistic finish. Plus, you'll master the five most popular flowers for cake decorating: peonies, roses, tulips, lilies, and dahlias. From beginners to keen sugarcrafters, there are 25 step-by-step projects for everyone that will help expand your skills.Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate these incredibly realistic and vibrant Red Cymbidium Orchids.

Please do not throw any incorrect items as we may ask you to return it to us – we will, of course, cover the cost of your postage in these circumstances. Traditional English roses are given a beautiful cottage garden feel with the addition of soft green foliage in a very pretty wedding cake design by Nice Icing, UK.Fabulous colouring and shading gives an incredibly real touch to the beautiful sugar floristy and foliage below by Shaile’s Edible Art.

A very simple sugar flower – no wires, just five small petals – gumpaste pansies are wonderful to have on hand for decorating your home baking. Learn how to make these little wonders in our gumpaste pansy tutorial here. Swedish designer, Lina Veber Cake makes beautiful use of sugar foliage in her chic cake designs including her fresh, white magnolia cake below. Gumpaste cosmos flowers make a pretty focal flower in themselves but can also lend a fabulous garden style feel to a mixed arrangement of sugar flowers, especially when blended with the more classic sugar flowers such as roses, peonies and hydrangea. If you are looking to make an arrangement similar to this one, you will want to give yourself two to three days to allow for drying time and colouring.

Sugar Flowers & Sugar Rose Sprays

Sugar foliage is often overlooked when creating beautiful floral cake designs but this is set to change with foliage taking centre stage in the lavish new botanical sugar flower cake designs of top cake designers. a selection of picture gumpaste leaf tutorials from Lovely Tutorials, including how to arrange leaves on a stem If you are looking to make an arrangement similar to this one, you will want to give yourself two days to allow for drying time overnight.

Depending on your cake design, choose from individually wired flowers that can be added to a spray, or whole sprays of flowers that include leaves and we also have a great range of piped roses and wafer daisies that can be simply popped straight onto a cupcake! Discover the art of sugarcraft and create stunning edible flowers with the help of Naomi, a respected teacher with over 30 years of experience. Her sugarcraft book and tutorial are full of inspirational and educational content that will guide you through the essential edibles and equipment needed to get started with sugar flowers. Learn through step by step tuition how to recreate the incredibly realistic and eye-catching Lilac Wonder Tulip. These flowers are simple, elegant and brighten any room up if simply placed into a vase. The tulip is so adaptable in any arrangement, use the flower heads as a tightly arranged table centre piece or create a modern and sculptural contemporary display buy twisting and bending the stems to show off their elegance.Glorious, trailing vines make a fabulous design motif in this outstanding garden style wedding cake below by Lori Hutchinson of The Caketress. (See our ad panel below for the Craftsy class by Lori Hutchinson in which Lori teaches how to paint trailing vines on fondant). Stemmed hydrangea are one of the most versatile sugar flowers you can learn to make and make an excellent filler flower in gumpaste flower arrangements. Very popular at the moment are the diamantes gems and pearls which come in a variety of colours. These can be added into any flower spray to give it a modern twist. Find these under wedding decorations. Gumpaste foliage is a specialty of Shaile’s Edible Art including the beautifully coloured selection below left. On the right, white sugar flowers are lifted with an array of beautiful foliage (image by Millie Holloman Photography. For our customers in Northern Ireland with a ‘BT’ postcode, please note that any deliveries will most likely take three days to arrive, on 2 Day Northern Ireland Delivery.