This week’s cake decorating video tutorial demonstrates how to make a realistic looking gumpaste sunflower from fondant or gum paste. Sunflowers are beautiful and easy to make, making them perfect for decorating fondant cakes or cupcakes. To create a cake, use edible flowers as a garnish. The cupcakes are created using three different piping tips: the 366 leaf piping tip, the 24 (or Wilton 16) tiny star tip, and the 3 piping tip.
To create the desired shade of orangey red, use a mixture of yellow and red edible dust. Add a touch of brown at the base for depth. The colors used are Sugarflair Primrose, Crystal, and Sugarflair Primrose.
To make a realistic looking gumpaste sunflower, lightly dust each flower former with corn starch and place the bottom flower into the former. Create a staggered arrangement of petals. Use something to insert buds and leaves into as you work, such as a cake dummy, polystyrene, or florist foam blocks (Oasis).
The full video tutorial shows how to make the sunflower, and the tutorial is sure to be enjoyable and useful for those looking to make their own edible flowers.
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Hi. Love your wafer paper flowers. i have tried the sunflower and roses wafer paper it it turned out so good. I just love all your articles. I must say i like the idea of wafer paper flowers compered to sugar paste as it is much easier to handle when decorating a cake due to the fact that it is so very light where as the sugar paste is much heavier. I live in the Caribbean (St. Lucia) and the wafer paper seems to work quite well in the hot climate. thank you so much. I continue to watch your articles.