Wedding Cakes

Sugar Flowers For Wedding Cakes

When choosing a wedding cake matters so much how it looks and not only if it is tasty. Is it easy to mold and use our imagination to decorate a wedding cake? and if we want to do something new … how easy it is to do this? In the following we will show you that it can make beautiful flowers for wedding cakes and home cooked and it takes some imagination and patience to succeed. Is it just as hard to make a wedding cake and it seems that it is difficult and sometimes impossible to make the decorations for the wedding cake? so i propose you to learn today how to make sugar paste flowers for wedding cakes that look as close to reality.




Make a big ball from the sugar paste, which has a peak at one end (as you do the middle of the rose), then stretch the edges. Then cut out the shape of a flower (there is such a from from plastic for biscuits), only to come higher. Petals lie inside as it was. After the petals were spread on the back, go back and spread the petals on the face.

Make a hole in the middle with the tip and that can be also the tail brush. The hole widens with moves in one side and, in another, then press the edges to be straight with the petals. Buckle a little the petals and let them dry a bit and put it into a glass. With a brush and colorured liquid is more intense in the middle and then wipe the brush from the color up to the petal. Ready to let it dry and then put in the middle a bean of sugar paste or a few stamens.

These flowers are made of caramel sugar by specialist confectioners, and are very popular for all ages, bringing back a childhood memory. Thus each wedding cake decorated with sugar flowers become again a pleasant memory for the whole family. Sugar flowers assorted and edible used to decorate the wedding cakes are a genial idea for modern brides because these flowers make a good and cheap solution for decorative.

The weight of a sugar flower is about 5 grams, and their dimensions are 3×3 cm (snapdragon) that 5×4 cm (lilies). Available colors in assortment are orange, pink, red, yellow, and you’ll find 8 pieces assortment Snapdragon (2 pcs per each color) and 8 pcs lilies (each 2 pieces per color). The flowers are packaged in plastic blister (a total of 16 pieces in box), on the layers of waxed paper. Warning! Sugar flowers will not come on top of or near the tops wet (including cream made over or near water), because of the risk of melting and the migration of their colors.

The recipe I use I found it on youtube, and is my favorite. Sugar paste made after this recipe is more resistant to moisture, can be stored in the refrigerator for up to six months, and the flowers can be stored in plastic containers for months, look like porcelain flowers and do not break as easily as flowers made according to other sugar paste recipes. The key ingredient is tyleose’s a white powder, which gives the pulp yield, resistance to moisture and extend shelf life. It can be spread very, very thin, and if sugar is sifted through fine sieve, the paste has a smooth consistency. Like property, I should mention that this paste dries quickly. Thus, the paste that you wish to use later must be well packed and sealed.