Flower Cakes
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Make a Cake Pretty with Flowers
Image by mags20_eb on Flickr.
Some Basics
for making flower cakes
I was expecting to be able to find links to tutorials for making flowers for cakes pretty easily but, in fact, most of the links are commercial and not very to the point. The best tutorials are on YouTube. Below this link list you'll find my favorite videos.
- Edible Flower List
- Comprehensive list of real flowers that are edible.
- Chrysanthemum Cupcakes
- Really cute chrysanthemum cupcakes that look like a great way to practice learning how to make icing flowers.
- Easy Funky Fondant Flower Cake
- From the Wilton cake decorating site, you use cookie cutters to make layers of flowers for this cake.
- Individual Hydrangea Cakes
- Great design for beginning decorators.
- How to Make a Candy Clay Rose
- "Candy Clay" is a Wilton invention that is a package of their candy melts combined with corn syrup to make a kind of clay that can be shaped by hand.
- Fondant "Yarn" Looped Flowers
- This recipe shows you how to use strips of fondant to make cute daisies. They look like yarn flowers to me.
Different Types of Flowers for Cakes
KitchenAid Professional 600 Series
KitchenAid KP26M1XNP Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Nickel Pearl
Amazon Price: $359.99 (as of 05/30/2012)
Mixing up icing, frosting, fondant, gum paste, and other essentials for making flower cakes will be a whole lot easier using a KitchenAid mixer. I speak from experience. There is just no comparison to life before to life after getting the mixer. I have a 375 watt mixer and although it works, it struggles with things like divinity. So if you're going to be mixing stiff ingredients such as gum paste I recommend starting with as much power as you can afford.
General Cake Decorating Books
Including flowers...
How To Make Sugar Flowers
Cookbooks
Cricut Cake Diecut Machine
Flower Cake Pans
Flower Shaped Sugar Decorations
Tiny Sugar Flower Shaped Sprinkles
Flower Design Molds
For Fondant or Gumpaste
Order Premade Flowers
You can order flowers already made. See some sources below.
Beautiful Edible Flowers
from Modern Luxe Events on Etsy
12 Edible Wedding Cake Topper Sugar Succulents | Price: $115
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Edible Sugar Flower Calla Lilies 12 qty- Choose Any Color for Wedding Cake Topper, Wedding cake, cake topper, birthday cake | Price: $39
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25 Sugar Hydrangea Singles - for cakes, cupcakes, desserts | Price: $15
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Sugar Flower Cake Topper Peony - Wedding Cake Topper - 3.5 inch Sugar Full Peony Choose your color | Price: $31
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reserved peony and 2 leaves - priority shipping | Price: $26
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French Style Flowers
from Alla Prima Designs - Cake Couture
Edible Cake Decorations- 50 Fall Gumpaste Leave and Sugar Blossoms- Autumn Harvest Package | Price: $80
Perfect for any Fall celebration!
This listing is for 20 sugar blossoms and 30 Fall leaves in various shades of orange, green, plum, purple, dusty... (full description)
Red Rose Edible Cupcake Topper : Edible Cake Decor - Gumpaste Flowers - 24 Wild Sugar Roses with Silver Pearl Centers - FREE SHIPPING | Price: $100
This listing is for 24 Wild Rose Sugar Flowers with Silver Pearl centers
These edible sugar flowers can be dressed up or dressed down. They look f... (full description)
Gumpaste Roses- 12 Medium Sugar Blossoms- Edible Cake Decor- DIY Wedding- FREE SHIPPING | Price: $100
Incredibly feminine and perfectly lovely! This listing is for 12 hand made sugar flowers that are elegant and yet playful with the edible glitter and... (full description)
Pink Rose and Green Rose Buds- Cluster of Three Gumpaste Flowers | Price: $25
This listing is for one rose and two green, unopened rose buds.
This rose is hand painted wit edible paint in vibrant pink with a center that has a... (full description)
Gumpaste Flowers - 3 Ranunculus Sugarflowers - Edible cake decor- DIY Wedding | Price: $65
I absolutely love ranunculus and decided to give these beauties a touch of whimsy with spiral centers and lots of edible glitter. If you have specifi... (full description)
Edible Cupcake Toppers - Gumpaste Flowers - Set of 18 Plum and Purple Pansies, Iris and Dogwood Sugar Blossoms | Price: $32
Embellish your baked goods with this gorgeous mix of purple dogwood blossoms, iris and pansies. Perfect as cupcake toppers, cookie toppers and Fall we... (full description)
Edible Cupcake Toppers- 72 Fall Gumpaste Flowers- Jewel Toned Dogwood Blossoms- FREE SHIPPING | Price: $100
Celebrate Fall and the changing of the seasons with these gorgeous jewel-toned dogwood blossoms. Perfect as cupcake toppers, cookie topper and Fall w... (full description)
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Mar 6, 2012 @ 11:17 am | delete
- To beautiful to be eaten.
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colleen_w
Dec 11, 2011 @ 9:00 pm | delete
- A cake with flowers on it is quite beautiful... Sometimes it is almost too beautiful to cut...
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JoanneOtt
Oct 17, 2010 @ 10:37 pm | delete
- I love flowers on cakes. Sometimes they are too pretty to eat.
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WhiteOak50
Oct 13, 2010 @ 6:53 am | delete
- There are a lot of good links on this page to help others who are decorating cakes. Good job. Blessed by a SquidAngel!
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nightcats
Oct 11, 2010 @ 2:02 pm | delete
- Flowers on cakes are beautiful, no matter how they're made. I have never tried cake decoration myself but I certainly admire the work done by others.
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