It's so exciting to seeing the petals all there as I am waiting for them to dry up. There's a sense of urgency in putting them together. And just like that a flower is born.
Sugar flowers are something new and exciting for me. Creating and imitating what nature provides for us is quite an adventure. I always intrigued with sugar flowers, of how sugar flower masters like Nicholas Lodge, Alan Dunn, and Ron Ben-Israel do it. I slowly learned how to make them. I pored through books and online picture tutorials of how to make them. Then, I found craftsy.com, is where I learned to make sugar hydrangeas through the fabulous teacher, Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes. She is a fantastic teacher and I was very lucky to be able to learned from her in one of her classes during Cake Love 2012. What an eye opener that class was. When I looked back to the craftsy online tutorial, I was more confident with the technique and although my flowers are far than perfect, they are significantly better than before. I braved myself to make more flowers and bought another tutorial from craftsy again, and this time it's making sugar orchids with James Rosselle. I ended up making about 5 of those sugar orchids. By orchids no.4, they look much better than no.1 or no. 2 and 3.
I used the sugar flowers as part of my Mom-in-law's birthday celebration. She wanted a show-stopper cake and a table spread. We looked at what we have at home and we did a simple yet effective table spread with a very minimal cost.
Here are some photos from the event, and the picture of the cake that I made for her.
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| table spread with the view of the red velvet cupcake tiers |
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| side view of the cake with sugar orchids and hydrangeas |
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| "beauty shot" of the cake |
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| close up of the sugar orchids |
