Sugar rose tutorial

Today, I’m talking about the my sugar rose tutorial. The rose is probably one of the most popular flowers to adorn a wedding cake… but they do take some time to master.

Small sugar roses

Establishing my business in July 2009, initially supplying tea rooms and farm shops with my cupcakes and layer cakes, I ventured into creating wedding cakes six months later in 2010 and have been making sugar roses ever since. I started off small, simply following the instructions in my rose petal cutter set, and by 2011 I was happy with my small roses in that I could consistently make them well…

Large sugar rose

In 2012 I progressed to larger blooms and, alongside fulfilling wedding commissions and honing my other sugarcraft skills, started practising…tweaking, and practising…and tweaking…until I was finally completely satisfied with them in 2014…Or so I thought. I subsequently decided I could improve upon them (my petals were still too ‘clunky’) so practised some more and in 2016 created a large sugar rose I was thoroughly happy with…to adorn this wedding cake…

Large Sugar Rose Tutorial

Yes, being happy with my large sugar roses took a while. So it doesn’t take you so long I decided to create a tutorial, which I launched in May this year. It’s for a sweet-avalanche style rose and comprises twenty-four pages of fully-illustrated, step-by-step instructions, beautifully captured by Amanda Manby Photography, and I’m thrilled so many have chosen to buy it! Here are a few teaser shots from the tutorial itself…