BEAUTIFUL WEDDING CAKE TUTORIAL

Author: Carmen Montero

FB: De un bocado

Skill level: INTERMEDIATE

TIP – You can cover your two tiers with Saracino Pasta Top. To learn how to cover your cakes and create sharp edges follow the link

HERE – for picture tutorial

HERE – for video tutorial

You will need:

Saracino Royal Icing
Saracino white flower paste – Pasta Bouquet
Saracino sugar paste/fondant – Pasta Top
2 dummies of 15 and 20cm or a cake of 2 tiers
Rotating base
Scraper
Floral ribbon
Pliers
Brushes
Spatula
Water
Bowl and whisk
Cornstarch
Vegetable fat
18 or 20 gauge floral wire
30 gauge floral wire
Edible glue
Clear alcohol
Powder colours: gold, yellow, green and dark pink
Dogwood cutters set
Set of dogwood veiners
Set of rose cutters
Rose texturizer
Foam pad
Porexpam to puncture the flowers
Ball tool
Rolling pin
Cake stencil with a pattern of your choice

Step 1

To make the roses, start by rolling a piece of Pasta Bouquet to cover the center we are going to use. It does not need to be too thin.

Step 2

Insert a 18 or 20 gauge floral wire into a center for roses (a porexpam cone can be used) and coat it with a little edible glue.

Step 3

Cover the rose centre with the rolled out Pasta Bouquet as shown

Step 4

Cut off the excess and adjust well.

Step 5

We will need 3 centres.

Step 6

Roll a little Pasta Bouquet with a rolling pin until it is very thin (it needs to be as thin as possible so that the petals turn out to be realistic). We will need to cut out 9 small petals.

Step 7

Place the petals on your foam pad and using a ball tool thin the edges

Step 8

Add texture to the petals using a veining mould. Sprinkle a little cornflour on the veiner’s before use to stop the petals sticking.

Step 9

Cover the rose bud with edible glue

Step 10

Place the first petal, leaving a little height over the center.

Step 11

Wrap the petal around the bud so it is tightly closed like the centre in the picture

Step 12

Apply a little glue to the lower half of 2 petals.

Step 13

Place the first of those 2 petals over the fold of the centre petal and at the same height.

Step 14

Fix the second petal directly opposite

Step 15

Pull one edge away from the bud. Insert the opposite petal below and fix to the bud.

Step 16

Turn the flower around and repeat so the two petals are overlapping and look as shown

Step 17

Adjust the sides well so that it is closed.

Step 18

Now we start fixing the next row of petals. We take the first one and place it over the joint of the previous 2 and at the same height as these.

Step 19

From the middle of the petal fix another petal perpendicular to it, then fix the third petal.

Step 20

Put a little edible glue on the side that remains free.

Step 21

Adjust to close over the center but without squeezing too much, so that it gets volume.

Step 22

Cut 3 petals of the largest size and perform the same operation as with the previous ones. We texture and thin the edges with a ball tool as previous petals.

Step 23

Fix this layer of petals as with the previous layer

Step 24

Apply a little glue on the free side and tighten over the center, closing each petal less and less. Curl the top using the handle of a brush to give it movement.

Step 25

Make as many rounds of petals as you want, depending on whether you want a more open or more closed flower.

Step 26

Using a brush put a little cornflour in the dogwood mould so that the Pasta Bouquet does not stick and we can remove it easily.

Step 27

Press a small ball of Pasta Bouquet into the moulds

Step 28

Dip the end of a 26 gauge floral wire into edible glue.

Step 29

Insert the wire into the center of the dogwood.

Step 30

Press the base of the wire so that the center is well attached before removing it from the mould.

Step 31

Carefully, we extract the center. Let’s do about 10 centers to have 10 flowers.

Step 32

Roll out some Pasta Bouquet and cut 2 wide and 2 narrow petals for our dogwood flower.

Step 33

We now need to wire the petals. Place a petal in the veiner, dip the end of a 30 gauge floral wire in edible glue and cover it with a small piece of pasta bouquet to fix it to the petal.