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1. Basic Sugarpaste Skills - A Ball
2. Basic Sugarpaste Skills - A Cone
3. Basic Sugarpaste Skills - A Sausage
4. Basic Sugarpaste Skills - Mixing Two Sugarpastes Together
Learn the Core Shapes Used in Almost Every Cake Design
Understanding how to create consistent shapes is one of the most important skills in cake decorating. This Free Sugarpaste Shapes Tutorial focuses on the key forms that appear repeatedly in a wide variety of cake designs. By mastering these simple techniques, you’ll build confidence and improve the overall finish of your decorations, making it easier to create neat and professional-looking results.
Many decorative elements begin with basic shapes, so learning how to form them correctly is an essential starting point. In this series of lessons, Paul Bradford demonstrates how to create reliable shapes that can be used as building blocks for flowers, figures, borders, and decorative accents. His clear explanations and helpful hints make the process straightforward, even for beginners who may be handling sugarpaste for the first time.
You’ll also learn how combining different pastes can improve flexibility and strength, allowing your decorations to hold their shape more effectively. These practical techniques help reduce cracking, improve handling, and make shaping more predictable. With regular practice, these simple skills quickly become second nature and support more advanced decorative work in the future.
In this tutorial series, you will learn how to:
- 🔵 Create a smooth and even ball shape
- 🔺 Form a neat and consistent cone shape
- ➖ Roll a balanced sausage shape for decorative elements
- 🧁 Mix two different pastes together to improve strength and flexibility
By completing this Free Sugarpaste Shapes Tutorial, you’ll gain essential skills that support nearly every decorating project you create. These techniques provide a strong foundation for beginners and help decorators develop greater control, consistency, and confidence when working with sugarpaste.
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This is a great idea, just like having a personal one to one lesson. Love it!
Glad you like it 🙂
Cheers
Thank you so much for your very clear instructions. You make it all look so easy.
Paul, you are priceless.
very good
thanks
Thank you
Very new at this, loving the lesons. Very helpful.
Thanks Josie1977 x
Brilliant clear instructions thanks
Big thank u
Just wanted to say Thank You for these free tuition videos. They are without doubt invaluable to those just starting out. I don’t have masses of knowledge so these basic videos are incredibly helpful. Many thanks.
Thanks for letting us know Claire and glad you’re enjoying them x
Thank you for the clear instructions
Loving all these , very easy to follow, can’t stop watching them!!
Hi Nikkie,
Thank you for the great feedback! We are so happy that you are enjoying the tutorials! If we can help you with anything then please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]
Thanks! D xx
All I can say is big thank u I’m new to all and I’m learning a lot all ready telling my friend about it
Hi Navio,
Thank you so much for getting in touch. We are so happy that you are enjoying the tutorials! If there is anything else we can do for you please do not hesitate to get in contact with us at [email protected] xx
for some reason, I am unable to view the video???
Hi Gaya,
This is very strange, are you logged in? Is your internet working? Feel free to head over to our help section to find out more information, or if you are still having problems, drop me an email at [email protected]
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Thanks! D xx
Thank you,
I was wondering why I kept getting cracks. Is there anything you can do when sugar paste gets hard?
Please can you show some more shapes like bears and men and women, babies etc. this is great btw. X
Hi Awright,
Thank you for the feedback! We have numerous tutorials on these kind of shapes on our website in tutorials available for members. You can find out more about getting a membership from as little as £9,95 per month here –
http://www.designer-cakes.com/membership-options
I hope this helps:)
D xx
Thanks so much this is great I never knew of this web ,am so glad
Hi Marzuqah,
Thank you for the lovely feedback, glad you came across our site and are enjoying it!! x
Hi where can i find your sufrieron paste recupera ? Thanks
Hi Citra, I am sorry I am not sure I understand, can you please explain what you mean.
Many thanks, D x
Thankyou great to watch made the use of sugar paste so easy for the beginers
Thank you for the feedback Lizzy! I hope you enjoy the rest of the tutorials:)
Danielle x
Thankyou for all free lessons, I’m disabled but love cake decorating it’s very challenging for me but pauls lesson really help to make decorating easier fotr me so thankyou to you all.