Heliconias Sugar Flowers Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

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Heliconias Sugar Flowers
with Arati Mirji
Skill level: Intermediate
HD Lessons: 13
Decorating time: 5 hours
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Watch Arati Make these stunning Heliconias in just one minute!

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Highlights

Highlights from the Heliconias tutorial by Arati Mirji.

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1. Making the bud/flower

In this lesson, Arati shows you how to make the Bud/ flower for the heliconia stem.

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2. Colouring the buds

In this lesson, Arati shows you how to colour the buds and blend the colours such that there are no patches.

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3. Arranging the buds

In this lesson, she shows you how to arrange the buds into a cluster (called inflorescence) for all the bracts starting from the smallest going on to the largest.

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4. Making the first bract

Here, Arati shows you how to make the first bract and covering it up. She shows you how to work the paste and smooth it to get a neat neck.

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5. Attaching the first cluster

Here, she shows you how to attach the first cluster / inflorescence and tape it to the main stem. She shows you the technique to attach the bract such that it adheres firmly to the central stem.

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6. Attaching the second inflorescence

In this lesson, Arati shows you how to attach the 2nd inflorescence and then cover it with the bract. She also shows you how to dry it in the proper manner to give it the required shape.

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7. Attaching the last inflorescence

Here, she shows you how to attach the last and biggest inflorescence to the main stem and the last bract.

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8. Colouring the stem

In this lesson, Arati shows you her way of colouring the entire stem of the heliconia such that the colours blend beautifully and add depth to the whole stem.

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9. Glazing the Heliconia

Lastly, she shows you how to glaze the heliconia.

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10. Other Ideas

Some other ideas presented by Paul.

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Heliconia Sugar Flowers cake tutorial

Learn how to make these stunning Heliconias with renowned cake decorator Arati Mirji.

Fantastic for summer weddings and an incredibly popular sugar floral design.  In this lesson, Arati will teach you how to make incredibly realistic looking flowers that also taste great! This is certainly one cake tutorial you don’t want to miss!

Plenty of valuable techniques to learn in this one…

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to…

  • Cut and wire realistic flowers
  • Use the correct paste
  • Colour and blend buds
  • Wire the flowers and petals together to achieve a natural finish
  • and much, much more

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Arati Mirji

Arati Mirji

Arati Mirji is an acclaimed Sugar Flower artist living in Bengaluru India, pursuing her passion – Cake Art – Her forte being making life like sugar flowers. She comes from a family of artists and it is perhaps this pedigree that has helped her reach where she is today. She started this pursuit a little over four years ago. She is the Winner in the Sugar flower category At Cake Masters Magazine Awards-2018. She has also won the 1st place Gold in the Sugar flower category of “Fireworks” at Cake International 2018.  She was also chosen as one of the top ten Artist for Cake Masters Magazine India – 2017 & 2018 consecutively. Her creations have been featured in various National and International Magazines and she has won many awards in international sugar flower forums. She is forever in the pursuit of making different varieties of sugar flowers –trying to get as close to nature as possible. The biggest complement to her is when people ask her whether the pictures she puts up of her work are real flowers! Her goal is to make flowers that seem to be in bloom on her cakes and the bees and the butterflies choose them instead of the garden! You may view some of Arati’s works on her Facebook page or on Instagram: Arati.mirji
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