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Highlights
Highlights from the peony flower hoop course.
1. Outline
In this lesson, Natalie explains the design and shows her already stacked three tier cake.
NOTE: If you need guidance on stacking or covering double barrelled cakes, check out Paul’s COVERING A DOUBLE BARRELLED CAKE and STACKING CAKES courses.
2. Making the Peonies
Peonies are beautiful flowers so worth watching how Natalie first shapes the petals then neatly adds them to the buds.
3. Buds and Berries
In this lesson Natalie shows you how to easily and effectively create these lovely buds and berries. She then leaves them to dry before getting ready to add the colour.
4. Making the Leaves
Getting the right shade is very important to the end result when it comes to leaves. Natalie talks through her colour mixes and then goes on to create a number of different shaped leaves, giving each one its own character.
5. Dusting the flowers
It’s fun time!! This is the part that Natalie enjoys most when she can bring all the leaves, buds and petals to life by adding some tasteful colours. Learn how Natalie chooses the right shade for each leaf, bud and petal then neatly applies to give an amazing finish.
6. Taping and making the hoop
Now that all the buds, petals and leaves are all dusted and ready to go, all we need now is to tape them together. In this lesson Natalie shows how to bring them all together and creates the floral hoop in preparation for bringing it all together on the cake.
7. Bringing it all together
This is where the magic happens. Bringing everything together is where cake artist meets flower arranger, so let your artistic side run wild. Alternatively, follow Natalie as she brings together an amazing arrangement and giving commentary which should help you decide what to place where.
8. Other ideas
Natalie shares with you some ideas you can use for the peony flower hoop.
9. Pro lesson
Everything a professional cake decorator needs to know about making a design like this
Learn How to Make a Peony Flower Hoop for Your Cakes
Discover how to make a peony flower hoop for wedding cakes and other special-occasion designs with renowned sugar artist Natalie Porter.
In this detailed cake decorating tutorial, Natalie shows you how to create a beautiful edible peony and arrange it with delicate buds, leaves and filler flowers. You will then learn how to bring the individual elements together to form an elegant floral hoop.
The finished hoop creates a striking focal point and gives the impression that the sugar flowers are floating around the cake. Although it looks impressively intricate, Natalie breaks the design into manageable stages so you can understand how each element is created and assembled.
What You Will Learn
During this tutorial, Natalie will show you how to:
- Make a realistic edible sugar peony
- Create complementary flower buds
- Design delicate filler flowers
- Dust the flowers and buds to add colour and depth
- Arrange the individual sugar flowers
- Construct and decorate a floral hoop
- Attach and position the finished hoop safely
- Adapt the design for different cakes and occasions
Create an Elegant Sugar Flower Wedding Cake
This peony flower hoop makes a stunning addition to a wedding, anniversary or celebration cake. You can recreate Natalie’s complete design or use the individual flowers and techniques in your own cake projects.
The skills covered can also help you improve your sugar flower making, colouring and floral arrangement. Once you understand the construction method, you can experiment with different flowers, colours and hoop arrangements to complement your own style.
If you love creating sugar flowers or want to add a contemporary floral feature to your cakes, this is one tutorial you will not want to miss.
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