Some weeks ago I finished a tutorial on how to make gum paste roses for cake decorating, and then I followed that up with a brief note on making gum paste leaves as well. Since that ended up being about a 6-week process in total, I decided I should take a break from gum paste […]
Over the last few weeks, I’ve shared the process of making gum paste roses for decorating cakes. And, one day, while I riffled through my cake supplies, I came across one of my favourite gum paste tools – A silicone leaf veiner! I wasn’t planning to make a leaf tutorial, but I figured that I […]
Okay everyone, we’ve finally made it to the last post of my gum paste rose tutorial! So far, we’ve made the Rose Base, the Rose Bud, the Medium Rose, and the Full Rose… and today, we get to change its colour! For this tutorial, I made the roses with a white base to show you how […]
Ok everybody, we’ve made it to the last step of making our gum paste edible roses! If you’ve been following me for the past little while, you would have first learned to make the Rose Base, then the Rose Bud, and then the Medium Rose. Today we’re moving on to the next step: the full […]
Let me tell you, making gum paste roses (which definitely requires both hands) and taking pictures of the process (alone) is not easy. Especially when the sun dips behind a cloud every few seconds, making my camera settings need to be adjusted frequently. I feel like I should win some kind of prize… Anyway, on […]
Continuing on from My Last Post, today I’m going to teach you how to make the second part of the edible rose… The rose bud! Before we get into it, however, I want to remind you: my rose tutorials have longs lists of tools and instructions, but don’t be intimidated! They aren’t that difficult, once […]
Hey everybody! Today I want to start the process of teaching you how to make a simple gum paste rose; i.e, an edible, realistic looking rose for decorating cakes. The beginning of the process is simple: the rose base. The reason I say “Simple” is because I’m going to teach you how to build the roses […]
