Sweet Magnolia Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

This month's guest instructor is the one-and-only Sara Weber of Sara's Sweets in Austin, Texas.

Sara brings us a dosey of a cake design, complete with saucer magnolias, rustic wooden fence planks, a bee-utiful bee bas relief design and a botanical watercolor flower illustration tying several techniques into one seamless cake.

2:07:01 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to make magnolia sugar flowers, leaves and floral arrangements
• Learn how to create a rustic wooden plank design that mimics a fence
• Sara's technique to transfer a botanical flower illustration onto a cake tier
• How to create a bas relief design using several different molds

Tutorial Chapters

1. Making the magnolia centers 1:59
2. Making the stamens 4:30
3. Dusting the center 7:48
4. Adding pollen 8:22
5. Making the buds 11:27
6. Making Magnolia petals 17:41
7. Making Magnolia leaves 25:59
8. Dusting the petals 33:55
9. Steaming the petals 42:21
10. Dusting the leaves 45:07
11. Dipping the leaves 47:20
12. Dusting the buds 49:55
13. Flower assembly 52:15
14. Assembling the leaves 57:32
15. Making the wooden planks 59:12
16. Creating the wood grain 1:08:18
17. Coloring the wood 1:10:37
18. Attaching planks to cake tier 1:13:36
19. Transfer images to cake tier 1:18:24
20. Painting watercolor flowers 1:22:43
21. Making the bee bas relief 1:34:16
22. Tips for working with bas relief 1:40:44
23. Applying bas relief to cake tier 1:44:06
24. Assembling the tiers 1:46:48
25. Bringing bas relief down 1:50:32
26. Watercolor wash 1:52:36
27. Adding the final shine 1:55:15
28. Adding flowers 1:56:16
29. Adding the bees 1:59:52
30. Adding moss 2:01:40