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Updated on December 8, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Ranunculus Flower Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Ashley Barbey from The Little Vintage Baking Company brings us a beautiful autumn-themed Ranunculus flower tutorial. Ranunculus flowers are known for layer upon layer of silky petals, creating an amazing delicate bloom. Ashley combines this ranunculus with oak leaves, filler berries and flowers to create a stunning floral spray.

Learn how to create these pieces and how to properly insert and arrange these flowers on a cake.

1:46:12 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create sugar ranunculus flower
  • Learn how to make filler berry clusters and oak leaves
  • How to arrange flowers on a cake

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making Ranunculus center 0:39
  2. Making 1st row of petals 6:05
  3. Attaching petals to center 9:26
  4. Making 2nd row of petals 13:38
  5. Placing 2nd row of petals 14:44
  6. Making 3rd row of petals 18:13
  7. Attaching 3rd row of petals 22:01
  8. Making 4th row of petals 26:16
  9. Placing 4th row of petals 28:34
  10. Making 5th row of petals 31:30
  11. Placing 5th row of petals 33:19
  12. Making 6th row of petals 36:46
  13. Placing 6th row of petals 37:19
  14. Making 7th row of petals 41:52
  15. Placing 7th row of petals 43:17
  16. Making 8th row of petals 48:47
  17. Placing 8th row of petals 50:36
  18. Making the calyx 54:35
  19. Placing the calyx 56:33
  20. Dusting Ranunculus 57:53
  21. Making berry cluster 1:03:19
  22. Dusting berry cluster 1:04:41
  23. Assembling the berry cluster 1:07:29
  24. Making the blossoms 1:11:33
  25. Dusting the blossoms 1:16:16
  26. Wrapping blossoms 1:19:17
  27. Making oak leaves 1:20:13
  28. Dusting oak leaves 1:24:08
  29. Wrapping oak leaves 1:37:06
  30. Making an arrangement 1:38:07

Downloads

Materials List

Oak Leaf Cutter Template

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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