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
- Making the magnolia centers
- Making the stamens
- Dusting the center
- Adding pollen
- Making the buds
- Making Magnolia petals
- Making Magnolia leaves
- Dusting the petals
- Steaming the petals
- Dusting the leaves
- Dipping the leaves
- Dusting the buds
- Flower assembly
- Assembling the leaves
- Making the wooden planks
- Creating the wood grain
- Coloring the wood
- Attaching planks to cake tier
- Transfer images to cake tier
- Painting watercolor flowers
- Making the bee bas relief
- Tips for working with bas relief
- Applying bas relief to cake tier
- Assembling the tiers
- Bringing bas relief down
- Watercolor wash
- Adding the final shine
- Adding flowers
- Adding the bees
- Adding moss