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Realistic Gumpaste Rose Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Arati Mirji joins us to teach a stunning course on how to create a realistic gumpaste rose. Arati breaks down how to make realistic roses that are so realistic, it's hard to believe they aren't real!

Learn Arati's step-by-step process, including what type of gumpaste she uses, her tricks and techniques for making the petals and coloring the rose.

1:24:51 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a realistic and flexible gumpaste rose
  • Learn how to create the rose center and petals
  • How to create the leaves and calyx
  • Arati's tips and tricks to get a beautiful realistic gumpaste flower

Realistic Gumpaste Rose Tutorial

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Variances of Gumpaste 0:27
  2. Unique qualities of Gumpaste 1:36
  3. Coloring the Gumpaste 4:16
  4. Preparing the paste 5:40
  5. Covering the center 16:49
  6. Assembling the petals 19:10
  7. Making 2nd set of petals 30:32
  8. Assembling 2nd set of petals 35:10
  9. Making 3rd set of petals 40:30
  10. Shaping 3rd set of petals 43:40
  11. Assembling 3rd set of petals 46:02
  12. Making 4th set of petals 50:32
  13. Shaping 4th set of petals 53:42
  14. Making the calyx 59:32
  15. Attaching the calyx 1:03:20
  16. Shaping the calyx 1:05:25
  17. Coloring the cream flower 1:06:22
  18. Making the leaves 1:13:40
  19. Coloring the leaves 1:17:26
  20. Assembling the leaves 1:21:28
  21. Attaching the leaves 1:23:43

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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.