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Published on February 15, 2021 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Wafer Paper Roses Wedding Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Anna Astashkina is back with another amazing project for us featuring wafer paper roses. Anna breaks down how to work with wafer paper, and offers several helpful tips and tricks to get color onto wafer paper and how to glue them together without dissolving the material.

Anna also shows how to arrange the flowers in a pleasing pattern onto a beautifully hand-painted cake, using a technique that adds texture and variation. We've got a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!

1:33:17 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create and arrange beautiful wafer paper roses
  • Learn how to wire, vein and color leaves and petals
  • How to color wafer paper without harming the material

Tutorial Chapters

  1. What is wafer paper? 1:03
  2. Making wafer paper glue 2:35
  3. Cutting the leaves 5:40
  4. Wiring the leaves 7:11
  5. Shaping the leaves 9:23
  6. Assembling the leaves 17:53
  7. Dusting the leaves 20:45
  8. Cutting the flowers 24:02
  9. Shaping the flowers 26:51
  10. Making the flower center 42:58
  11. Making the flower bud 49:34
  12. Assembling the flower 54:15
  13. Dusting the flower 1:06:04
  14. Painting the cake 1:08:37
  15. Preparing the arrangements 1:22:27
  16. Adding flowers to the cake 1:27:08

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.