Pretty Porcelain Wedding Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Penny demonstrates how to make all the parts that make up the peony flower, using easy to follow techniques.

Penny demonstrates making the leaves, using three different cutters to produce the four leaves. You’ll also learn what to do when your flower paste dries and cracks.

In this lesson, Penny shows us how to bring all the parts to life with some clever dust work, which involves using our fingers.

Penny shows us how to put all the pieces together using florist tape, a creative eye and a little creative licence. Penny is fairly flexible – as long as the flower has a nice healthy round shape – so get creative and have fun!

Penny finishes the peony by adding the leaves.

Penney demonstrates how to create templates. She uses them to mark her cake in preparation for doing some piped royal icing work.

Penney continues using icing for her piped royal icing work.

In this lesson, Penney shows us how to make lovely decorations, which will be added to the cake using Mexican paste.

Penney gets the pipings bags, nozzles and royal icing out and shows us how to me the cake look extra pretty, with some nice little techniques.

It’s as simple as counting to two or three and then pulling the nozzle away as you release your grip. See what lovely things you can do with little movements.

Now for the plaque. Penney has made a design for Paul, but it’s very easy to make your own – and just see how pretty it can make the overall design!

Penney stacks the cake putting it all together. She then adds the finishing touch – the peony flower.

Paul shares some other ideas you can try out when you’re making this cake. We’re sure you have some of your own great ideas and we’d love to see what you come up with.

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In this lesson, Paul shares some insider information about the cost to make this cake, as well as pricing, portions and other vital information for any professional cake designer.