Red Poinsettia Sugar Flower Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Arati starts by showing how to make these amazing central flowers and buds.  They are quite complex with a lot of different and often tiny detailing, but not to worry as Arati takes your through each of them step by step in an easy manner.

In this lesson, Arati shows you how to make the light green bracts or the young shoots extremely lifelike. She shares some amazing new techniques in her wiring method, which are well worth watching.

There are different techniques used here to form the neck of these green bracts and Arati takes you through them step by step showing some excellent examples to show what can be achieved.

Time now to make these amazing red bracts. Arati takes you through each stage showing how to get the shapes, wiring and veining.  

With some extra tips along the way, Arati shows you the different dusting techniques used to colour red bracts. She shows you how the angle in which the brush is held gives different effects and results while colouring and dusting.

Arati now shows you how to assemble the flowers, buds and bracts In sections as opposed to just wiring all of them together onto the main central wire. This makes the assembling much easier and helps to handle such a huge flower with ease.

This is where the magic happens when Arati brings all the elements together to form the most amazing poinsettia flower. Watch to the end to see some great footage, which really shows the depth and detail of this flower.

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