Scabious Sugar Flower Cake Technique Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

For the full tutorial see Butterfly Blue Scabious

Here Robert shares with us his recipes for creating fantastic glaze for various finishes.

This lesson is full of wonderfully delicate work that adds incredible realism to the flowers using everyday items and clever techniques.

Here Robert shows us how to make the beautiful individual flowers that make up the scabious using the coloured flower paste we prepared earlier.

Now that the flowers for the scabious are ready Robert shows us how to colour them using various dusts, as well as some great paint brush techniques.

Here Robert makes the seed pods, which are the centre of the scabious. He demonstrates two methods – one a lot quicker than the other – but you can tell Robert would rather take the long road for the more authentic look.

Robert creates various stages of the scabious life, and in this lesson shows us how to complete the closed bud using various dusts and fine hairs.

Now it’s time to attach the flower to the centre of the scabious and Robert shows us some fantastic techniques to achieve realistic results.

Robert starts off by attaching the smaller flowers, as well as the stamens, to the centre.

In this lesson Robert shows us how to make the calyx which attaches underneath the flower.

We see it really start to come together in this lesson with the finer details being added with careful use of tweezers and homemade edible glue.

Robert uses various dusts mixed together to create wonderful tones and then shows us some great brush techniques to highlight only the key areas.

Robert starts off by showing us how to make the scabious leaf using special cutters he has personally designed which can be purchased through his website. He shows us a clever technique when using leaf cutters which will save you a lot of time. Corn flour is key!

Now that the leaves are ready it’s time to dust them and glaze them using the homemade edible glaze recipe.

Here we see all the different flowers, leaves and everything being turned into a complete arrangement.

Robert shares a little something extra with this great technique for creating contorted hazel, which adds lovely dynamic movement to the arrangement.