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1. Full Tutorial
Watch the full tutorial Succulent Garden cake is a wonderful approach on how to incorporate stunning succulents and cacti plants to your cake. This class will start by creating a lovely texture on the planter box which is going to be adorned later with realistic succulents and cacti. Valeri will deconstruct everything in this slightly challenging class so that you will have a better understanding on how to proceed when you are ready to have a go. Undeniably, this succulent garden arrangement will leave you and whoever receives it in awe.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
- Create a beautiful texture and design to decorate your pot/planter box
- Pipe different succulents
- Pipe succulents and cacti directly on the cake.
- Pipe succulents and cacti on a flower nail.
- Arrange your succulents and cacti on your cake.
Succulent Garden buttercream cake tutorial by Valeri Valeriano
This jaw dropping Succulent Garden cake is a wonderful approach on how to incorporate stunning succulents and cacti plants to your cake. This class will start by creating a lovely texture on the planter box which is going to be adorned later with realistic succulents and cacti. Valeri will deconstruct everything in this slightly challenging class so that you will have a better understanding on how to proceed when you are ready to have a go. Undeniably, this succulent garden arrangement will leave you and whoever receives it in awe.
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
- Create a beautiful texture and design to decorate your pot/planter box
- Pipe different succulents
- Pipe succulents and cacti directly on the cake.
- Pipe succulents and cacti on a flower nail.
- Arrange your succulents and cacti on your cake.
Valeri Valeriano & Christina Ong
Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes is a multi-award winning cake company based in London. Founded in June 2011, the company is headed by cake artists and best friends, Valeri and Christina. It was by sweet accident that these ladies discovered their passion and talent. On Mother’s Day 2011, they wanted to give their two friends whom they consider their “second-mums” something special but not expensive and decided to bake for them...and they have never stopped since. Renowned globally for their edible works of art using nothing else but buttercream as their decorating medium, Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes has been featured in numerous well known blogs, local and international news, magazines, TV Shows and have showcased their masterpieces as well as demonstrated in some of UK’s biggest exhibitions. Valeri and Christina take immense pride in their mastery of buttercream and their goal is to revive and modernize this age-old art.
