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An online course with Winifred Kriste teaching you everything you need to know on how to design sugar flower wedding cakes, including Juliet garden roses, traditional roses, hydrangea, fruits and foliages.
In this introduction to the course, Winifred shares her journey in cake design and sugar flower creation. She shows the completed, three-tier cake and delicate florals she will be teaching, while introducing the specific techniques that will be demonstrated.
Watch and learn as Winifred demonstrates covering an 8” faux tier with fondant. She’ll share all of her tools of the trade, along with her tips for achieving sharp edges on your cakes. She will also talk through her advice for working with real tiers. Once the faux tier is covered, Winifred shows step-by-step one of her signature texture techniques that adds an interesting finish to a simple design.
Making gumpaste is an important foundational technique to master when it comes to perfecting your sugar art. In this video Winifred shares her gumpaste recipe and shows step-by-step how she makes and stores her own gumpaste.
Hydrangea florets are a filler flower Winifred uses in almost all of her cake designs. In this first sugar flower technique video, Winifred demonstrates step-by-step how she makes these tiny, delicate flowers. She will also cover some of the fundamental techniques of learning how to work with gumpaste, before progressing onto more intricate techniques in coming videos.
Learn how Winifred achieves her signature, blush-toned palette through the use of mixing gel colors. Covering basic colour theory and an explanation of how to neutralize shades, Winifred teaches the techniques she uses for creating the colors used in all of her sugar flowers and cake designs. If you have a question about Winifred’s sought-after earthy tones, it will be covered in this video.
In this detailed tutorial, Winifred demonstrates step-by-step how to create a classic sugar flower rose with a life-like quality. She will talk through her tools and materials, how to cut and create a variety of petal shapes and sizes, applying each petal of your rose, and adding a calyx as the finishing touch. The techniques taught in this video can be applied to help you make a variety of different-sized roses.
Learn how to make supporting elements to accompany your sugar flowers, such as berries and fruits. In this video Winifred shows you how she colors and creates apricots to incorporate in with her final sugar flower arrangements on cakes, and explains other similar fruits to which you could apply this technique.
Adding elements such as leaves and vines to your sugar flower art adds a life-like quality to your flowers, and allows you to achieve movement in your final arrangements on the cake. Learn step-by-step how Winifred creates her natural leaves and foliage, and how she incorporates them with her sugar flower fruits and flowers.
Dusting is the “secret” to achieving the life-like quality Winifred is renowned for with her sugar flowers. While coloring the gum paste is step 1 in the coloring process, the dusting is what really brings the flowers to life. In this video Winifred shares all of her tools, materials, and colors used in dusting, and then demonstrates how she mixes shades and dusts a range of sugar flowers including hydrangea florets, fruit, leaves and roses.
Now you have mastered working with fondant and gumpaste and creating a range of sugar flowers, learn how to incorporate all of your florals into an arrangement on your cake. Applying the finished pieces to a three-tier cake, Winifred will talk through her process step-by-step as the final design comes to life. She will also share her tips for storing and transporting sugar flower-adorned cakes.
Master the art of creating the most iconic wedding flower - the Juliet garden rose. In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn everything you need to know from the necessary tools and materials Winifred uses, through to making the rose bud, cutting and applying petals, adding a calyx and dusting the completed flower.
Expand your sugar flower repertoire by learning to create a dahlia with this step-by-step video tutorial. Requiring a different approach to that of a rose, Winifred demonstrates her approach to creating this iconic summer flower from start to finish.
Recap all of the techniques you have mastered in this course and listen to Winifred discuss her hopes for you in applying these new skills to the designs you create in your business.
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Discover how to create statement sugar flower wedding cake designs. Learn to make sought-after pieces including Juliet garden roses, traditional roses, hydrangea, fruits and foliages; and how to work with fondant, mix gumpaste, and use gel coloring and dusting to develop unique palettes.
This course is designed to support you wherever you are in your cake design journey. If you’ve never attempted sugar flowers or fondant before, you can start with the basics and learn the tools and materials required, as well as how to cover real and faux tiers with fondant and mix the gum paste you’ll be working with to create your sugar flowers. With that mastered, you’ll be ready to jump into the individual sugar flower technique classes.
Winifred Kristé’s sugar flower creations are renowned for their lifelike quality and unique color palettes. If you’re looking to elevate your designs and expand your own repertoire of skills to take your portfolio to the next level, you’ll love the level of detail in this course. Beyond the basics, you will learn more about creating textured fondant, developing muted and earthy tones through color mixing and dusting, as well as how to add that lifelike quality to all of your florals.
Absolutely! Our goal with creating this course was to ensure its teachings could be applied no matter your level of experience or the size of your clients’ budgets. Each sugar floral element is taught individually, so whether it’s applying a couple of delicate leaves and hydrangea florets to accent a cake, or an elaborate array of roses, you will be able to achieve both from what you will learn in this course.