Textured Floral Accents

Description Buttercream flowers have been around for years, but there are no piping skills needed to create this floral cake design. Join cake designer, Rachael Teufel in this class to learn how to make a beautiful two-tiered cake adorned with cascading buttercream and gum paste flowers. To get started, Rachael will guide you through the process of making her favorite Swiss meringue buttercream and share how to properly color Swiss meringue buttercream using a special trick to take those pastel colors to a bold level. Then learn how to arrange your palette efficiently in a way that makes mixing colors easy. Once your palette is ready, she will share a variety of palette knife techniques needed to make blossoms and leaves before she applies them onto the cake. Next, Rachael switches to using gumpaste to create 3-dimensional Gloriosa flowers. You will learn how to shape and color the petals, stamen, and stems, then watch as this flower comes together as each element is put in its place to form a full 6 petaled flower or a half flower with just 3 petals. And finally, see the cake come together with a combination of buttercream and gum paste florals in a cascading style that is sure to wow everyone! Join this class today to become a sugar florist.

• Class Preview
• Introduction
• Making Swiss Meringue Buttercream
• Creating Your Color Palate
• Palette Knife Techniques
• Design Layout
• Palette Knife Florals on Cake
• Gumpaste Glorioso
• Gumpaste Glorioso-Coloring and Assembly
• Placing Gumpaste Flowers