Sugar Roses and Flower Box Cake

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Sugar Roses and Flower Box Cake

Work with gumpaste to create lifelike sugar roses. Create a Venus Et Fleur style flower box cake to place the flowers in!

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Learn How to Create Realistic Sugar Roses and a Flower Box Cake!

In this course you will learn how to create realistic sugar roses out of gumpaste as well as a flower box cake to display your roses in. We will cover every detail from making gumpaste from scratch, to rolling and cutting petals, and shaping the flower to form a beautiful rose. You will build and ganache a perfectly round 4 layer cake. We will use fondant and paint to transform the cake into a detailed flower box in the famous Venus Et Fleur style. Lastly, we will place the roses on the cake to bring the flower box to life!

This class has six lessons that will cover every step from forming the flowers to building and decorating the cake, to create lifelike roses in a flower box cake!

Gumpaste Rose and Flower Box Cake

Lesson 1 – Rose centers and first layer of petals

Forming the center buds for the roses.

How to color and roll out gumpaste.

Thinning and shaping the petals on the flower to form the first layer on the rose.

Lesson 2 – Second and third layers of petals

How to prevent the gumpaste from drying out as you work on multiple roses.

Adding additional layers of petals and creating the rose spiral.

Ensuring proper drying time between layers of petals.

Lesson 3 – Build and ganache the cake

Trimming and building layers of cake evenly.

Adding structural support for the tall cake.

Working with ganache to achieve a leveled cake with perfectly straight sides.

Lesson 4 - Fondant the flower box cake

Strengthening fondant to allow it to dry fast and sturdy.

Rolling out fondant evenly and applying it to the cake smoothly and seamlessly.

Adding proper support to allow the fondant to stand tall above the sides of the cake.

Lesson 5 – Create the text templates. Transfer and paint the templates on the cake

Create templates for the text and design’s to be transferred onto the flower box.

Paint fine detail with gold luster dust, steadily and neatly on the cake.

Lesson 6- Fourth layer of petals and placing the roses in the cake

Add the final layers of petals, shape them to bloom openly.

Place the roses on the cake to bring the flower box to life!

Your Instructor

Melissa Alt

Melissa's passion for creating cakes began early on when she was just a teen. She would watch cake shows on TV and thought, "I want to try that!". Instantly she spent all of her free time reading books and searching the web to learn anything she could about cake decorating. She was always an artist, working with paint, clay and fashion design, but when she discovered the art of cake, it became her all time favorite medium to work with.

In 2010, Melissa landed an internship with the Cake Boss, where she learnt the fundamentals of cake decoration. While attending college at Pratt Institute, Melissa studied painting and sculpture; incorporating edible materials into any project she could. After college Melissa turned her passion for cakes into a career, launching Melissa Alt Cakes in 2015.

Since the start of her business Melissa's cakes have been featured in numerous magazines and reached international recognition. She's created cakes for Google, Time Out NYC and Harper’s Bazaar. She won the award for Best Show Cake at the 2017 NY Cake Show. In the spring/summer of 2018 Melissa worked as the Culinary producer for Reality Bites Cupcakes on Food Network. Melissa is also the exclusive cake decorator for Dylan's Candy Bar in NYC.

Melissa's cakes are her art. She strives to create one of a kind artistic creations that form an experience of joy and beauty. When she is not making cakes you can find Melissa cuddling her dog, camping, watching a horror movie or drinking delicious IPA on a rooftop. She is constantly inspired by her surrounding environments and adventures. Each cake Melissa makes is an expression of herself. Extreme passion, dedication and numerous hours are put into every piece of work Melissa creates. Her favorite moment is when the creation is cut and her art becomes delicious cake!

To Melissa there is nothing she loves more than the art of cake and being able to share it with the world :)

Course Curriculum

Introduction

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Overview

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Introduction to Sugar Roses and Flower Box Cake (0:56)

Prep Ahead- Gumpaste, Cake, Buttercream, Ganache

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Gumpaste Recipe

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Chocolate Cake Recipe (3:44)

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Oreo Buttercream Recipe (3:36)

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Ganache Recipe (2:53)

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List of All Supplies

Lesson 1: Rose centers and first layer of petals

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List of supplies

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Cutting and prepping the floral wire (2:26)

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Center gumpaste buds (3:08)

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Coloring the gumpaste (4:56)

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Adding the first layer of petals (10:18)

Lesson 2: Second and third layers of petals

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Lighten the gumpaste color (1:27)

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Add the second layer of petals (4:43)

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Lighten the gumpaste- second time (0:50)

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Add the third layer of petals (9:19)

Lesson 3: Build and ganache the cake

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Trimming the 8" board (1:42)

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Build the first two layers of cake (9:45)

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Add the second two layers of cake (3:38)

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First layer of ganache (5:39)

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Second layer of ganache (9:51)

Lesson 4: Fondant the flower box cake

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Prepare the 8" styrofoam dummy (4:46)

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Apply fondant to the top of the flower box (2:52)

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Apply the fondant to the sides of the cake (16:44)

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Attach the flower box cake to the cake drum (1:50)

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Attach the fondant border (5:34)

Lesson 5: Create the text templates. Transfer and paint the templates on the cake.

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Trace the top center decoration (5:15)

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Trace the bottom band text- side 1 (2:39)

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Prep and trace the bottom band text- side 2 (5:14)

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Prep the tracings for transfer (3:18)

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Transfer the center decorative text on the cake (4:36)

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Transfer the bottom band text on each side (3:39)

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Paint the center design (7:41)

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Paint the bottom band text- side 1 (1:24)

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Paint the bottom band text- side 2 (0:42)

Lesson 6: Fourth layer of petals and placing the roses in the cake

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Add the fourth layer of petals (7:30)

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Place the roses in the flower box cake (7:32)

Finale of Sugar Roses and Flower Box Cake

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We are done! Lets see our beautiful work completed! (1:35)

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Share your art!

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