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Make lifelike flowers from gumpaste and royal icing with help from this book for use on your cakes and other baked goodies, from lilies and roses to orchids. The book is small in dimension but has a lot of content. The book is concise with 20 different flowers to make as the title suggests, ranging from using specialist sugarcraft cutters to piping nozzles. There are diagrams for each step, which help visualise the instructions and make it easier to follow. In addition to making the flowers, there are display options for each flower type. The results are stunning if not a little intimidating, but by jumping straight in and practising, you can find that your results can be just as good.-Popular Crafts My first sugarcraft project was making a rose out of fondant icing, and this craft does lend itself to the fashioning of floral items. Here is a whole book of different flowers and arrangements to create out of sugar to decorate cakes, tables and more. There is a recipe for royal icing in here, short and sweet (pardon the pun) but you will need to look elsewhere for recipes for other types of frosting such as gum paste. You can buy them ready made of course, and this book gets instantly down the business of telling you exactly what you need to make the projects and then there are the projects themselves. There are twenty of these of course, each one taking up two pages. There are written instructions, a picture of the finished item attractively presented to inspire you, and best of all in my opinion a helpful page showing what the component parts look like before assembly. This takes much of the mystery out of creating these beautiful flowers, and on the same page is a small inset photograph of a completed item, but not actually presented in as full a way as in the main picture. I find this staged approach very helpful, and it is surprising how little space you need to lay out a project in this manner. Choose from the inevitable roses, simple daisies, glorious bright gerbera, cheerful daffodils, elegant orchids, buds, leaves and even a butterfly to enhance your work. Substitute the frostings for polymer clay and you extend the use of the book - one for the keeper shelf that shows how easy it really is to make very professional looking sugar flowers.-Myshelf.com
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Lifelike flowers and foliage are yours to make with this great book from Lisa Slatter. Twenty projects cover a variety of sugar flowers including incredibly lifelike roses, lilies and orchids. Experienced cake decorator and author Lisa Slatter shows you how to make these wonderful flowers from first principles and simple shapes. This book will appeal to everyone from beginners to flower experts with a mix of fantastic and true-to-life flowers and foliage.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Purchased for my wife who is doing the PME sugar flowers course at the moment. She loves this book. It has clear step by step instructions with pictures of the steps and of the final items. Easy to follow and a good study aid for sugar flowers. Great value too.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Got this as I wanted to learn myself how to do flowers and this book is wonderful!!
I loved the fact that it has step by step pictures as well as the written instructions so you know what it is meant to look like at each step!
I loved the fact that it has step by step pictures as well as the written instructions so you know what it is meant to look like at each step!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this book. It has very clear instructions and pictures to show you how to make each flower. There are lots of popular flowers in it so something to suit everyone. I highly reccomend this book.
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Worth its money
This book only shows you how to make flowers, but ideal & really simple instructions. I was actually looking for how to make roses, but worth its money.
Published 17 days ago by miss m mcnamara
lovely little book
this lovely little book has clear instruction for all
amateur and cake makers and decorators beautifully illustrated step by step.
amateur and cake makers and decorators beautifully illustrated step by step.
Published 1 month ago by maryrose
Excelent book!
Really usefull book! So much insperation!Loved it!Always wanted to learn how to make beautiful flowers! Read more
Published 3 months ago by anna
easy sugar flowers
This is a great book to have if you want to learn how to make sugar flowers. I found it very easy to follow and the flowers are great. Read more
Published 4 months ago by heathfran
20Twenty to make Sugar flowers
I love the book but for me, as a beginner, I need step by step guidance, there isn't enough in this book to take me from the very basics, to good, to the very good. Read more
Published 6 months ago by miss ellie
Sugarcraft flowers
This is a small paperback book which is packed with projects.The flowers made look very real and do not require a genius to make them. Read more
Published 7 months ago by RJ
easy to follow
i bought this book because i wanted some ideas, its very easy to follow with plenty of flowers to make as well as some fantasy flowers, good tips and lovely colours also its a... Read more
Published 11 months ago by carolinejdh
sugar flowers 20 to make
A very disappointing book. The finished flowers look very amateurish, rather clumsy. Anyone with any experience at all could make better looking more realistic flowers. Read more
Published 12 months ago by E. Allison
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