Sugar Rose Tutorial | How to Make a Classic Gumpaste Rose

Sugar Flower Tutorial: Classic Rose | Honey Crumb Cake Studio
The ultimate sugar flower for cake artists, and we’re here with a detailed tutorial to help you master it! We’ll show you how to make this gorgeous & timeless rose from start to finish, and how to add realistic color accents using petal dusts.
For you fellow flower nerds out there, our roses in this tutorial are based on a variety called “Peach Avalanche”.
Tools & materials needed:
* Gumpaste
* Gel colors (I used "Deep Pink", "Egg Yellow", and "Ivory" by Americolor to create the peach paste used in the tutorial)
* Cornstarch to prevent sticking
* Shortening (optional; to condition & moisturize your gumpaste while kneading it)
* Water, egg whites, or edible glue, plus a small paintbrush
* 1” styrofoam rose cone or 1" styrofoam ball
* 18 g floral wire (green) and 24 g floral wire (white)
* 5-petal rose cutter (I am using the JEM “Easy Rose Cutter”, 100mm size)
* Individual rose petal cutters or tear drop cutters in two sizes (1” wide, and 1-1/4” wide)
* Fine scissors
* Gumpaste rolling pin, foam pad, and large/medium ball tool
* CelBoard (optional)
* Dresden tool
* CelStick or mini frilling tool (or bamboo skewer!)
* Petal dusts (I used Squire’s Kitchen “Chestnut Brown”, Sunflower Sugar Art “Apple Green”, Crystal Colors “Fuchsia” & “Pumpkin”)
* Dusting brushes - one flat-edged brush, and one round/fluffy brush
* Green floral tape
Petal guide:
* Cut 6x petals with 100mm “Easy Rose Cutter” for the first two layers
* Cut 5x petals with 1” wide rose petal cutter or teardrop cutter for the next layer (I always cut 6, in case I tear one during veining, etc)
* Cut 5 more petals with 1” wide rose petal cutter or teardrop cutter for the third layer (I always cut 6, in case I tear one during veining, etc)
* Finally, cut 7 petals with 1-1/4” wide rose petal cutter or teardrop cutter for the final layer, which will be WIRED
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[@HoneyCrumb]

Wishing you all success with your sugar roses! We'll be posting an upcoming tutorial on how to make the rosebud (with calyx) as well as the rose leaves shown in this video.

[@HoneyCrumb]

Here's the rosebud and leaves video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpnbqKujatZ3ba8

[@debjudisch5548]

OMG, how beautiful! You are so talented. I absolutely LOVE roses, always have, and funny but I noticed that the original date on this video was Feb. 4th, my late daughter's birthday! We used roses the exact color you made at her funeral and I dried all of them and used them in arrangements and floral potpourri bags to give to family. We live in a fascinating world when you put times and places/pieces together! One last thing...the dislikes up there are the people who are jealous because they can't make these, or won't even try!! God bless you, my dear...

[@HoneyCrumb]

Hi Deb, thank you so much for this lovely comment. Very serendipitous indeed. I'm so very sorry about your daughter. How lovely to celebrate her with roses, and to find creative ways to preserve and share them. Flowers are so very special and meaningful, especially when they come to represent people who are even more special and meaningful to us!

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The rose 🌹 came out so, so beautiful! I can’t wait to watch as well as try your other tutorials you have! Thank you so much for sharing! 💜

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Thank you for your lovely comment! We hope you enjoy and have success with all our tutorials... and there are many more to come!

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[@HoneyCrumb]

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Very nice work! I love making fondant or gumpaste roses too and all kinds of flowers! It's my new hobby that started when the pandemic started... and I keep making them ever since...

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Oh that's wonderful! Thank you, and welcome to the channel! And I'm so glad you enjoyed the tutorial; more to come. :)

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[@HoneyCrumb]

You are very welcome! Thank you for your kind feedback; it makes my day that this tutorial is helpful to you and that you find it to be of high quality. And yes, I definitely let the flower (and wired petals) dry thoroughly before adding petal dust. I’d recommend letting everything dry overnight before adding color, but if you’re on a deadline, 3 hours should suffice. :)

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[@HoneyCrumb]

Thank you so much 😊 So glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

[@finnnielsen6901]

Thanks for your fantastic tutorials. Just love your work❣️After I found your recipe for fondant I never do any other! Do you also have a recipe for making laces or is it the same as your gum paste? Thanks again. I’m looking forward to learn more from your hand. 😊

[@HoneyCrumb]

Hi Finn, thank you so much! Are you referring to our gumpaste recipe? (We don't use fondant to make our flowers, as it's too soft to dry out properly and also doesn't pick up details from veiners very well.) Anyway, glad you are enjoying the recipe! We make lace out of a few different materials here at Honey Crumb, including SugarVeil, and Royal Icing. It depends on the design. We don't usually use gumpaste for details (like lace) that will be glued directly to the surface of a cake, as gumpaste isn't very pleasant to eat once it has dried hard! It's better to use softer things for exterior decorations.

[@finnnielsen6901]

Hi again, I know you’re making your beautiful roses out of gum paste. I just thought you had a recipe for laces to put around a wedding cake for example? Your fondant and gum paste recipes are much better than the ones you can buy❣️Thanks.

[@HoneyCrumb]

@@finnnielsen6901 Hi Finn, just to clarify -- we don't actually have any recipes for fondant on our blog or anywhere else. The only recipe we've published is a gumpaste recipe. We usually buy our fondant commercially, rather than making it here in our studio. (It would be ridiculous to make it ourselves, given the quantities we use each week!) Now I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "laces". Are you talking about LACE? Like, edible fabric details? Or are you talking about LACES, like shoelaces, or ribbons to lace up a corset? As I mentioned in my previous comment, we don't use gumpaste for things like lace. We use SugarVeil, or we pipe the lace by hand using Royal Icing and a narrow piping tip (like a Wilton 1). You can buy SugarVeil online (and you can find lots of tutorials on how to use it via the SugarVeil website), and you can find lots of easy recipes for Royal Icing on the internet, including on our blog: honeycrumb.com/blog/2021/2/2/cookie-decorating-recipes. But you need to have good piping skills to create hand-piped lace out of Royal Icing! SugarVeil is much faster and easier.

[@nabilafoughalia6943]

Hi,thanks so much for this incredible work,I hope you can do some flowers which are easy to make,thank you again

[@HoneyCrumb]

That's so kind of you! Thanks so much. And that's a great suggestion; noted!

[@nabilafoughalia6943]

@@HoneyCrumb thanks alot

[@jkelly655]

Incredibly realistic!! Thank you so much for sharing. I had a go with sugar paste roses a few years ago but ended up down the buttercream road and would like to try them again. I have some of the basic tools, are there any you would recommend just for a beginner? I don’t want to buy every tool in case I don’t continue with this art form. Thanks :)

[@HoneyCrumb]

You are so welcome! Thanks for your kind feedback. To me, sugar flowers will always beat buttercream flowers, every time! So much more realistic and so much more potential with this medium. I have a KZbin video specifically geared towards sugar flower equipment for beginners, you can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-up558hap-nc0.

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[@HoneyCrumb]

Thank you! You can find full instructions for the rose leaves here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpnbqKujatZ3ba8

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Thank you so much!

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Que c'est jolie !!! Merci pour ce tuto c'est magnifique !!! La reproduction d'une vrai rose ressemblante a celle du createur semble facile. Mais c'est loin d'être le cas quand on s'y colle. Bravo et bonne journée ❤😅

[@HoneyCrumb]

Merci beaucoup pour les gentils compliments!

[@crisckaparanawithana9240]

So beautiful! You explain very well,how do you store the sugar flowers for months

[@HoneyCrumb]

So nice of you, thank you! We store our flowers in large, lidded plastic bins lined with compostable packing peanuts, and a couple of packets of silica gel tucked inside to absorb any excess moisture. They last for years like this. You can see an example of how we store them around the 4 : 50 mark in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHqpfn5miNaBndU

[@mariamedeiros409]

Beautiful work! Your gumpaste looks so easy to work with I wonder what kind do you use and if you have the recipe.thank you.

[@HoneyCrumb]

Thanks! I make my own gumpaste; the link is in the description box below the video and I'll paste it in here for you as well: honeycrumb.com/blog/2021/1/2/sugar-flower-tips-make-your-own-gumpaste-and-edible-glue

[@marieedwards7650]

Thank you so much for the great tutorial ❤ can I ask what the dabber thing you used with cornstarch in is called please? Not seen them before

[@HoneyCrumb]

Hi! In the video (e.g. 1:40) I'm just using a fluffy brush, dipped into a container of cornstarch. It isn't any special kind of dabber. :)

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Cheers and thank you for watching!

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Thanks so much!