For a recent wedding cake I had to create a number of sugar flowers outside of my usual repertoire. This gerbera daisy was one of them and of course, I filmed the process to create this gerbera daisy sugar flower tutorial for you!
On the whole, I’m not a big gerbera daisy fan. But I really enjoyed the process of figuring out how to make them. By chance I actually had a gerbera cutter set that I bought years ago so I already had all of the tools. So I dug out the cutter set and set about developing the flower!
The Cutters
The set that I have used is by Patchwork Cutters and has lots of cutters as part of it. I didn’t use them all so I have detailed below the ones that you need in order to follow my YouTube tutorial. I created my gerbera daisy in red to fit my wedding cake brief. You could of course experiment with any colour you like though!
Tools
A full list of the tools that I have used along with links to buy them can be found below:
Gerbera Cutters – https://amzn.to/41Wuq9y
Daisy centre stamps – https://amzn.to/3Mfitpq
Metal ball tool – https://amzn.to/3MiPH7g
Celpad / Flower pad – https://amzn.to/3R0DQv4
Dresden tool – https://amzn.to/3S2z6Xj
Small rolling pin – https://tidd.ly/3RlryxE
Pliers and wire cutters – https://amzn.to/3JozvBi
Paintbrushes – https://ebay.us/cqCn1V
Small knife
Klippit – https://amzn.to/3OuM6pk
Steamer – https://amzn.to/3reGliU
Materials
Flower Paste / Gumpaste – I always use homemade and you can find my recipe here
Gel colours
White vegetable fat
Egg white
Cornflour
Yellow pollen (fine semolina mixed with yellow petal dust)
Petal dusts – red, green, yellow, black, burgundy
22 gauge wire – https://amzn.to/3obkWJt
18 gauge wire – https://amzn.to/45fLSsu
Green floral tape – https://tidd.ly/41YsaQ4
Gardener’s tie https://amzn.to/3OmzBMM
Forming the Centre
For the centre of the gerbera daisy, I have used the largest stamp from the Jem daisy centre stamps.
Below are the various cutters I have used to form the centre from the Patchwork Cutters Set. I have used the texturing stamp for the centre. I then used the Size 1 cutter for the first 2 layers and the Size 2 Cutter for the second 2 layers of petals.
Outer Petals & Calyx
Finally for the outer petals and calyx, I used the large petal cutter and calyx cutter as shown below.
Gerbera Daisy Sugar Flower Tutorial
I have created a full step-by-step video tutorial for this Gerbera Daisy on my YouTube channel which you can find below! If you have any questions, just let me know and I will be happy to help. Hope you love the tutorial!
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