How to Arrange Sugar Flowers on Cakes | Sugar Flowers

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When arranging sugar flowers on a cake, I like to have all of my sugar
flowers right nearby. The other tool that I make sure I have is a pair of
wire cutters in case I need to snip any of the wires before I put them into
the cake. I usually like starting with my biggest flower first. I figure
out where on my cake I want to place it. In this case, I'm going to start
with a sugar Casablanca lily. I like when I have my lilies spilling over
the edge of the cake, so I'm going to insert it so that the pedals come
over the side of the cake.

Now I need to arrange all the rest of my flowers around it. I'm going to
start again with the bigger flower, so my next are my daffodils or my
tulips. I always like when there are flowers that are presented in groups
of threes. So I might put three daffodils next to one another as I put them
on a cake. And I'm going to use it to fill in all of the little holes and
the gaps in between my flowers so that I don't see the part where it
pierces the cake. On the other side I'll try to arrange my tulips, putting
those in, again in a group of three.

And I like when sugar flowers point in different directions around my cake.
This way when I view it from any angle, I can see all of the different
flowers. We have a little bit of flexibility, remember when we were
creating these flowers because a lot of these petals are individually
wired, so we do have the flexibility to be able to move some of the pieces
around as we need it.

Now that all of the big flowers are into our cake, it's time to look and
fill in all of the little gaps. I'm going to turn the cake towards me and
look where there might be little pieces that I need to fill in. Cherry
blossoms and leaves and little daisies make for great fillers as you work
around. I'm going to try to create some kind of a half-moon shape with my
flowers because I want to be able to pipe around my piece. So as I'm
grabbing my cherry blossoms, I'll bend the wire that they're on, so as they
come around the cake they can fill in some of the gaps and some of that
open spaces around the cake.

I'll put in one more spray of cherry blossoms, and now I want to add my
foliage. So I use my sprays of leaves to fill in all of the remaining gaps
and create some flowing movement down the side of my cake as I push them
in. And I make sure to push them as far in as they can to fill in all of
the gaps, but allow them to spill. I'm just bending the wires before I put
them in so that they'll tuck over the edge of the cake and have a lot of
movement to them.

I can put in as many as I want. Sometimes I like to have some that are
pointing straight up so that they can add a little bit of extra height to
the cake as well.

And my little daisies, I'll add just a couple of daisies just to come out
at different points, just tucked in between some of the flowers. And now,
as I mentioned before, I like to leave a little bit of space onto my cake,
and that will allow me a little bit of room to pipe. I'm going to pipe, in
this case, let's pipe a little Happy Birthday.

Now I have my finished cake.