Ok, Im making a wedding cake based on a picture the bride gave me, its a 4 tier white square cake with scroll work, and has bunches of hydrangeas on it. Ive started to make the hydrangeas one by one.....by one....but heres my question, when im done making the 300+ hydrangeas any specific way to make the bushes? or should i just use floral tape to tape the wire stems? Thanks....!

Are you doing gumpaste hydrangeas? Every tutorial that I've seen for that shows how to make a bajillion of the individual 4-petal flowers and then those are wired together to make a the bunch for a big hydrangea ball.

I've done hydrangeas in BC using a big 2D tip and a bag double loaded w/color.

Here's one of the cakes in my gallery:
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1764166

I just did a tiered baby shower cake w/hydrangeas. It's not in my gallery yet--I'll try to attach it.

OK--attachments still not working. I'll get up in my gallery & then post the link.

KJ

EDIT: Here's the link:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1781037.html

kj

Those are gorgeous! What do you think abt using silk hydrangeas? The hydrangeas in the cake the bride showed me are placed around the base of the cake...and they look so real, i cant get mine to look like that. I asked my florist and she said they would wilt if i used real ones, and the tips may be poisinous, im considering buying silk ones.....?

I watched Nic Lodge do these a few years ago in a demo. I basicly taped 3 or 4 flowers/buds together into bunches. Then too those bunches and taped them together to get the bigger blossom affect.

I have to make 5 bunches of hydrangeas i think im going with silk flowers they look so much more real. Anybody use silk in their wedding cakes?

I think if the bride is OK with it, silk would be fine.

Real hydrangeas are pretty delicate as cut flowers. I had some in centerpiece arrangements a few months ago and they were the first flowers to fade--very quickly in some cases.

Kristy

You could probably buy pre-made gumpaste flowers, too, and save a ton of time.

I am so glad I saw this. I had the same question for a wedding cake coming up. I had been debating on making them and then the bride decided that she was using some fake ones in her decor, so she wanted to use the same on the cake. I was relieved. The fake ones can look very 'real'.