I'm making this cake for a birthday and am wondering what the best way to make these flowers is. I've got the gumpaste part of it, but is there a cutter for it, or should I just freehand it? And getting all of the little details....any tricks?

TIA,
Suz

I think I saw cutters for these on Cakes By Sam or on Sugarcraft. Aren't these called dogwood or maybe wild rose?

These are dogwood roses. It's alot easier if you get the cutter than doing if freehand. I believe there are also silicone molds for these flowers not sure if sugarcraft sells them.

Have fun.

I suppose I should have mentioned that I don't have time to order a new cutter as the cake is for this weekend. I wonder if any cutter in the Wilton gumpaste set will work or at least give me a head start that I can modify the cutout to make it look like this flower. Yikes! I am new to gumpaste (I can make roses) because it seems that no one wants to pay the extra costs for them, and would rather use real flowers even though they aren't the safest.

Hmm......any other thoughts?

Wilton has a flower cutter with 5 petals on it and it comes in a couple of different sizes. You could use that and then use a knife to separate the petals a little bit more.

Is there a Michael's or JoAnn Fabric store by you? They both carry all the Wilton stuff, and have a good selection of cutters.

Good luck..sorry I wasn't much help, but that cake looks spectacular!!
Angie

Those are beautiful flowers-especially in white. I love it! Good luck for this wknd.

I have the Wilton gumpaste kit, so hopefully I can make this work. It's a last minute cake, so that's why I can't order the cutter, although I definitely want it now! I love dogwoods- state tree of my home state of Missouri, they were everywhere growing up. LOVE THEM!

Thanks for the insight, we'll see what happens!

You can easily make you own cutter do 2 sizes for example cut out the cardboard as a template and then roll out your gumpast and use your template cut around with craft knife good luck great cake.