Sugar Flowers Book With Directions For Tulips, Lilacs?
Decorating By salsera Updated 24 Jul 2006 , 6:00am by cakesbykitty
Hi! Newbie here. 
I just finished a class in sugar flowers and would like to attempt my sister's bridal shower cake. She loves tulips and lilacs, but on searching the internet, I haven't seen a book that includes directions for them. Can anyone tell me of a book with these directions? THANKS!!![/list]
Go to amazon and look for Nicholas Lodge or they have is stuff on sugarcraft.com
Are you wanting to do gumpaste flowers or piped flowers? I've heard people refer to both as sugar flowers. Anyway, if you're wanting to pipe them, I have directions for both in buttercream/royal icing. Let us know what you're looking for and I'm sure if I can't help you, someone else here will gladly help.
Gumpaste directions are what I was looking for. I've searched through the books on amazon (inlcuding Nick Lodge books). They often allow you to search the book's Index or Table of Contents and I still haven't been able to find tulip and lilac directions.
Oh, I'm so silly! I know how to make tulips out of gumpaste. In fact, I posted the directions a little while back for someone else. I was too tired to think the other night, so sorry. Anyway, here is the link to the directions for the tulips.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-23981-gumpaste.html+tulip
For the lilacs, all you have to do is make a bunch of small four petaled blossoms and either place them on a mound of icing on the cake or wire them together. I'll see if I can find some actual directions for you...
OK. Here's a little more guidance for the gumpaste lilacs. Since you just finished a class, I'm assuming you probably have a five-petal cutter. If you have a four-petal cutter, use that; but if you don't, I would use a small five-petal cutter to make the four-petal lilacs. The link below shows how to make a four-petaled hydrangea blossom from a five-petal cutter. Do the same thing, but treat the petals differently. I would roll over each petal with either a ridged toothpick, a wooden skewer, or a silk veining tool to thin and vein at the same time. Then, I would lightly cup each petal with a small ball tool on thick foam or your finger. Wire each flower as shown in the link, and then wire the individual flowers together in the shape of a lilac cluster...or, make the flowers as above and leave the wire out and simply attach each blossom to the cake with icing in the appropriate shape.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-26757-hydrangea.html
Isaiah's birthday cake in my photos has buttercream lilacs on it, but if you need a visual for how to place them on the cake without the wires, it might be useful.
check out the book cakes by design by scott woolley. i want this one for reference too! here's a link to amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1585673331/?tag=cakecentral-20
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