Tutorial: The way I made my Waratah (Telopea speciosissima)

A quick picture tutorial on how I made my Waratah for my Hubby’s 40th birthday cake . Hope it will be of help to some people. Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask :-)

The materials used……………….

Gumpaste + Red colour paste
Rolling pin, and Board
Ball and Dresden Tool
Water and paint brush
Crisco or Copha to roll out paste
Flower wire (I used #26 inner tips and #30 for the outside petals )
Burgundy petal dust for the inner central tips and apple green petal dust for the outer petal tips
Lily cutter or you can print out the shape and cut it out on cardboard and use it as a template.
Corn starch to roll out the little circles using the ball tool
Thick and Thin sponge
Toothpick
Pliers to cut the wire
Polystyrene Balls ( next time I do this flower I would cover the ball with red gumpaste before doing the rest or alternatively just use a red ball of gumpaste ( but would be heavier))

Sasi, Sydney Australia, http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/, https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi

17 Comments

Looks like I will be making flowers this week! Love this. Thank you so much for sharing!

Lol. Thank you and You are most welcome Goreti. I am sure yours would turn out really great

Sasi, Sydney Australia, http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/, https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi

wow, love this flower! thank you so much for the tutorial!

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Thank you and you are most welcome Dina, Sugardiver62, and Sofia

Sasi, Sydney Australia, http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/, https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi

Thank you so much Elli for your kind words and you are welcome and hope it will be useful

Sasi, Sydney Australia, http://cakesbyssn.blogspot.com.au/, https://www.facebook.com/CakesbySasi

Sasi you’re a genius thank you so much for sharing

Jo, NZ, https://www.facebook.com/CiccioCakes

The talent on this site truly amazes me. I can only hope to ever be half as good as all of you!

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