Modern Sugar Flowers: Contemporary cake decorating with elegant gumpaste flowers

Learn the secrets of sugar floristry with Petalsweet Cakes founder Jacqueline Butler, who has built a huge international following for her incredible sugar flowers. In her exquisite and long-awaited debut book, you’ll learn in step-by-step detail how to create modern and sophisticated, stylized sugar flowers and how to use them to create beautiful flower arrangements on wedding and celebration cakes. Inside you’ll find instructions and step-by-step photographs for stunning sugar flowers in various stages of bloom, as well as flower buds and leaves, using a clean and contemporary color palette. Through six diverse projects you’ll then learn how to use these foundation flowers in combination with filler flowers to create elegant cake designs, including working directly on single-tier cakes and multi-tiered cakes, as well as making styrofoam cake toppers. AUTHOR: Jacqueline Butler is a wedding cake designer and sugar artist based in San Diego, California, under the business name Petalsweet Cakes. She teaches sugar flowers internationally, including the USA, Australia, Europe and Asia. She was the first cake instructor on Craftsy.com. She’s know for her sophisticated flowers in soft pastel shades, modern flower arrangements and the ability to break down the process into achievable steps, leading to beautiful results. SELLING POINTS: . Jacqueline Butler has an international following of over 270,000 engaged fans–her work is of the highest quality and the most desirable style. . Features expert step-by-step instruction on how to create and style modern, sophisticated sugar flowers with stunning photography.