Sugar Roses

Although I've had lots of practice making polymer clay roses, I've never made roses out of sugar before... Theses are my efforts towards making some decorations for our wedding cake. It was harder than I thought, because the gum paste tends to dry out quickly in the air and you have to work fast or keep your work under cling film.



I was trying to make something like the ballet-pink spray roses that used to grow in my childhood garden. I loved these tiny roses, they were thornless and abundant, growing wild and unchecked beside the pear trees. My Mum is the real expert at crafting roses. I'm lucky, I'll have her (and my whole family) with me in a few month's time!