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How to Make edible sugar orchids for cake decorating

Oct 5, 2010 07:25 PM

Hands handling dough with a pastry brush on a black surface.

Love orchids? Then you'll love them even more when they're made of sugar and topping your next baked creation. Sugar orchids sound difficult to put together, but really they require nothing more than a little patience and sugarpaste. To learn how to make them, check out this cake decorating tutorial.

Top cake decorator Elaine MacGregor shows the viewer how to make lifelike edible floral decorations using simple sugarpaste techniques. This video shows how to make a lifelike brightly coloured orchid from sugarpaste.

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