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Twenty To Make Sugar Flowers
Twenty To Make Series
Lisa Slatter

Search Press
release / ISBN 9781844486250
6 January 2011 (1 May 2011 in USA)
How-To Books/Sugarcraft
Amazon US || UK

Reviewed by Rachel A Hyde

My first sugarcraft project was making a rose out of fondant icing, and this craft does lend itself to the fashioning of floral items. Here is a whole book of different flowers and arrangements to create out of sugar to decorate cakes, tables and more.

There is a recipe for royal icing in here, short and sweet (pardon the pun) but you will need to look elsewhere for recipes for other types of frosting such as gum paste. You can buy them ready made of course, and this book gets instantly down the business of telling you exactly what you need to make the projects, and then there are the projects themselves. There are twenty of these of course, each one taking up two pages. There are written instructions and a picture of the finished item attractively presented to inspire you. Best of all in my opinion is a helpful page showing what the component parts look like before assembly, which takes much of the mystery out of creating these beautiful flowers. On the same page is a small inset photograph of a completed item, but not actually presented in as full a way as in the main picture. I find this staged approach very helpful, and it is surprising how little space you need to lay out a project in this manner. Choose from the inevitable roses, simple daisies, glorious bright gerbera, cheerful daffodils, elegant orchids, buds, leaves and even a butterfly to enhance your work. Substitute the frostings for polymer clay and you extend the use of the book…one for the keeper shelf that shows how easy it really is to make very professional looking sugar flowers.

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