Sugar Flowers

As an expression of gratitude, this sugar flower was presented to a very hospitable couple who enjoyed flowers — their favorite, the gardenia. This flower is typically very aromatic, but in sugar form, its fragrance is non-existent. So this was placed in a shallow glass dish filled with wax that gave off the gardenia scent. Mounted on pins and with a lady bug to add a little life. Transforming sugar into happiness for everlasting treasuring. (8/2010)

Wired sugar poppies and leafs together with sugar lady bugs made this display really sweet. All were suspended on wire for display in a wooden shadow box that is 4 inches in depth. Designed to be hung on a wall surface. 4/2011

Our sugar flowers make a lasting impression

Flowers are among the most wondrous things around us. They grace our tables, our yards, even our offices. From the islands to the mountains to the deserts and on every continent there are flowers.

One young man approached me and asked how to get a girl interested in him. I told him he could start by giving her flowers. And if he really wanted to impress the young lady, I told him to learn how to make sugar flowers. When done right, sugar flowers come pretty close to replicating real flowers, in all their beauty and delicateness. But unlike real flowers, sugar flowers can last for years.

There are many good books on how to make sugar flowers, as well as classes you can take. Tools and the proper methodology are important, and a lot of this has to do with ones’ creative ability. Here at Is It Really Cake?, we continue learning and experimenting to develop our talent and knowledge of sugar craft.

Sugar creations are often very fragile, but they can be visually stunning. Many of our sugar flowers inspire disbelief, as do our all-sugar vases, but rest assured, they really are all sugar! So allow our slide presentation above let you stroll through our delightful, ever increasing garden of sugar flowers. Enjoy.

More sugar flowers

The Stargazer Lily. A sugar flower displayed in a glass bud vase.

A display of wired sugar Alstroemeria flowers in a sugar vase. Delicate yet pretty. 9/2011

Sugar flowers are always a delight; very delicate, but they can last forever if carefully cared for. These sugar red poppies were ordered for an anniversary. To help protect their fragile nature, they were mounted in a deep shadow box; the wire you see is this supporting apparatus. Even the sugar dragon fly likes his home on one of these flowers. (8/2010)

This deep shadow box was ideal, as it doubled as a showcase to display the sugar poppies and as a protectant of these delicate flowers. (8/2010)

Used as a gift. A sugar vase with one white sugar poppy and two sugar leaves.

A beautiful boutique of sugar daises, made for the anniversary of a couple who wanted an enduring statement of their love. Sugar flowers are best kept out of direct sun, because the colors will bleach out otherwise, and also best kept away from moisture, for obvious reasons (sugar — duh), and from dust, because of their fragility. (7/2010)

Amy's sugar flowers on her cake 7-13-2013