A Guide to Making Sugar Flowers

A Guide to Making Sugar Flowers
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SK Edible Glue
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Quality products
SK Great Impressions
Leaf and Petal Veiners
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SK Confectioners’
Glaze
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SQUIRES KITCHEN
SK Professional
Food Colours
SK Sugar Florist Paste
(SFP)
The Art of Sugarcraft
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Squires Kitchen has been creating, manufacturing and selling products for cake decorating and sugarcraft for almost 30 years. From the very beginning,
SK’s product development team has been passionate about creating high-quality edibles for sugar flower enthusiasts that will give only the best results.
Squires Kitchen offers a range of products for making beautiful and realistic sugar flowers, including Sugar Florist Paste (SFP), Great Impressions Veiners
and a wide range of Professional Food colours. Used by some of the world’s best-known sugar artists and sold all over the globe, Squires Kitchen’s
products meet the needs of hobbyists and professional sugarcrafters alike.
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A Guide to Making Sugar Flowers from Squires Kitchen – the professionals’ choice for high-quality, specialist sugarcraft products
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Great Impressions Leaf
and Petal Veiners
With Squires Kitchen Great
Sugar Florist Paste (SFP)
Impressions Leaf and Petal
Veiners it’s easy to create
Squires Kitchen’s Sugar Florist Paste (SFP) has been formulated specifically for
realistic flowers and foliage for
crafting delicate sugar flowers and leaves. Made in the UK with carefully balanced
cakes and competition displays.
ingredients, Sugar Florist Paste is pliable, can be rolled paper-thin without breaking
and gives a perfectly smooth finish. Here’s why you’ll find packets of SFP in the
sugarcraft kits of the world’s leading cake designers:
Professional Food Colours
SK Professional Paste, Liquid and Dust Food Colours
have been created especially for sugarcrafters and
cake decorators and are fully-intermixable to create
the exact shade you require for the most realistic sugar
flowers and leaves. These colours are gluten-free, as
well as glycerine-free, which makes them all suitable
when complete drying is essential.
• Smoother... made with triple-refined cane
sugar for the smoothest possible finish.
• 30 beautiful hues that are named after popular
flowers and leaves and cover the entire floral
• Finer... the perfect blend of ingredients for
paper-thin, petal-like results.
• Purer… 100% freeze/thaw stable, glutenfree and suitable for vegetarians.
• SFP is available in white and 20 floralinspired colours – all fully intermixable.
spectrum.
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Specially selected for the professional sugar florist’s
colour palette.
• Available in Paste, Dust and Liquid forms for all your
cake decorating requirements.
• All SK colours are guaranteed edible and conform to
EU directives for use in foodstuff.
“Catching the edges of flowers or leaves with a
slightly darker [dust] colour than the paste is a
• T he Great Impressions range includes over 100
petal and 300 leaf veiners.
nsurpassable for quality and attention to detail, and
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are botanically correct.
ompatible with a wide variety of mediums including
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SFP, sugarpaste, marzipan and modelling chocolate
(Cocoform).
esigned and made in the UK by Squires Kitchen’s
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master craftsmen from durable, platinum-grade
silicone which has been approved for food use.
“SK Great Impressions Veiners... are extremely
particularly effective way of enhancing the colour.”
useful for adding realism to flower work.”
From Sugar Flowers for Beginners by Paddi Clark
From Flowers and Foliage for Wedding Cakes by Alan Dunn
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Confectioners’ Glaze
A varnish suitable for use
whenever a high gloss is
required or as a protective
coating for sugar.
The Art of Sugarcraft
• E ssential when making
Whether you’re a keen cake maker, a budding baker or a sugarcraft hobbyist, this is the
leaves and petals with a shiny
ultimate book of techniques from 20 top tutors. Discover everything from basic recipes
surface: simply brush or dip
to masterclasses in sugarcraft in the most comprehensive guide to cake decorating ever
the finished piece to coat.
published.
an be used full-strength for
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• The long-awaited cake decorator’s companion from the prestigious Squires Kitchen
a high shine, or diluted with
International School.
SK Glaze Cleaner for a more
• A definitive collection of sugarcraft, cake decorating, baking and chocolate
subtle effect.
techniques for all abilities.
• S eals colour for a lasting finish.
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Features over 40 illustrated projects presented by 20 popular, internationallyrenowned tutors.
• Includes sugar flower tutorials at foundation, extended and masterclass levels by
flower experts Alan Dunn, Paddi Clark, Naomi Yamamoto, Susanna Righetto and
Edible Glue
Claire Fitzsimons.
Suitable for all sugarcraft purposes, this easy-to-use glue is particularly
useful in sugar flower making and also works well with pastry pieces. It is
strong enough to hold heavier items, simply support with
crumpled kitchen paper or sponge pieces until the glue
is dry.
• Ideal for gluing petals, stamens and leaves.
• Completely edible and suitable for use on sugar
models and other decorations.
• A staple for any sugarcrafter’s kit.
A Guide to Making Sugar Flowers from Squires Kitchen – the professionals’ choice for high-quality, specialist sugarcraft products
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Simple Wired Leaves
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by Claire Fitzsimons
Edibles
SK Sugar Florist Paste (SFP): Pale Green
White vegetable fat
SK Edible Glue
SK Professional Dust Food Colour: Leaf Green
Equipment
26-gauge floral wire: white or green
Wire cutters
Non-stick board with grooves
Small rolling pin
Rose leaf cutter
Bone tool
Food-grade foam pad
SK Great Impressions Rose Leaf Veiner
Floral tape: Nile green
1 Cut a 26-gauge wire into thirds. Roll out some
Pale Green SFP very thinly onto a greased,
grooved board, twice as wedible glue, wipe off
the excess and place the wire into the centre of
the groove. Use the leaf cutter as a size guide.
The wire needs to take up ¾ of the length of
the leaf. Fold the top of the paste down over
the wire and roll to press both sides of the
paste together. Cut out the leaf. To get a clean
cut, hold the cutter down firmly, whilst pulling the
excess paste away with the other hand.
3 Dust with Leaf Green dust food colour and then
steam the leaves to set the colour and give a
natural shine.
2 Soften the edges with a bone tool on a foam
pad then place the leaf into the double-sided
rose leaf veiner. Use a ball tool to soften the
edges to give some movement to the leaf.
Leave to dry.
4 Tape the wire with ½-width Nile green floral tape.
Taken from The Art of Sugarcraft by Squires Kitchen
International Tutors, £50 (B. Dutton Publishing).
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A Guide to Making Sugar Flowers from Squires Kitchen – the professionals’ choice for high-quality, specialist sugarcraft products