I love the elegance cherry blossoms, and after many requests, I am so happy to demonstrate a beautiful Cherry Blossom Cake design! Cherry Blossom themes continue to be a popular theme for wedding cakes, but these techniques could be applied to any cake that calls for something special. Our cherry blossoms with their sugar pearl centers are extremely easy to create, and make for a gorgeous design when applied to delicately piped branches.
I hope that you enjoy the tutorial!
**We also have a tutorial for a Cherry Blossom Cake Design in Buttercream! Find the link below!
Supplies/Materials Used~
Cake Tiers- I am using 10″/8″/6″ tiers which have been covered in Satin Ice fondant.
Cake Boards beneath each tier & preferred support method (dowels, plastic hollow dowels, support system, etc…)
Gum Paste- I used gum paste for my flowers, however you could also use fondant, (especially for the smaller ones). For the larger
flowers, if not using gum paste, I would use fondant with tylose kneaded into it.
Cutters- 5 petal blossom cutters. I used a total of 5 different cutters, but 1 or 2 would be fine also. Here are links to the Small & Larger cutters.
Cel Pad- Some sort of cel pad or foam pad for thinning your petals.
Ball Tool- For thinning/frilling petals
Preferred mold/palette/former for drying flowers (I used wells from my artist palette & chocolate molds)
Royal Icing- I used for the branches & for the tiny blossom centers. (Medium consistency). I also used royal to glue the flowers to the cake.
If your cake is frosted in buttercream, your branches should be piped in buttercream or they should be fondant (but not royal).
Tips- Wilton tip 4 (or similar size) for the branches
Silicone Bead Former- (Optional) – Used for border. You could also just pipe a royal icing border for fondant covered cakes or a buttercream
border for buttercream cakes.
Dusts- I used a mixture of Watermelon Petal Dust & White Petal Dust for the flower centers. I used Pearl dust for the pearls. I used a little
White Disco Dust on the blossoms.
Wilton Sugar Beads- Used for the centers of the flowers. You could also pipe royal icing dots instead.
Misc: Small paint brushes, tylose/sugar glue (¼ tsp. tylose combined with 2 T warm water)
Interested in a buttercream Cherry Blossom Cake tutorial? We have one just for you! Hop on over to see! Buttercream Cherry Blossom Cake Tutorial
Hi Melissa. iPad won’t let me see it!!!
Hey Jackie–You are too fast for us ;0) –It should be up and running for ipads now!
I could say the same about you – well done!!!!
I love this cake, Melissa. It’s beautiful!!
can’t wait to view this! Beautiful!
Sooooo Beautiful, not nearly as scary as I thought it would be. Your an AWESOME Teacher Melissa.
Thanks so much “Cakes on The Lane” & “Sugar Mama”!! ;0) Yes, not so scary at all!
Hi Melissa, Your Apple Blossom Cake is sooo beautiful, you make it look so easy, I’m going to try this for my daughters birthday:) Love this web site! I’m learning so much.
Just beautiful, one of my favourite cakes :)
Love it!! So pretty! I can’t wait to try this out!
Melissa, what is your “glue”?
Hi Stephanie72, Melissa used royal icing to attach the flowers.
Melissa this is so beautiful. Going to try making this but in a three layer cake not tier for my church cake walk this weekend. (Good time to practice ;)
I have the wilton bead former but it only presses half side of the beads so flat side will go against cake but I love the way your beads look. Love your bead former, thats on my wish list! The cake looks so Beautiful and Elegant.
Just have to say the timing of this video is perfect! I like in South Korea and just went up to Seoul last Friday to see the Cherry Blossoms. They only bloom for about 2 weeks each year. It is the most amazing and beautiful thing. The streets are lined with hundreds of white blooming trees. If you ever get a chance to see them in person in Washington DC or even Japan or Korea, you have to do it!! What a beautiful cake as well. I will add it to my list of ones to try!
Hi Melissa. I am a new member of your site and I just Love It!!! Your teaching methods are just great, you go step by step and explain & show how you make things very well! I just wanted to say Thank You and keep up the good work! This cake is Just Beautful! Can’t wait to try this! May I ask what (brand) mold beads do you use? Thanks Again!
Melissa, this cake is just beautiful. I’m going to have to try it soon. Thanx again to you and Bebe for the great video! Please know that you are both very appreciated. <3
Wow, it’s really very pretty and elegant cake I can’t wait to try it, as usual you make things looks easy to do.
Thank you so much for your comments! @Stephanie72-as Mom said, royal was our glue for attaching blossoms…but the container in the video labeled “glue” is the tylose (aka sugar) glue that we often use with gum paste & fondant. (1/4 tsp tylose with 2 T warm water).
Hi Dena, here is a link to sugarcraft.com for the bead former
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/gumpaste/beads.htm
we used the 8mm bead former in the video
Thanks, the container marked “glue” is what I was referring to. :-)
This cake is just gorgeous!!!
Hi Melissa,
Beautiful work….as always….
What do you do with all your cakes?..
Hi Melissa! Love it! Hope I get to eat it too!! definitely on my to do list, even if there is no occasion I have to do it!
Amazing job! I always wanted to see how to arrange flowers on a cake and now I can do it.
Thanks to both of you!!
Next time can you do a cake on hoe to arrange a buch of different flowers please!!
Great Job Melissa. I really love this tutorial! Thanks so much!
Yes, Sadia, that would be a good idea.
Absolutely B*E*A*U*T*I*F*U*L!! I can’t wait to try and make this cake : )
Great tutorial. You make it all look so easy:)
This cake is so beautiful and very elegant. Will love to try it one day.
Absolutely gorgeous Melissa!!! I think it looks so delicate and beautiful! Can’t wait to try it! ( :
Mary
Melissa I love this cake! I was just looking at the different cake styles as my daughter wanted a cherry blossom cake for her 33rd birthday and what do I see on FaceBook but you making a Cherry Blossom Cake video! Now I know how to make the cherry blossoms and how to attach them. Yay!!! I always get great compliments from the cakes I make using your videos and blogs! Thanks so much!!
Melissa what would be the best way to transport this cake to an event, without having an accident?
Oooooooooo!! Melissa I love this cake! Love It, Love It!! May I ask how many layers per tier?
so cute like always
The cake is so beautiful. What I would really love to have is that kitchen!!! With the lights on…it is to die for :)
Hi Melissa, I will be doing a similar cake for my daughters wedding. Since we are also having cupcakes and it will be a small wedding 50 people I am just doing 2 tiers. I am also putting 2 lovebirds cut from fondant on the front side of the top tier. I have a few questions to ask your opinion ..He colors are black and white with some red. I am thinking on doing the branches black , now if it were you would you do blossoms red with black lovebirds? And if I do red blossoms should I use red dust for the middle of flowers? And the cake top is white ceramic doves and since the cake will be white fondant would you bring the branches around the back of them? ot maybe just put blossoms around them? I am trying to picture this in my head and don’t want to make a mistake.
Hi Sheila–I’m attaching a link that I found to a cake with the colors that you are using (by Pink Cake Box bakery)–I think it looks really nice with the black branches and red blossoms.
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/double-happiness-wedding-cake-2008-02-19.htm
I think that you would be fine to carry the branches just barely onto the top of the cake, similar to the cake linked above—and as you mentioned, you could carry a few blossoms behind the birds. I think as long as you keep it simple on top (so that your eye is drawn more to the ceramic birds than to the blossoms and branches) it will be beautiful.–
I wouldn’t dust the centers–I would just add little sugar pearls or dots of royal icing similar to what I did on my cake (and also similar to the cake linked above)–
For the fondant cut-outs of lovebirds– I think that the cherry blossoms and black, white, & red color scheme is so striking all on it’s own…I don’t feel like you need them….but if you keep them nice and small, it may tie in nicely with your topper. However, I think that putting them front & center on the top tier may compete too much with the topper. I would put them in the bottom left or right corner of the bottom tier (I tend to favor the right for some reason) :0) — I think either black or white on white cut outs would be fine but I would combine with a little tylose so that you can roll them very thin. The birds are something that you could cut out in both black and white and then choose at the last minute which you like the best (or if they add to the design or take away)–
I think it is really special that you are going to make your daughter’s wedding cake! I know it will be beautiful.
So beautiful and sweet. I have to say with every video I watch I become more and more confident. Your teaching style really puts one at ease. You are so calm! I don’t even like anyone in the room when I’m decorating a cake. Let alone someone video taping me. I think I’d crack LOL. Thank you so much.
That’s an awesome cake
Thanks again for your comments!! I really appreciate the feedback! ;0)
Anniejoe, I’m so glad that you are becoming more confident with your decorating! As for me decorating the cakes on video, that took some time for me to get used to! It helps though when your mom is the one behind the camera ;0)
i luv your cakes!;0
Thanks! :0)
Melissa,
How many cake layers you made per tier for this Cherry Blossom Cake?
Thanks
Am I asking my qustions in the wrong place?
Hi- Thanks for checking back and sorry about that! Each tier was 2 fat cake layers to give us tiers approx 4″ in height….(but of course three thinner layers would work too).
Thanks
Hi Melissa,
I enjoyed this cherry blossom cake tutorial. Thank you so much! :D
This is so beautiful….Thanks !!!!
Gorgeous !!!
Thank you!!
so pretty ood job thanks ,just if it possible to get a patern for the branche ,and where to put exactly the flowers
Plz tell me any one line store from where i can buy ,cel borad ,silicone bead former .a ball tool and luster dust ? Plz help me
Hi Madiha, on the homepage just above Melissa’s picture you will see Member Resources, choose the page, Supplies. There you will see links to the items you are looking, except the bead former. I think they were all bought at http://www.globalsugarart.com
The bead former can be found with this link, http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/gumpaste/beads.htm We most often use the 8mm bead former.
Let us know if you need more help
Oh how I love this cake!!!
I finally made it :) You can see it on my page at the following link, https://www.facebook.com/SweetiePopsShop?ref=hl
Thank you ever so much for sharing your talents and idea’s, I so enjoy your website and everything you have to offer :)
Barb, it LOVE how it turned out– you did such a beautiful job! Thanks so much for sharing it!
How long in advance can I make the cherry blossoms and fondant branches ?
Hi Kristina, you can make the flowers weeks in advance if you would like to work ahead. Just keep them out of sunlight and fluorescent lighting to prevent fading. The branches in this video were piped on. If you are applying fondant branches, you can apply while the fondant is still soft unless you’d prefer that they extend out from the cake.
Wow my friend and I just watched this tutorial we were blown away.
although I don’t think I was as much as my friend as she just asked me to make it as her wedding cake .
Thank you for just fantastic clips .
Looking forward to the next one
Thank you, Rachael!! I’m so excited to hear that you are making this for her wedding cake. I know it will be beautiful! xo
Hi melissa i have a question in hobby lobby store i found ty-tex gum is this same as tylose ,can i use in the fondant to make the fondant flowers instead of gumpaste.
Hi Vasanta, Melissa and I have not used this product. I did find one post on Cake Central, here is the link http://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/783110/ty-tex-gum-powder-at-craft-store It sounds as though it could work, through she had only used it on letters and a bow. I’m sorry I couldn’t be more helpful. Let us know if you give it a try. You might want to post the question in the Forum to see if any of the Cake School members have used it.
Wow!!! That’s really something
How big do you need the cutters to be???
And can you use a different color???
This is a beautiful cake. how many layers of cake are used for each tier?