So I did promise a follow on from Pam’s Four Tier Wedding Cake post in which we spotlighted her daughter’s wedding cake which she made.

There is a tutorial a lot of cake friends recommend by a Cake Artist called Earlene of Earlene’s Cakes for making Edible Sugar Pearl’s, and Pam used this tutorial when making the pearls for her daughter’s wedding cake, we suggest you check out the links to Earlene’s tutorials, but we show you Pam’s pictures for something different! ;D In addition, there is now a chart to help you calculate how many pearls you would need on different sized cakes.

So it’s not very difficult to make your own pearls and can even be done in front of the TV, the upside is that you can do them in the colour of your choice, to match or compliment your cake.

Roll a piece of fondant out evenly, you can use a pasta machine or spacers, try to use something you can use again if you are trying to keep them uniform in size for a particular project. The thickness of the fondant, can be varied dependent on your needs and size of pearl, there is no hard and fast rule with this.

While you can use a small round cutter, the tips or ends of different shaped piping nozzles are perfect for this process. Simply cut out the shape, roll into a ball and if you want to put in a container with some shimmer dust and swirl, store till needed!

Viola!

Photos courtesy of Pam