Fall Leaves Rice Paper Autumn Wedding Cake Decorating How-To Video Tutorial Part 1

In this simple course, Award-winning sugar artist Tami Utley shares a special rice paper technique to create the most spectacular leaves for a beautiful Autumn wedding cake!

Tam demonstrates cutting the leaf shapes, creating the shape and texture of "real" leaves, and coloring them with airbrush paint sprays and luster dusts.

She offers tips to keep your wafer paper from dissolving, and explains how to achieve the most realistic colors.

This cake was designed for the autumn season, but the techniques Tami shows are easily applied to any other project where wafer paper is used!

This video is Part 1 of 6.

To Complete this project, you'll need the following tools and ingredients:

-4-inch, 6-inch, and 8-inch cakes, stacked and covered in chocolate rolled buttercream and placed on a 13" cake board
-rice or wafer paper
-flat sponge piece
-water
-clear alcohol in a spritzer bottle
-scissors
-leaf cutters and leaf veining tools
-FMM border cutter
-cocoa powder
-gold disco dust
-copper, Aztec gold, bronze, claret and spiced pumpkin luster dusts
-chocolate fondant
-piping gel