Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network Februrary 2019 Cake! Magazine | Page 43

Jacqueline Butler
interview with
Beautiful Blooms – an interview with Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet
Written by Kellie Rudland
Jacqueline Butler is known the world
over for her delicate pastel blooms
and tiny filler flowers. We chatted with
Jacqueline about her move from cake
artist to floral artist, and what’s next in
the Petalsweet world.
When we last interviewed you in 2014
your business focused on wedding
cakes, but you’ve now shifted to solely
creating sugar flowers. Was this a
daunting transition to make?
It was in the beginning! But I was
getting a lot of requests from lovely
folks wanting to learn how to make
sugar flowers and I found I really
enjoyed teaching. For a while I was
doing cakes and teaching at the same
time, but it just became too difficult to
do them both and do them well, so I
took the chance on teaching and I’m
happy I did! Occasionally I will take
on a custom sugar flower order for a
special project, and these help me
push myself to try new things.
Do you ever miss creating cakes?
I still create a few cakes here and
there for family, friends and some
wonderful long-standing clients, but
I don’t miss making them full time. I
would love to have more free time to