Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network Februrary 2019 Cake! Magazine | Page 51

What’s your favourite medium to work with? Do you prefer a pre-made florist paste or do you make your own? I am actually having my own brand of flower paste developed at the moment, and we are so close to perfecting the finished paste. It’s very exciting. I would say the last batch of trial samples were outstanding. I have never used a paste which is perfect in every sense of the word, however the paste I will bring to the market will be just that. Though you’re based in the UK, you spend much of your time teaching internationally. Do you have any plans to visit Australia soon? duck orchid, to process each part into silicone. Then one day I would hopefully recreate this stunningly beautiful flower in sugar. I love meeting people with the same passion for sugar flowers as I have. I also love educating myself on different cultures and sampling different styles of cuisine. I long to visit all different regions of Australia - I have only been lucky enough to visit Queensland so far. I would like to go to Tasmania to find my favourite flower, the flying more information www.facebook.com/RobertHaynesSugarReflectionsOfNaturesPerfection www.sugarflowerstudio.co.uk