Get ready for a blooming good time with this sweet spring buttercream cake. Decorated with colorful buttercream flowers, this beautiful cake would be perfect for any spring holiday or celebration.
Celebrate Easter, a birthday, a wedding shower and more with this beautiful spring buttercream cake. Decorated with colorful buttercream flowers, this stunning dessert is sure to wow your guests.
Combine different shades of purple frosting together in the same bag to create the unique 2-color effect. You can also try this decorating technique with shades of pink or blue frosting, as well!
Helpful hint before you get started – these flowers will have to set up in the freezer for a bit before being placed on your cake, so make sure you have room to store them before getting started
Blooming Spring Flower Cake
Get ready for a blooming good time with this sweet spring buttercream cake. Decorated with colorful buttercream flowers, this beautiful cake would be perfect for any spring holiday or celebration.
Equipment
- Standard Coupler (6 needed)
- Tapered Spatula
- Drop Flower Decorating Tip 225 (6 needed)
- Cake board (2 needed)
- Wax Paper
- Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 (6 needed)
- Petal Decorating Tip 101 (6 needed)
- No.7 Flower Nail
- Wax Flower Squares
- Other Helpful Tools: mixing bowls, a spouted measuring cup, cake leveler or serrated knife for trimming cake layers, ruler, scissors, tape toothpicks
Ingredients
- Favorite cake mix or recipe (we suggest our Perfect Basic Yellow Cake or our Classic White Cake recipe!)
- Creamy White Decorator Icing – 4 lb. Tub
- Rose Icing Color
- Violet Icing Color
- Christmas Red Icing Color
Instructions
Step 1: Bake the Cake
- Prepare the cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool 2 cake layers. Trim each layer to 2 ½ in. high.Fill and stack your cake layers using white buttercream frosting. Your cake should be about 5 in. tall.
Step 2: Tint the Frosting
- Using Rose, Violet and Christmas Red icing colors, tint buttercream as follows:For icing the cake:· Tint 2 cups buttercream magenta (combine Rose and Violet icing colors)For making the flowers:· Tint ¾ cup buttercream light pink (combine Christmas Red and Rose icing colors)· Tint ¾ cup buttercream dark pink (combine Rose and a small amount of Violet icing colors) · Tint ¾ cup buttercream pink-purple (combine Rose and a small amount of Violet icing colors)· Tint ¾ cup buttercream light purple (combine Rose and Violet icing colors)· Tint ¾ cup buttercream medium violet (use Violet icing color)· Tint ¾ cup buttercream dark violet (use Violet icing color)
- Reserve the remaining buttercream white.
Step 3: Ice the Cake
- Using the magenta buttercream and an icing smoother, ice your cake smooth
Step 4: Prepare the Decorating Bags
- The colorful details on these buttercream flowers is done by combining more than one buttercream in each decorating bag. The frosting colors mix together as you pipe, creating a lovely, decorative effect.Prepare six decorating bags with couplers. Fill each bag with random amounts of light pink, dark pink, pink-purple, light purple, medium violet, dark violet and white buttercream.You can layer colors (start with white, then layer one or two colors on top of that), or stripe your bag with different colors. If you want solid flowers, just fill your bags within individual colors. The best thing is that there’s no wrong way to fill them!
Step 5: Pipe your flowers
- Attach tip 225 to each prepared decorating bag. Cover a large cake board with wax paper. Using all the decorating bags, pipe about 12 rows of10 to 12 drop flowers. You won’t need all of them, but this will give you plenty of flowers to choose from!Switch all the bags to tip 2. Pipe centers in all the flowers. Once all your drop flowers are done, place them in the freezer to set, about 30 minutes to an hour.For this next batch of flowers, you’ll need a flower nail. If you’ve never used one before, check out our tutorial on How to Use a Flower Nail for easy beginner tips!Switch all the bags to tip 101. Using the Apple Blossom technique, pipe 70 to 80 blossoms using the flower nail and the wax paper squares. Switch all the bags back to tip 2. Pipe centers in all the flowers.Transfer the flowers on their paper squares to another cake board (or you can use the one in the freezer already if there’s room) and freeze until set, about 30 minutes to an hour.
Step 6: Decorate the Cake
- Leave tip 2 on all your decorating bags. Using the remaining frosting in the bags, pipe a column of 5 dots down the side of the cake and attach a blossom to each dot. Repeat around the cake until it’s covered.Prepare a decorating bag with tip 1M and the remaining white buttercream. Pipe tall swirls around the top edge of the cake.Place the drop flowers around the buttercream swirls.Helpful Hint: Both the blossoms and the drop flowers thaw quickly, so only take a few out of the freezer at a time to prevent the flowers from softening too much.
Notes
Helpful Tips
- Tinting buttercream icing purple. Whether you want a deep, dark shade or a soft pastel color, we show you how to get the right purple for your project in this How to Make Frosting Purple blog post.
- When mixing colors, make sure to use a toothpick to add just a little bit at a time to achieve the exact shade of color you’re after.
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