Create a lovely edible garden right from the comfort of your own home! Using stiff consistency buttercream and a couple of standard piping tips, you can learn how to pipe buttercream flowers on your favorite homemade (or store-bought) cupcakes. This step-by-step video will teach you how to pipe a buttercream daisy and a buttercream carnation.
Ingredients:
- Colored Sugar
- Buttercup Yellow Icing Color
- Meringue Powder
- Royal Icing
Tools:
- Round Cake Decorating Tip 5
- Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
- 1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- Standard Coupler
- Flower Former Set
- Waxed paper
Instructions:
Step 1: Tint medium consistency frosting with petal color and a small amount with center frosting color. Fit one decorating bag with petal decorating tip 104 and fill 1/4 full or less with petal tinted frosting. Fit second decorating bag with round decorating tip 5 and fill 1/4 full or less with yellow tinted frosting.
Step 2: Attach flower nail template, if using, to Flower Nail. Using a dot of frosting, attach icing flower square to flower nail.
Step 3: Hold the decorating bag with tip 104 and petal icing at a 45-degree angle at 3:00 (9:00 for lefthanded decorators) with wide end lightly touching 1/4 in. from center of the nail; narrow end is pointing out and angled slightly upward. Starting at any point near the outer edge of flower nail, squeeze and move tip towards center of nail. Stop squeezing; pull tip.
Step 4: Repeat for a total of 12 or more petals. If using the template, pipe about 2 petals in each section of the template.
Step 5: For flower center, hold decorating bag with yellow frosting and tip 5 at a 90-degree angle, slightly above the flower. Add a center dot.
Notes: Flower centers can be highlighted with Wilton Cake Sparkles, or colored sugars. First, dampen finger slightly, then dip in colored sugar; touch freshly piped flower center. Dry overnight in the large concave Wave Flower Former.
Ingredients:
Tools:
- Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
- Petal Cake Decorating Tip 104
- Petal Cake Decorating Tip 150
- 1.5 Inch Flower Nail No7
- Pre-cut icing flower making squares
- 12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count
Instructions:
Step 1: Using a decorating bag fitted with a Tip 104, hold the bag with the wide end of the tip touching the surface of the Flower Nail, keeping the narrow end slightly above the surface.
Step 2: Begin the first row of five petals. Pipe first petal moving tip 104 in a jiggling up-and-down motion.
Step 3: Continue with four more petals, slightly overlapping the previous petal.
Step 4: Angle tip up slightly. Finish with one or two center petals at top. Let dry.
Note: Make the petals of this richly textured flower using a tight up-and-down motion. Piping on the apple blossom/primrose template from our flower nail templates set will help guide you to proper petal position.
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ALOHA from Hawaii !! Very informative video! LOVE IT! Instructor just adorable. Can’t wait to try these!! Thank you so much!
ALOHA! Thank you Linda. We’re happy to hear that this video was informative. We hope you have fun making these and don’t forget to share and tag us @wiltoncakes 🙂
Need to make a top view video so we can see what you are doing when you make the carnation pedals. It is kind of hard to see what you’re doing in the “squeeze, slide, giggle, giggle, giggle” motion. Sorry.
Hi Pamela. We’re sorry that you’re not able to see what’s going on. If you would like to view a wider video and also other videos please visit our Wilton Cake Decorating Facebook page.