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How to Pipe Buttercream Roses

buttercream rose cakes via 100 Layer Cake

Buttercream roses and piping are a huge trend in cake design at the moment and the trend looks set to grow and grow. The beautiful trio of piped buttercream rose cakes are by The Layered Bakeshop (Ryan Ray Photography), while the cake designs below are from I Am Baker and the Sisters Cake Company.

buttercream rosette cakes byi am baker.com and sistersbakingco.blogspot.com

The buttercream rose cake makes an exquisite wedding cake in white or cream frosting, the design also works great in other colours too as you can see from the super pretty example below by Sugar Muse Bakery in soft pinks and lilacs.

buttercream roses wedding cake by Sugar Muse Bakery via Style Me Pretty left and via Tumblr right

Buttercream is a great medium to work with too.  It’s very easy to pipe and is fantastic for creating textured designs. In fact, it’s a great medium for novice pipers to start with because it’s much “bulkier” than royal icing and it’s easier to control while you are getting used to working with a piping bag.

You’ll find a great tutorial here from I Am Baker on how to pipe a rose cake: how to pipe buttercream roses tutorial.

We have two more beautiful cake designs below from Three Blackbirds Cakes (below left) and via Cakes Décor (below right).

buttercream roses cakes by Three Little Blackbirds and from CakesDecor.com

Below are two variations on the buttercream rose cake design – a very chic single piped rose, offset on an ombre/watercolour effect buttercream cake (below left by The Cake Whisperer) and a cake design with an abundance of miniature buttercream roses equally spaced apart (below right) by Wilton.

piped buttercream roses cakes by Wilton right and via Pinterest left

The rose pattern can also be varied by piping different size roses or varying the space between roses. (Cakes below by Wilton.)

piped-buttercream-roses-cakes-by-Wilton

For more colour inspiration, see our feature on Neapolitan Cakes featuring a triple layered rose cake in strawberry pink, chocolate and vanilla buttercream.

For more on butteream piping see the rest of our series here:

 

  • Buttercream Piping, Part 1 – How to Pipe a Buttercream Petal Cake.
  • Buttercream Piping, Part 2 – How to Pipe a Buttercream Ruffles & Buttercream Frills
  • Vintage Floral Buttercream Cake Tutorial
  • Buttercream Flowers & Floral Wreath Cakes
  • Cupcake Bouquets & Piped Buttercream Flower Tutorials
  • Floral Buttercream Hatbox Cake Tutorial by Valeri Valeriano & Christina Ong
  • Pretty Cupcake Cakes/Giant Cupcakes
  • Pastel Swirl Watercolour Cakes

You will also find a related feature here on fondant Ruffle Rose Cakes.

Readers might also be interested in our series on royal icing piping techniques:

  • Piping Techniques Part 1 – How to Pipe Pearls & Beaded Garlands
  • Piping Techniques Part 2 – How to Pipe Drop Strings
  • Piping Techniques Part 3 – How to Pipe Scrolls
  • Lace Piping & Lace Wedding Cakes
  • Writing in Icing/Piping Lettering on Cakes 

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