50+ Buttercream Cake Designs (Free Tutorials)

We love this buttercream cake which features delicate pastel brush strokes and custom chocolate candy coating spheres! Learn how we made it in our free tutorial!

Decorators often forget about (or aren't familiar with) St Honore Piping Tips, but they are so much fun to work with and the results are so uniquely beautiful. If you enjoy piping, you will really like these piping tips.

This textured buttercream raununculus cake is so easy to make, and perfect for all sorts of occasions! Would make a beautiful single tier design or sheet cake design as well. Learn to make it in our free tutorial!

We love flamingo cakes and have made several over the years! Other than the cake topper, this sweet design is decorated entirely in buttercream! Such a fun cake design to make, and it would work great for sheet cakes as well!

These buttercream cherry blossoms are some of the easiest flowers to make! We love this design for spring, and it would be just as beautiful as a single tier!

Naked cakes have been popular for years and the options are endless!. In this tutorial, we decided to decorate ours with elegant buttercream scrollwork.

This is one of our all-time favorites! Learn how to create this beautiful palette knife painting design in this free tutorial. Once you've learned the basic techniques, you can create all sorts of elegant designs for your cakes.

We love buttercream piping! In this tutorial, we'll show you an easy "looped buttercream" design that is surprisingly quick to create using a petal tip. We'll also sho you how to make a quick buttercream hydrangea!

Another favorite, this buttercream design technique is so elegant yet very simple to create with a simple, repetitive piping technique. Learn how we made it in our quick tutorial!

Don't miss this collection of very easy yet elegant buttercream cake designs! We'll demonstrate several easy techniques that every cake decorator should know.

Learn to pipe beautiful frosting flowers (as well as a cute hummingbird cake topper) in this free tutorial! It is perfect for birthdays, showers, and more.

This fluffy puppy cake is easier than it looks to make, and perfect for young birthdays or for dog lovers. He is covered in buttercream fur!

This buttercream cartoon cake (or comic cake) is frosted in buttercream with black buttercream piping, and topped with chocolate candy coating hearts! This unique cake is perfect for birthdays!

Another favorite! This pretty swan design features tiny buttercream ruffles and two buttercream swans (with a bit of fondant too!) ;0) We love this for bridal showers! This cake also inspired our Valentine Flamingos cake design.

Buttercream hydrangeas are my favorite! They are so beautiful and yet so easy to make! Learn what piping tip to use to create these fluffy flowers!

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a simple ruched design for the top tier, as well as how to use a quilted impression mat on crusting buttercream.

A buttercream petal cake is a simple, elegant cake design for any skill level of cake decorating! It is beautiful as a single tier, stacked tiers, and even a sheet cake design.

This stained glass buttercream tutorial has been on our site for years but I still love it! Once you've learned this technique, you can apply it to all sorts of cake designs!

This is an oldie but always a favorite of ours! Learn how to make a gigantic piped buttercream rose on top of your cakes in this quick tutorial!

This textured floral buttercream design is another favorite because it is so easy to create! We'll show you how to make it in our quick tutorial.

This puffed rainbow cake design is named for the puffed appearance of our piping, using a medium sized round rip. It would also be beautiful all as one color. Learn to make it in our free tutorial!

This elegant buttercream cake design features palette knife roses!

Learn how to make jumbo frosting flowers in this fun tutorial!

This sweet fish cupcake cake is an old favorite! We'll show you how to make it in our step by step blog tutorial.

This buttercream wave cake with chrysanthemums is so pretty and perfect for birthdays!

If you love flowers, and especially irises, don't miss our buttercream iris cake tutorail! this would be so pretty as a single tier cake or a sheet cake also.

This pretty buttercream dogwood cake design makes a beautiful tiered cake, but could also easily be simplified for a single tier (or sheet cake). You could also change things up and make pretty light pink dogwood flowers.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a buttercream fault line cake! This style lends itself to all sorts of fun themes. In this tutorail, we created a watermelon.

Learn a beautfiul buttercream piping technique as well as how to make a simple, elegant floral wreath in this cake decorating video!

This favorite bridal shower cake design features rows and rows of buttercream ruffles! It is such an easy cake design, and beautiful too! Keep it in mind for sheet cakes as well.

This "Love" themed cake is perfect for anniversaries and Valentine's Day, and features easy buttercream embroidery! (Not to be confused with brush embroidery, which we have a tutorail on as well.)

This colorful henna-inspired cake design is great for those that are comfortable with freehand piping! Makes a great birthday cake! For a more elegant look, you could pipe white patterns against ivory buttercream.

This elegant buttercream cake design features several techniques. We love the delicate eyelet design on the top tier as well as the simple buttercream flowers, and small piped leaves that cover the bottom tier.

This semi-naked red velvet cake features a very thin layer of frosting, chunky "petals" of frosting on top, and a beautiful chocolate sail. Learn how to make this deisgn in our free tutorial!

The simple buttercream scrollwork on this tiered cake design features lots of simple daisies, dots, and leaves. We'll show you how to make a gum paste bow topper as well.

This pretty buttercream bridal gown (with a couple of fondant accents) is one of our favorites! Learn how to make it in our free tutorial.

More scrollwork! This simple scrollwork design is so pretty on single tiers, sheet cakes, or stacked tiers as we demonstrate in this tutorial.

This unique buttercream cake design features lots of overlapping circles of buttercream, which are applied while chilled.

In this free tutorial, we'll demonstrate how to create this elegant white-on-white buttercream floral cake design! These flowers are very simple to create.

This sweet buttercream tulip cake is so cheerful and perfect for springtime, or for the flower lovers in your life.

This cake, which features rows of simple piping techniques has a vintage look that we just love!

This layered buttercream cake has three layers of colors and textures. We love this method for creating beautifully unique cake designs for all sorts of occasions!

This is another favorite method of ours! We weren't sure what to name it, but for now, buttercream panels is what we are calling it- as it looks like the cake is wrapped in layered panels of frosting.The technique isn't nearly as difficult as you would imagine. Hop over for a quick tutorial!

Hop over for this quick post on naked cakes! These techniques couldn't be simpler but can be every bit as elegant as a traditional frosted cake.

If you are new to cake decorating, don't miss this quick tutorial on piping with 1M piping tips for a variety of elegant, simple designs!

Learn how to create colorful rainbow stripes with a smooth effect for this beautiful rainbow cake!

This romantic Buttercream Ribbon Rose Cake is would be perfect for Valentine's Day or anniversaries!

This elegant loopy buttercream piping is surprisingly simple to create, yet looks beautiful on cakes for all sorts of special occasions!

Learn how to make a CUTE Dinosaur Cupcake Cake! This cake is perfect for kids parties!

Learn to make this cute and simple cupcake sheet cake in our step by step tutorial!

This cute buttercream transfer cake was so much fun to make! I love this cheery design but this technique could be applied to all sorts of designs and occasions.

This sweet Buttercream Bassinet Cake is super cute, easy to make, and would be perfect for baby showers!

Learn how to make a beautiful textured buttercream cake with chalkboard plaque in this free cake decorating video tutorial! This technique is perfect for weddings, showers, birthdays, and more!

This adorable Valentine Flamingos cake is perfect for Valentine's Day, anniversaries, beach themed parties, and more! Learn how to make it in this free cake video tutorial.

Learn how to make a beautiful striped buttercream design in this cake decorating tutorial!

Learn how to make a cake with a beautiful mable buttercream effect in this free cake decorating video tutorial!

Learn how to make an adorable buttercream Ice Cream Cone Cake with buttercream stripes in this free cake decorating video tutorial! This cake is perfect for birthdays, summertime parties, and more!