Buttercream Rose Heart Cake- Free Video- My Cake School

In this quick and easy Buttercream Ribbon Rose Heart Cake Tutorial, I’m going to demonstrate how to cover a heart shaped cake in beautiful blanket of buttercream ribbon roses. This technique is so much easier than it looks, and can be applied to all sorts of cake designs!

I love cakes and cupcakes that feature piped buttercream flowers, and ribbon roses are among the easiest buttercream flowers to make. If you are new to buttercream piping, ribbon roses are a great place to start.

This romantic buttercream ribbon rose sweetheart cake would be perfect for all sorts of occasions including Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, and engagement parties. Once you’ve gotten the hang of them, you’ll want to add ribbon roses to everything! They make such a sweet & quick accent for cakes and cupcakes.

Enjoy the tutorial!

Materials:

For this video tutorial, we decorated a heart shaped cake (baked in a 9 inch heart pan) with tinted Pink Champagne Buttercream. Any buttercream frosting would work for this, but frostings containing butter (rather than shortening) will work best as they will firm up more quickly when chilled. Our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a good choice also.

Your Cake & Buttercream of Choice.(Butter based frostings will work best, as mentioned above.)

Coloring Gels: Americolor Deep Pink, Wilton Leaf Green,

Piping Tips: Wilton 104 petal tip, Wilton 366 leaf tip, tip 352 (smaller leaf), round tip 6 for small piped hearts (any small round tip is fine)

waxed paper or parchment squares

rose nail

Cake board/Cake base. For our cake base, we used three cardboard cake circles wrapped with a white plastic tablecloth (secured underneath with staples).

Sugar Pearls: Optional. I sprinkled a few pink & white sugar pearls between the roses as filler.

Notes

I crumb coated my cake in white frosting but next time I would crumb coat in green frosting so that any small spaces between the roses would just look like leaves in the background.

I piped lots and lots of roses…more than I actually used but I still used approximately 70-80 roses of all different sizes. If you do not enjoy this much piping, or if you don’t have time, you may consider using less time consuming filler flowers like hydrangeas (2D star tip) or rosettes (tip 21 or 2D).

Here’s a view of the piping that we did around the sides! Large piped buttercream leaves make for a beautifully unique (and easy) design!

Thanks for stopping by, we hope that you enjoyed the video!

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**If you’re interested in even more Valentine’s Day or love themed cakes and sweets, check out our Valentine’s Day Roundup of Cake and Cupcake Ideas!

We hope that you’ve enjoyed this buttercream tutorial–it’s a GREAT method to add to your decorating bag of tricks! Thanks for stopping by! Don’t forget to check out our full collection of Free Cake Tutorials! We have lots! xoxo

Comments

MsGF January 31, 2017 at 6:40 pm

Very beautiful! Love it! Might have to make one Quick, Simple and Fabulous as always!
Melissa Diamond January 31, 2017 at 10:58 pm

Thanks MsGF!! xoxo
Dene Swearingen February 1, 2017 at 9:05 am

Oh I love this!
Melissa Diamond February 1, 2017 at 11:25 am

Thanks Dene! xoxo
nancy sicks February 1, 2017 at 2:27 pm

So pretty. Will definitely try this one for Valentines Day! Thanks Melissa
Vickie February 1, 2017 at 5:02 pm

I love love this rose heart cake! Thank you for sharing!
Melissa Diamond February 1, 2017 at 5:34 pm

Thanks Nancy & Vickie!!
June February 1, 2017 at 9:08 pm

What a sweet and pretty cake…
Julie Stottmann February 1, 2017 at 9:59 pm

Beautiful as always! I love a simple show-stopper cake!!
Jennifer Daniel February 2, 2017 at 10:41 am

So pretty and dainty! I love it!!!
Georgia February 2, 2017 at 3:09 pm

How much buttercream did you use to make this cake? Double or triple your recipe to have enough?
Elaine Henderson February 2, 2017 at 5:54 pm

So pretty. I haven’t done a ribbon rose for a very long time, forgot how cute they are!
Evelyn February 2, 2017 at 6:09 pm

Does anybody know how to make fondant? Thanks.
Melissa Diamond February 2, 2017 at 10:52 pm

Thank you all so much for your comments!

@Georgia, most of our frosting recipes in the recipes section make around 4 cups of frosting or so. For these recipes, I would double. In the video, I’m working with our Pink Champagne Buttercream recipe which makes about 8 cups of frosting, so I did not need to double.

@Evelyn, we like to use Liz Marek’s recipe which you can find in a google search. It’s a combination of marshmallow fondant and pre-made fondant.
Sadia Wasim February 3, 2017 at 2:04 pm

This is so cute! Love the cute little ribbon roses.
Elsie Bernardino February 6, 2017 at 1:21 pm

is there any way i could download tutorials? Thanks
BeBe February 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm

Hi Elsie, I am sorry but the tutorials cannot be downloaded
regina February 12, 2017 at 7:50 am

Dear Melissa,
I’m Regina from Indonesia. You’re so great. Your cake omg … so beautiful. Thanks again.
Much love,
Regina
Melissa Diamond February 12, 2017 at 11:59 am

Thank you Sadia and Regina!! So happy that you like the cake! xo
Emmy February 15, 2017 at 12:02 pm

Wow I love 😍 all your cakes and I want learn from so badly
Rebecca February 21, 2017 at 1:39 am

Wow!…nice and a beautiful cake..will love to ty my hands o it one of this days
DORIS March 21, 2017 at 3:41 am

i love all your cakes, well done darling
Sweety April 17, 2017 at 10:20 am

Perfect Heart Shaped Cake for valentines day to express your love towards your partner. I often order a cake from Monginis online cake shop. But for this valentines day i will try this recipe.