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!
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Very beautiful! Love it! Might have to make one :) Quick, Simple and Fabulous as always!
Thanks MsGF!! xoxo
Oh I love this!
Thanks Dene! xoxo
So pretty. Will definitely try this one for Valentines Day! Thanks Melissa
I love love this rose heart cake! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Nancy & Vickie!!
What a sweet and pretty cake…
Beautiful as always! I love a simple show-stopper cake!!
So pretty and dainty! I love it!!!
How much buttercream did you use to make this cake? Double or triple your recipe to have enough?
So pretty. I haven’t done a ribbon rose for a very long time, forgot how cute they are!
Does anybody know how to make fondant? Thanks.
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.
This is so cute! Love the cute little ribbon roses.
is there any way i could download tutorials? Thanks
Hi Elsie, I am sorry but the tutorials cannot be downloaded
Dear Melissa,
I’m Regina from Indonesia. You’re so great. Your cake omg … so beautiful. Thanks again.
Much love,
Regina
Thank you Sadia and Regina!! So happy that you like the cake! xo
Wow I love 😍 all your cakes and I want learn from so badly
Wow!…nice and a beautiful cake..will love to ty my hands o it one of this days
i love all your cakes, well done darling
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.
Thanks for this I will try this for my birthday.