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    Buttercream Tulip Cake

    February 29, 2020 By Melissa Diamond 7 Comments

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    I just love tulips, and in today's Buttercream Tulip Cake tutorial, I will show you how to create them with a beautiful yet surprisingly simple piping technique!

     

    Buttercream Tulip Cake Tutorial

     

    Materials for Buttercream Tulip Cake:

    *This technique would be beautiful on any size cake, including sheet cakes. However, for this tutorial, we are decorating a 6 inch double barrel cake (which stands about 7 inches tall).

    This double barrel cake is 4 six inch cake layers and has a cake cardboard halfway up with 4 bubble tea straws cut to the height of the bottom two (stacked) layers beneath it. We frosted it with our fluffy vanilla buttercream although our classic vanilla buttercream recipe would work well too!

    Vanilla Buttercream (We used our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe. Our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a great choice too!)

    Coloring Gels: Wilton Rose, Leaf Green + Electric Green (Americolor) or your green of choice, Lemon Yellow

    Piping Tips: Tip 125 (large petal tip) for Pink Petals as well as the leaves, Tip 10 for stems, Tip 4 for the bead border and misc. filler flowers at the base

    Miscellaneous: disposable piping bags, cake cardboards (see description of double barrel cake above), pedestal or cake base of choice

    Buttercream Tulip Cake Decorating Video Tutorial

    More Buttercream Tulip Cakes

    We've created a couple of other cake designs with tulips over the years!

    One of our favorites is a free video tutorial of Painting on Buttercream- Fields of Tulips where we get to experiment with painting on a cake using an edible "paint" of coloring gel and vodka. The final result is beautiful!

    In another free cake video tutorial, we demonstrate How to Make a Semi-Naked Cake , which we later top with a few tulips and a beautiful chocolate sail (which we also demonstrate how to make). 

     

    Buttercream Flower Tutorials 

    We hope that you enjoy this tulip cake video! Make sure to check out our other buttercream flower video tutorials in our Buttercream Techniques section!

    We've made many buttercream flower tutorials over the years.  Here are a few of them:

    Buttercream Hydrangea Cake- Free Video

    How to Pipe Buttercream Camellias- Free Video

    Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake- Free Video Tutorial

    Buttercream Irises – Free Video Tutorial

    Buttercream Cherry Blossoms Cake- Free Video

     

    Enjoy the Video!

    Thanks so much for stopping by today. If you give our buttercream tulip cake a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below! 

     

     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    1. MsGF March 1, 2020 at 8:37 am

      Gorgeous cake! I love it! Hopefully I will have an opportunity to make it! Thank you Melissa and BeBe! Fabulous as always!

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    2. Melissa Diamond March 2, 2020 at 11:18 am

      Thanks Teri!! xo

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    3. GuppyLove March 4, 2020 at 11:17 am

      Very pretty, as always! Love tulips?

      Reply
    4. Janice Bach March 14, 2020 at 11:13 pm

      Love this and love ur site! I will always and forever be a member :)

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    5. Melissa Diamond March 14, 2020 at 11:56 pm

      Thank you so much! xoxo

      Reply
    6. Ginny Stolworthy April 19, 2022 at 6:55 pm

      Hi! If I wanted to make this cake smaller, say a 4" double barrel, would I still use the large petal tip or could I use a smaller one and still have it look good?

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      • Melissa Diamond April 19, 2022 at 9:51 pm

        Hi Ginny, for a 4" I bet a smaller piping tip like a 104 would look best. You could experiment on wax paper and hold it against the cake and see what you think.

        Reply

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