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    Home » Blog » Video Tutorials » Themes and Occasions Video Tutorials » Seasonal & Holiday » Spring

    Buttercream Floral Wreath- A Cake Decorating Video

    May 5, 2016 By Melissa Diamond 20 Comments

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    I LOVE that buttercream floral wreaths have become such a popular trend in cake decorating. These wreaths with their delicately piped flowers have such an elegant feel to them, and can be a bit intimidating to decorators new to the world of piping. But don't worry!

    I'm going to share a few of my favorite buttercream flowers for a wreath that is not only impressive but surprisingly simple to assemble. As an added bonus, I'm sharing a really fun piped design for the sides of your cakes as well. Enjoy!! ;0)

    Beautiful Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake Decorating Video Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com. Online cake tutorials, recipes, and more!

     

     Materials:

    In the video, I'm decorating an 8" tier with our fluffy vanilla buttercream recipe.  Any buttercream recipe will do!

    Piping Tips: Ateco 48 (or similar basketweave tip), Wilton 104, Wilton 12, Wilton 2D, Wilton 233 (grass tip), Wilton 81 (for chrysanthemums), Wilton 352 leaf tip

    Coloring Gels: Americolor Yellow, Electric Green for hydrangeas, Wilton Rose, Leaves are piped with a combination of Wilton Leaf Green & Americolor Avocado Green

    Rose Nail, waxed paper (cut into squares)

    Miscellaneous- This cake was on it's own cardboard cake circle, pedestal/cake base. I used a small offset spatula & bench scraper to frost the cake as usual before adding the piped details. Couplers (optional), disposable piping bags

    Notes:

    *Once we were ready to start decorating the cake with our flowers, we chilled them for 15-2o minutes in the freezer or until firm & easily removed from the waxed paper. I wouldn't recommend freezing for much longer than that although you can relocate the flowers to the refrigerator to chill further as you work.

    If you are working in advance, you can simply dry your crusting buttercream flowers rather than chilling them. When going this route, drying them overnight works well for me. (Keep in mind that colors may fade in direct sunlight or under fluorescent light.)

    When creating a wreath, don't limit yourself to the flowers that we demonstrated. There are any number of combinations that would work well--even something as simple as hydrangeas or simple rosettes all the way around would be beautiful! Have fun experimenting!

     

    Beautiful Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake Video Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Online cake tutorials, recipes, videos, and more!



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    1. BeBe May 17, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      Hi Melissa, I think it will be very pretty on a bundt cake.

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    2. Amanda EM June 25, 2016 at 8:28 am

      Hi Melissa, i love your design. I was wondering if i can use ur chocolate buttercream recipe insted of fluffy vanila. And also wanna know if i can make green and yellow colour buttercream for leaves and flowers in advance say for 3 days before the actual decorating day?

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    3. Melissa Diamond June 25, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Hi Amanda! The flowers would need to be done in vanilla buttercream so that you color the frosting for the flowers, but yes chocolate buttercream would be just fine for frosting the cake. I think it would be a very pretty color contrast, and the buttercream piping around the sides would work nicely with chocolate frosting. You can make green and yellow buttercream in advance-- I would store in the refrigerator though! ;0)

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    4. Amanda EM June 26, 2016 at 9:01 am

      Hi Melissa, thanks for the info. Im so excited to make the cake this Saturday. Will let you know how it went. Cheers!

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    5. Leslie Tamares June 26, 2016 at 6:38 pm

      Gorgeous cake! love it!!btw, what's the buttercream ingredients ?thanks

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    6. BeBe June 26, 2016 at 6:43 pm

      Hi Leslie, Thank you for your comment on the cake! We used the Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe from the recipe section, but any crusting buttercream recipe will be fine.

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    7. Paula M. July 8, 2016 at 2:52 pm

      Which frosting recipe did you use for your lovely flowers? Thank you.

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    8. Melissa Diamond July 8, 2016 at 5:23 pm

      Hi Paula- We used our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Recipe, but others would work fine too. For this, I prefer ones that have at least some butter in the recipe so that the flowers will firm up more quickly when chilled! ;0) https://www.mycakeschool.com/recipes/fluffy-vanilla-buttercream/

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