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    Decorated Treats » Designs & Tutorials

    Simple Buttercream Flowers Cake

    Published: Sep 5, 2020 · Modified: Mar 14, 2024 by Priya Maha

    Learn how to make simple buttercream flowers cake with this easy tutorial. The buttercream flowers are easy to make and you can get the cake done fairly quickly.

    A round beige cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream piping and white flowers.
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    🧾Supplies Required

    • Cake - I used my coffee cake recipe for this cake. The cake was baked in two 6 inch pans and filled with vanilla buttercream.
    • Buttercream - I used untinted vanilla buttercream for the filling and to crumb coat the cake. I also used buttercream for the final brown frosting, the flowers, and the leaves on the cake.
    • Wilton food color in Juniper Green
    • Americolor food coloring in turquoise, navy blue, royal blue, brown, black
    • Piping tips - I used Wilton round piping tip number 3 for dots swirls, star tip number 18 (for large lilies), and star tip number 16 (for small lilies) for the water lilies, leaf tip number 352 for the green leaves and petal tip number 101 for the 5 petal flowers.
    • Disposable piping bags

    👩‍🍳How to Make

    Step 1: Bake and Cover the Cake with Buttercream

    Once the cakes are baked (I baked two 6 inch round cakes) and cooled, level the tops and sandwiched them with buttercream followed by a thin layer of crumb coat.

    Cover the whole cake with buttercream tinted with brown and black. I used very little brown and black to tint the buttercream. The idea is to get just a light tint of black-brown to the icing. Smooth the icing on the cake.

    Step 2: Make the Horizontal Lines on the Buttercream

    Next is the horizontal lines on the sides of the cake. You need a palette knife for this. Hold a palette knife on one hand as shown below and then used the other hand to turn the turntable continuously. As you turn the turntable, gradually move your hand holding the palette knife upwards so that the lines continue forming until the top.

    In doing this, the knife should only very lightly touch the icing to avoid it from totally scraping off the icing from the cake. Once the sides are done, continue with the top of the cake, starting from the outside and slowly moving towards the center of the cake.

    A round cake covered in plain smooth buttercream.
    The sides of a beige buttercream covered round cake.

    This image is to show you how I held the palette knife while rotating the turntable. Like I mentioned above, the lines should start from bottom to top. I had already done the lines before I took this shot, so the picture below is only to show how I held the palette knife.

    Using a palette knife to make horizontal lines on the sides of a cake.

    And here was how the top of my cake looked like.

    The top of a beige buttercream covered round cake.

    Step 3: Pipe the Buttercream Bead Border

    For the cake border, using Wilton tip #3 to pipe a bead border all around.

    Bead border on a round cake.

    Step 4: Make the Buttercream Flowers

    Tint some buttercream into blue and turquoise.

    A parchment square attached to a flower nail, held in hand.

    Cut square parchment paper pieces. You will be using one piece for each flower. To pipe the flowers, attach the paper to a flower nail with some buttercream.

    2 petals of a buttercream flower in blue piped on a parchment square held on a flower nail.

    Using petal tip #101, pipe 5 petals to make each flower.

    Dark blue buttercream flower on a parchment square.

    This is how the completed flower should look like.

    Dark blue buttercream flowers on parchment squares.

    Slide the paper off the flower nail and place it on a flat tray. Freeze until the flowers become firm.

    When ready to use, peel them off the paper and place them gently on the cake with a spatula. Pipe white centers for the flowers using Wilton tip #3.

    Top of a round cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream flowers.

    Next are the lilies. Use tips #18 and #16 and white buttercream. To make the lilies, pipe one star on the cake, lift the nozzle completely, and then pipe another one on top of the earlier star.

    Pipe white buttercream stars randomly on the cake near to the flowers on top of the cake. Add some green buttercream leaves after the flowers.

    Step 5: Make the Dot Swirls

    Once the flowers are all done, you can go ahead and do the swirls in dot piping. To do this, use Wilton tip #3. Start with the dark blue dots, beginning the scrolls close to the flowers and then continue to the center of the cake with turquoise icing. This was how the top of my cake looked like:

    A round beige cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream piping and white flowers.

    Complete the cake by piping the same swirls and white lilies on the sides of the cake, but only halfway up:

    A round beige cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream piping and white flowers.

    And that's pretty much how to decorate this simple buttercream flowers cake.

    A round beige cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream piping and white flowers.

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    A round beige cake decorated with blue and turquoise buttercream piping and white flowers.