Buttercream Ruffles and Roses Cake
Today, we are going to make a beautiful buttercream cake with piped buttercream roses, rose buds, and ruffles!
You can apply the techniques from today's tutorial to cakes for all sorts of special occasions, whether you are looking for birthday cake ideas, bridal shower cakes, baby shower cakes, and more.
If you don't have much experience with piping, don't worry. The techniques that I will demonstrate in this tutorial are not difficult to master with a little practice! It's amazing what you can do with a simple petal tip.
With all of the roses and ruffles, this cake has a romantic, shabby chic feel to it. Whether you recreate this exact design or pick and choose from your favorite elements, we hope that you find the tutorial helpful!
Table of Contents
Materials:
Our stacked tiers are 8" and 6". We frosted the cakes and piped our roses with our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Recipe but any buttercream recipe that holds its shape will do. Our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a great choice also.
Each tier is on its own cardboard cake circle, and the top tier was supported from below by 4 bubble tea straws.
Colors: We used Americolor Deep Pink (just a touch)
Piping Tips: Wilton 104 (petal tip), Wilton 12 (med. round tip), Wilton 4 (bead border and dots), Wilton 101 (small petal tip for tiny roses)
Rose Nail
Waxed Paper Squares
More Buttercream Flowers
If you love creating buttercream flowers for your cakes, we have more cake tutorials for you to try!
We have tutorials for creating beautiful Buttercream Tulips, Buttercream Irises, Buttercream Ribbon Roses, and a pretty Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake just to name a few!
Cake Recipes
You can use all sorts of cake recipes for this Buttercream Roses cake design! Some of our most popular are White Velvet Cake, Lemon Cake from Scratch, Raspberry Cake, and Almond Cake, but we have so many more! Make sure to scroll though them all in our Cake Recipes section!
Enjoy the Video!
We have divided this buttercream ruffles and roses cake in two parts.
Part One: We demonstrate how to pipe buttercream roses (classic as well as a cabbage rose), and rose buds
Part Two: In Part 2, we demonstrate how to pipe the petal-like ruffles around the sides of our tier and also apply our dried buttercream flowers to complete the cake.
Melissa, this is such a lovely dainty looking cake. Thankyou for this tutorial. Big thankyou for showing how to do those rosebuds! I haven't had any luck with those darn things! But you have really explained it well. I feel a little more confident again! Here I go!!
The video is not playing for me:(
The video is not playing
Hi Sadia and Cynthia, are you able to see the other videos? It is playing on our end so I'm wondering if you need to update your Adobe Flash. Here is a link , and it is free.
Hi Sadia and Cynthia, Melissa has re-embedded the video just in case that would help you, if not, I would try the Adobe Flash Player update ....in the above post. Let us know if you are still having a problem
Not playing for me either :(
I so Love this cake!! It is so beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I am just starting to look at the video now.
I love your instructions!! You make, making the rose so easy!! Thank You!
Hi Melissa, what kind of buttercream are you using for these roses. Do you have the recipe here? I have not been very lucky with this kind of roses and I think is because I have not found a good recipe for this technique-
Thank you in advance for your response
Sorry I just read that they were made with the Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Recipe, I will try this one.
Thank you
Hey I was woundering about watching your videos over cell phones? I get like first few minutes then it won't play. I just got a new phone HTC one and it's not playing at all the link to the flash drive is not compatible with it or my old phone. So what can those of us watching over mobile devices do to watch them? I know I would love to learn this from you.
Hi Candace, I have been told that some phones do not have the power to load and play long videos. Since you are able to watch a few minutes before it stops that could be the problem. This might be a good question to put on the Forum to see if any other members who have HTC phones have a solution.