Elegant Chocolate Peony- Video Tutorial

In today's video tutorial, you are going to learn how to make a gorgeous chocolate candy coating peony and also how to dress up your cake with simple yet elegant chocolate accents.

We love floral cake designs, and candy coating is one of my favorite mediums to work with in cake decorating. I LOVE that a chocolate flower petal or decoration can be piped, chilled, and ready within minutes!

The options are endless and the results are so impressive. I hope that you have fun with this technique!

Learn to create and elegant chocolate peony with candy coating in MyCakeSchool.com's video tutorial!

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Materials for our Chocolate Peony:

We hope that you enjoy creating this beautiful chocolate peony. It really is not as difficult as it looks!

The Cake Tiers

In the tutorial, I used 8 inch and 6 inch stacked tiers, frosted in our fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. Our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a good option as well.

Our tiers are on their own cake cardboards cut down to size, and the 6" tier is supported with bubble tea straws beneath. For more information on how to stack tiers, check out our quick tier stacking cake tutorial!

Use any cake recipe you like! Some of our favorites are white velvet cake, almond cake, lemon cake, and vanilla buttermilk cake. There are so many great options.

The Chocolate Flowers

Template (optional) for piping chocolate fans

24 oz. Candy Coating/Candy Melts/Bark Coating of choice. {My grocery store sells Ambrosia brand and so that is what I used.} I used about half for the "chocolate fan" decorations, and the other half for the peony.

Candy Coloring- If your candy coating is white, and you'd like to tint it, make sure to use candy coloring rather than your usual icing or fondant coloring gels. We used Wilton Pink Candy Color.

Paper Towel Rolls or something of similar shape. We used 3 rolls in different sizes (One empty, One Half Full, and One in between). The forms don't have to be a specific size, just something that will give your petals a bit of curve as they set up.

Cookie sheet (or sheet cake cardboard)

Tape for securing tubes to cookie sheet

Waxed Paper

Plastic Spoon or your tool of choice for spreading petals

Piping Bags (we used disposable) for piping chocolate petals

Miscellaneous: Scissors, Pearl Dust (optional)

More Designs with Candy Coating

In addition to other chocolate flower designs like our Elegant Chocolate Flowers for Cakes and Chocolate Cherry Blossom Cake, we also have some great designs for other occasions as well. We love the dimension that candy coating decorations add to cakes!

Enjoy the Video!

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you give your chocolate peony a try, we would love for you to leave a comment or photo below.

31 Comments

Wow, that is one dramatic flower - I love it! Simple & Quick too!

Beautiful cake. Clever and creative as always :)

Thank you!! xo ;0)

Gorgeous as usual Melissa! Love the reminder to be creative using candy coating...I forget to pipe details/designs, chill them, and attach to the cake. They really do add such an elegant touch. And your flower...wow!! Just lovely!

Will this hold up as a wedding cake? thanks deb k

Thanks Paula!

@Deb-- Yes, it would be fine as long as it is in air conditioning or at least in conditions that are not excessively hot-- same rules as buttercream ;0)

I just checked on the cake from our tutorial which has been sitting on Mom's dining room table for about 2 days now--(about 77 degrees inside). Looks the exact same!

Absolutely stunning! Adding to my list of wanna do cakes!! (I moved this one to the top of my list!) Love all your tutorials and thank you Melissa & BeBe :)

Just want to thank you so much for your lovely tutorials. So very elegant! Thanks again and blessings to you and your Mom! What a wonderful thing for the two of you to be able to do together. : )

Thank you so much for your kind words GuppyLove & Yiggie!! They are so appreciated and we are happy that you like the tutorial! xo

Love, love, LOVE your tutorials <3 Can't wait to do this....I may even assist my son in making the peony for his girlfriend as a special gift. Thank you so much :-)