Floral Cake Designs
Spring is just around the corner and we wanted to highlight some of our favorite floral cake design ideas!
In this roundup of favorite floral cake decorating tutorials from our site, you'll find a variety of cake designs including buttercream flowers, chocolate candy coating designs, natural flowers and more.
Keep this collection in mind the next time you are looking for birthday cake ideas, elegant cakes, bridal shower or baby shower cake ideas, Mother's Day, Easter, and more! We hope that you enjoy scrolling through.
Cake Recipes
The floral cake techniques highlighted in today's roundup can be applied to cakes of any size! Make sure to check out our huge collection of cake recipes, which includes cake recipes from scratch as well as cake mix recipes!
Some of our most popular cakes are our white velvet cake, vanilla buttermilk cake, lemon cake from scratch, orange cake, and carrot cake. We have many, many cakes we'd love to share with you!
Floral Cake Designs
Sharing some of our favorite free cake decorating tutorials that feature floral decorations in buttercream, gum paste, chocolate, and more!
Elegant Textured Buttercream Flowers
This super easy palette knife floral design in buttercream is always a favorite!
Elegant Chocolate Flowers for Cakes
You won't believe how simple these beautiful chocolate flowers are to make! No fancy tools required ;0)
Raunculus Fields Cake- Painting with Buttercream Tutorial
These buttercream ranunculus flowers are simple no matter what you skill level of cake decorating! We love the dimension of these textured buttercream flowers.
Quilted Buttercream- A Video Tutorial
This elegant buttercream cake design features a quilted tier, a ruched buttercream tier, and a beautiful yet simple chrysanthemum.
Palette Knife Roses in Buttercream
Another palette knife buttercream design! Just a few simple roses can really elevate a cake design- we love this cake idea for birthdays, bridal showers, and more!
Painted Fondant Daisy Cake Tutorial
This cute and simple painted fondant daisy cake has a fun cartoonish feel. This fun cake design couldn't be easier to make!
Buttercream Wave Cake with Chrysanthemums
We love buttercream chrysanthemums! We'll show you how to make them in this quick tutorial, as well as a buttercream wave pattern around the sides.
Buttercream Hydrangeas Video
These big and fluffy buttercream hydrangeas can be made with a large star piping tip! Simple and beautiful!
Buttercream Palette Knife Painting
This textured floral buttercream design is one our favorites! Learn how we put it altogether in our free tutorial. These techniques can be applied to cakes of any size!
Elegant Chocolate Peony- Video Tutorial
Learn to create this elegant peony with chocolate candy coating! It makes a wonderfully unique cake topper.
Layered Buttercream Cake Tutorial
This layered buttercream cake design is simple to create, and works for any occasion. It can easily be changed up no matter what size of cake or color scheme you need. We topped our with a fresh gerbera daisy.
Buttercream Cherry Blossoms Cake Tutorial
This cherry blossom cake design is a beautiful choice for spring occasions! Whether you need a single tier or multiple tiers as we have, this simple effect is so elegant.
Elegant White Buttercream Flowers Cake
Learn how to create this beautiful white-on-white buttercream design in our free tutorial!
Fondant Ruffled Rose Cake- Free Tutorial
This fondant ruffled rose cake has been a favorite of ours over the years! Perfect for bridal showers, weddings, and more. Whether you use the design of just one tier or all three, this cake design is sure to please a crowd!
Meringue Roses Cake- Video Tutorial
We love to decorate cakes with meringues! They are lightweight and have such a unique, puffed appearance. We love the dimension that they add to cakes!
Chocolate Cherry Blossom Cake- A Video Tutorial
This beautiful cherry blossom cake is made with candy coating! We love this medium as the designs can be piped, chilled, and applied so quickly! We also love the dimension. Keep this design in mind for your spring and summer cakes!
Pretty Buttercream Piping Design (with fresh flowers)
Here's a pretty cake that features simple scrollwork and fresh roses! We'll show you howh to make it in our free tutorial.
Elegant Stencil and Ruffle Cake in Buttercream
This elegant buttercream cake features, piping, stenciling, and is topped with fresh roses.
Buttercream Eyelet Cake Tutorial
This cake design features buttercream eyelet, buttercream flowers, and an all-over piped leaf design around the bottom tier.
Buttercream Ribbon Roses Cake
Have we mentioned that we love buttercream ribbon roses? We'll show you how to quickly and easily pipe these simple flowers to add to your cakes!
Marbled Fondant with Wafer Paper Flower
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create marbled fondant as well as how to make a large wafer paper flower!
Russian Piping Tips- Cake Tutorial
Have you worked with Russian Piping Tips? In this tutorial, we'll show you a few favorites!
Elegant Fondant Appliques
This design is created using fondant cutouts that are embellished with buttecream. Learn this elegant technique in ouor free cake tutorial.
Hummingbird Cake Topper with Fluffy Frosting Flowers
Learn how to make large, fluffy flowers as well as a cute humingbird cake topper in this cake tutorial.
How to Pipe Large Frosting Flowers!~Video Tutorial
Learn to make these billowy flowers for your cakes and cupcakes in this free tutorial!
Buttercream Dogwoods Cake Tutorial
Learn to create beautiful dogwood flowers for your springtime cakes
Buttercream Ruffled Roses Cake
Learn to make this beautiful buttercream ruffle rose cake in our free tutorial! We love this design for birthdays, bridal showers, and more!
Gum Paste Roses Cake Tutorial
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to make beautiful and realistic gum paste roses!
Buttercream Irises- A Video Tutorial
Learn to make beautiful buttercream irises for yoru spring and summer cakes in this free cake decorating video!
Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake Tutorial
Learn to make a lovely buttercream floral wreath for your cakes as well as a beautiful pattern of piping around the sides.
Gum Paste Peony Cake with Buttercream Ruffles
Learn to make gum paste peonies in this free tutorial! You'll also learn the easy yet elegant buttercream technique used around the sides!
Buttercream Pansy Cake (with Watering Can Topper)
Another great cake for spring! Learn to pipe buttercream pansies in this tutorial, as well as how to create a sweet watering can cake topper!
Buttercream Transfer Flower Cake
This cute buttercream floral design has a cartoonish feel and is achieved using a frozen buttercream wrap! Learn to make it in our free tutorial!
A very beautiful collection :-) So many inspiring ideas! :-)