Here are some photos showing how to pipe simple buttercream roses onto cupcakes and how to create swirls of buttercream on your cupcakes. I have shown both of these together because if your piped rose goes wrong you can simply carry on piping and create a swirl of buttercream! The nozzle I used to pipe these decorations is shown below. If you do not have this nozzle then use a wide star nozzle, you will get a different effect but still just as useful. At the bottom of this post I have given an example using a star nozzle.
If when you finish the flat rose piping you are not happy with it, don’t pull the piping bag away just continue piping in decreasing circles to produce a swirl.
If you use a star nozzle you will get a slightly different effect.
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Hi
I will by making some cupcakes for a wedding and was hoping to put buttercream topping with decorations on them. However we will be going away for the wedding on a Thursday and the wedding will be on the Friday. So I would need to decorate the cupcakes on the Wednesday. Is this to early for a Friday Wedding?
Its not too early if you take a few precautions to ensure the freshness of the cakes. I would strongly recommend that you use foil cake cases as cakes in paper cases go stale faster. When you ice the cakes try to make sure the buttercream covers the whole of the top of the cake. I have found that buttercream made with butter can taste a bit rancid when kept for a day or so and so in those circumstances I would make the buttercream using Sainsburys Butterlicious which keeps better. Good luck
Hi, I was wondering what pipe number where you using? These look Fantastic!! I just love how amazing they look
Thank you. This nozzle is, I believe, one originally from Lakeland and does not have a number but similar effect can be achieved using any star type nozzle.
Fantastic Gill love it x
Thanks Donna, have you seen the follow up post http://www.cupcakes-to-your-door.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/07/decorating-cupcakes-with-piped-buttercream-followup/ where Victoria has let me show the results of her following these instructions.
thank you!! ive been using the wrong nozzle but ur pics were so clear ive finally managed 2 make a rose!
Thanks for this! Looks great in the pictures, but I’ve yet to achieve it myself, I’m going to give it another go now I’ve looked at your pictures and read your icing recipe tips.
Yesterday I got some new nozzles and am loving them so shall do another post soon showing how the icing looks when you use them. When you have a go put the pics on twitter and then I can see
Hi, what new nozzles did you get? how did you get on with them? Thanks
Hi have you read this post http://www.cupcakes-to-your-door.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/07/decorating-cakes-cupcakes-icing-nozzles/