Best frosting for piping flowers

These Easy Buttercream Flowers are the perfect project for the buttercream newbie. ⁠ ⁠ Even if you’ve never piped a flower before, these 5 petal flowers are a great starting point!⁠ ⁠ I'm using my easy buttercream frosting for these flowers, and am freezing them before applying them onto my cake or cupcakes.⁠ ⁠ Pro tip: Make sure your buttercream is smooth and bubble-free by mixing your buttercream on low with the paddle attachment for 10-15 minutes after you make it. ⁠ ⁠ #buttercream

Ah, mums. Those flowers you see for sale outside every grocery store once September rolls around. There are TONS of varieties of mums, but the garden variety that you see most often comes in shades of red, yellow, orange, purple, and white. Icing Consistency To pipe buttercream mums, you’ll want to use a stiff consistency icing. I almost always use Italian Meringue Buttercream for piping flowers. Colors To make your buttercream mums really pop, use two different shades of the same color. One…

Learn how to make Buttercream Frosting recipe that is not too sweet in this easy tutorial. Best Buttercream Frosting for decorating cakes and piping flowers

Beautiful buttercream flowers are so easy to make and enhance every dessert. I've packed ALL my tips and tricks into this post along with a video tutorial!

Perfect Piping Buttercream is the absolute best recipe for frosting cakes and cookies with a great consistency just right for piping your beautiful designs. This luscious buttercream frosting is light and airy with added flavor from vanilla and almond extract.

Russian piping tips allow you to create large numbers of uniform flowers very quickly so decorating your cakes and cupcakes flies by in a snap! via @preppykitchen

Although they look intricate, buttercream flowers are actually fairly easy to make. Use our easy to follow guide to start piping petals like a pro, today!

The best cake and cupcake piping tips for cake decorating and step-by-step on how to use them to create beautiful designs.