How to Make Icing Flowers

How to Make Icing Flowers How to Make Icing Flowers With the Christmas season on, it is always about baking and decorating and celebrating. If you have been thinking about making a beautiful cake with lovely decorations, then this is the best time to be in. making icing flowers look pretty difficult initially, but once you start doing it, you would enjoy it and try out newer and more innovative flowers that you can add to decorate your cake.

Here are some tips to help your make some icing flowers. Why not try a rose for your cake? Roses look lovely when placed on the cake and you can always try out different colors to make a bunch. There are various rose tips available in the market to help you make a rose easily.

Steps to make some lovely roses

Use the tip number 12 to the decorating bag. Fill with your favorite color of butter cream icing.
Take a small waxing paper and pace it on a nail by sticking it with a bit of icing.
Keep the tip of the nail down and the round base up. Place the wax paper carefully on it.
Use stiff consistency icing for the rose base.
Use tip number 12 to create the rose base. First you need to squeeze hard with the bag for a broader base and then lift up slowly. Do not squeeze anymore.
Now place one more round of smaller base on the bigger circle and lift up slowly and in the similar manner without squeezing too hard. You must remember that the rose base should be one and half times higher than the tip. You can try it various times before you get the right shape and size.
Use tip number 104 for the rose center. Use the same stiff consistency for the petals as well. Place the wider end close to the rose base and squeeze turn the nail to the end of your finger. Turn it anti clock wise. You must be very careful with the center of the rose. Perform the similar process for the complete first row.
Use the similar tip number 104 for the second row as well.
This time try a bit broader shape with drawing the nail with a 45 degree angle.
Touch the mid point of the rose with the broader end and place the petal shape with the icing.
Now repeat to cover the mid level of your base with petals. That would take about 4 to 5 petals.
Now create the third row and make it even outer facing. You would need to create petals covering the lower level of the base. This would take about 7 to 8 petals to complete the last row.
Use green icing for the leaves around the rose after placing it to the cake.