How to create Icing Flowers and Leaves
Let's look at some flower and leaf designs, and how you can turn almost any of the techniques you learned in class into a flower cake design.
This tight rosette cake is simple but impactful.
Using a large star tip to create the rosettes on top and around the middle require a nice smooth cake finish.
Leaves were pipped to turn the rosettes into flowers.
The cake was finished off with a one way left reverse shell all the way around the cake.
This cake design is well executed using only a couple of techniques. I love how those techniques were translated into flowers.
Here we have varying sizes of rosettes as a band border running through the side of this cake.
Leaves were strategically placed to create the effect of a floral band, stars were piped and dots added to the centers to create star flowers.
It's simple but pretty and would be great for a tea party themed celebration or even a Mother's Day cake.
Next, we have a half wreath floral spray design.
In this example, rosettes were used along with flowers and leaves.
These flowers have 4 petals, but you could replace them with 5 petal apple blossoms.
The filler flowers were done with Russian tips, but you could use your grass tip to create a similar filler flower.
This is a great floral wreath cake!
It's a bit trickier because you need to build up a based wreath of frosting underneath before you start adding your elements.
Rosettes were pipped directly on the cake, then the mums were added.
From there the spaces were filled in with stars using the #32 tip.
A smaller star tip (#16) was used for the centers of the flowers.
This cake is fun with the addition of a zig zag texture, full length around the side of the cake.
The top has a rosette flower border with leaves and the bottom of the cake has stars and leaves.
Its not a full border and the goal was to space the bottom design so that it spanned across two zig zag columns, then skipped a column, before adding the next one.
This one works as long as your columns space out correctly. If you aren't sure they will, be sure to start at the back of the cake so you can end at the back of the cake in case you spacing doesn't work out.
Striping your bag lends a lot of depth to your creations.
These rosettes were created by striping the bag with white frosting. The small flowers are 4 petal flowers that can be replaced with the 5 petal apple blossom and then adding leaves.
Finish it off with a shell border and you have a stunning wreath cake.
Here's a great example of one that uses the apple blossom flower.
You can substitute the 4 petal flowers for the apple blossom and then where the apple blossoms are replace those with a primrose.
Stars were once again made with the #32 tip and leaves were added.