Day 350: Buttercream Flower Cake (2024)

FAQs

What is the best buttercream for buttercream flowers? ›

I found American buttercream to work the best. Not only is it a breeze to make, it pipes with ease and sets beautifully. It's sturdy, giving you control over your shapes. It's also forgiving.

Always use edible flowers (think safety first). Avoid any that are toxic as you need to consider the flowers coming into contact with the icing and cake. After choosing the flowers google them first just to check they are edible before using.

Freeze for ease: To easily transfer flowers, pipe them onto a square of parchment paper and then freeze them for 10-15 minutes. Once they are firm and frozen, you can easily peel your flowers off the parchment paper and place them onto your baked item.

But generally speaking, you can prepare a cake with buttercream frosting up to three days beforehand. You can freeze the cake if you need to prepare it further in advance. Cakes with buttercream icing should be wrapped tightly in plastic wrap first, followed by aluminium foil, before freezing.

Ideally, make an iced cake on the day to keep it fresh. Refrigerated: Your cakes will last longer in the fridge, but for an event, you won't want to push it longer than about 3 days.

Both Swiss Meringue Buttercream and Italian Meringue Buttercream are commonly used by professional bakers, with Swiss meringue being slightly more popular. Both these buttercreams are made by whipping granulated sugar and egg whites into a meringue and then whipping butter into that meringue.

To make your buttercream stiff consistency, prepare the vanilla buttercream frosting recipe as directed. This should result in stiff consistency buttercream. However, if your buttercream isn't stiff enough, gradually add more powdered sugar, about 1 tablespoon at a time, until your frosting is thick but still pipeable.

"Swiss meringue buttercream is surprisingly very stable," Benner said. "It holds up very well; although I prefer to refrigerate before transportation." The biggest difference between the two types of wedding cake icing is the addition of egg whites in the Swiss meringue, which allows it to endure those warmer temps.

Royal icing is typically the best for this option because it will dry hard and peel off the parchment paper. Buttercream roses tend to stick and get deformed when using this method.

Fresh flowers look beautiful on a cake for eight hours in a fridge, and remain fresh for a few hours outside of the refrigerator. Flowers will last longest if bakers have kept them in water until the last minute, and the cake is kept in the fridge at the same time.

Can you put sugar flowers on buttercream cake? ›

Sugar flowers work perfectly on your buttercream cake design.

Pipe the buttercream florals, freeze them, then stick the flowers wherever you want on the cake! They'll stay on as long as you press them into the cake with a little dot of buttercream, and you won't have to ruin your buttercream underneath if you need to adjust the flowers!

So how do you store the buttercream flowers, and how long will they last? Buttercream flowers should be stored in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer. In the fridge, buttercream flowers will last for at least a week. In the freezer, buttercream flowers will last for several months.

Reserve about 1/2 a cup of the buttercream and mix it with more confectioners sugar in a bowl until you get a thicker playdough-like consistency. For each flower you'll form a cone with this thick buttercream to act as the base. If you don't have this cone-shaped base your flower will look flat and unrealistic.

The great thing about buttercream frosting is that you can make it up to 3 months in advance. With these simple tips and tricks, you'll learn how to properly store buttercream frosting so you always have it on hand when you need it! Looking for a great buttercream recipe to get you started?

If you're going to freeze it, you can decorate it a couple weeks ahead if it's well-protected. If you're only going to refrigerate it (covered), I'd say 3–4 days max. If it's going to remain at room temperature (but covered), no more than 2 days.

Make your transfer the day you are decorating or up to a week in advance and store it in the freezer.

How long do royal icing flowers last? They can be made 6 months in advance, as long as you store properly away from sunlight and moisture at room temperature. It's a good idea to make lots of them in advance. This way, you will always have flowers for decorating last minute party desserts.