Decorative Buttercream Flowers for Cake Design

Meet Kate Kim and learn about her career as a baking instructor. Discover where she finds inspiration for her flower cakes before seeing what you’ll learn in the course.

Get familiar with your piping tools and see how to create a color scheme for your cake, based on a cake order brief. Look at the size, color theme, and other requested elements to decide on the design of your cake.

Create your buttercream following Kate’s expert tips, before learning how to mix food colorings together for the perfect pigment. Then, see how to use the piping tools, how to hold a piping bag, and how to work with the flower nail.

Begin your piping adventure by learning how to create perfectly round dots. Then see how to create roses and rosebuds and apply each petal step by step. Learn how to pipe apple blossoms and leaves to give a more realistic look to your cake, before seeing how to create a crescent-style arrangement.

Next, create icing for the base of your cake and understand how to work with mistakes along the way. Learn how to arrange your flowers in different styles such as bouquet and wreath designs. Kate shows you how to apply your newfound skills to cupcake designs before sharing some final tips on how to package your delicious creations.