How to Make Buttercream Flowers {Tutorial Video}

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I have been posting quite a few of my daughter’s decorated gluten free desserts on the blog and today we wanted to do something different. We want to teach you how to make the buttercream flowers in the Gluten Free Pink Lemonade Cupcakes recipe on my blog.

You can use any frosting you like, or use the fun pink lemonade buttercream I mention above!! Any type of frosting works in piping flowers.

Here are some delicious frosting recipes to practice making frosting flowers with:

• Chocolate Cupcakes with a Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
• Gluten Free Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Gluten Free Lemon Curd Filled Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream Frosting
• Gluten Free Mocha Cupcakes with Mocha Buttercream Frosting

Tools you need for piping flowers:

For the frosting, you will need a combination of powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and water or cream

The first thing you will need to make this frosting flower design is this Wilton decorating tip. If you don’t have frosting bags, you will need those too.

It is so easy to make flowers for cakes and cupcakes!!”

How to Make Buttercream Flowers:

• The first step is to take your frosting bag and insert the tip.
• Use scissors to snip the end of the frosting bag off.
• Fill your frosting bag and twist the end to squeeze the frosting towards the tip.
• Grab a cupcake and use the frosting tip to draw large “U” shapes circling all along the outer edge of the cupcake.
• Once you complete a ring of “U”  shapes around the outer edge, repeat this process starting from the middle of the cupcake. 
• You want the “U” shapes to overlap a bit over the beginning of the “U” in the outer ring as flower petals do.
• Repeat this process one last time from the center of the cupcake.
• Dot frosting in the middle to finish the flower. You can also use an M&M  or candy for the center of the flower.

You can see this process more in the video.

Here is a top view of the flower when it is complete.

You can even top your flowers with these super cute White Chocolate Dragonflies. 

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