How to Make a Sugar Flower Chrysanthemum (Mum) for your Cupcakes and Cakes

There are many ways to decorate a cupcake : Candies, sprinkles, decorative sugars, marshmallows, molded fondant...or sugar flowers.
You can make sugar flowers with fondant, buttercream icing, marzipan (almond paste) or royal icing.

These are some of the buttercream icing flowers we made for the Teacher Appreciation luncheon, for the end of the school year. I am looking forward to summer, how about you? The fun yellowy-orange shade of each floret reminds me of a garden bursting into bloom! 

Step 1 Materials and Ingredients

Materials:
Tips: #5 and #81 (Master Tip Set)

Icing color: Your choice (I chose a yellowy orange color, I mixed the shade by hand)
Petal Guide (you can print the one I have posted)
Prepared Flower Nail (attach wax paper square with petal guide underneath)

Ingredients:
Buttercream icing, medium consistency, in your choice of color

These are pretty standard items for cake decorators. Don't rush out and buy a cake decorating set unless you honestly and truly plan on decorating a LOT of baked goods.

Comments

[cconnor1]

wow,nice!