How to Make a Rose With Cake Icing

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Pin ItArticle EditDiscussRose flowers are a beautiful decoration to work with when decorating a cake. While they look complicated when you see piped roses in bakeries, piping a rose onto a cake is simpler than it may seem. This basic tutorial will introduce you to the world of icing art, with a simple style of rose to make at home.

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Preparing the Icing1Fill the piping bag with your colored royal icing. Add the rose tip to the bag before filling.

If you don't have royal icing, read the article on making royal icing.Note that when piping, it is good to put the icing bag in your dominant hand; this way you'll get the best motor control over the piping.

Piping the Rose1Prepare the rose nail. Pipe a small amount of icing onto the top of the rose nail, and then press a small square of wax paper onto the icing, using the icing to hold the paper and nail together.

2Make the rose's center. Place the tip of the pastry bag with the rose tip onto the rose nail, with the wide end touching the wax paper. Spin the nail in a full circle to make a cone shape. You will need to synchronize your hand movements so that you're moving as fast as the icing is coming out.

3Make the first layer of petals around the cone. Make each petal a little bit higher than the center, and make each third the circumference of the rose center, so that you can have three petals total.

4Make the second layer of petals. This layer will have five petals total. Keep on making the petals higher than the others so that they arc upwards and outwards. Also, try to overlap the petals to make them look natural.

5Make the final layer of petals. This one should consist of about seven evenly spaced petals. If you want a larger rose, you can continue to add layers.

Using the Icing Rose1Carefully slide the rose and the wax paper off the nail. Then, put it on a baking sheet or other flat surface. Give it 24 hours to harden.

2Finished. It can now be added to a cake or other baked good as decoration.

Edit TipsMake sure to color the icing your desired color before putting it in the pastry bag.Try to make the next layer of petals a little bit higher than the previous, with the ends of the roses arcing outwards.There are other ways to make roses with icing; this is one way that is straightforward and easily learned by novice cake decorators.

Edit WarningsTake care not to poke yourself with the rose nail.Don't make the rose so big that it falls off the wax paper.

Edit Things You'll NeedA pastry bag and couplerA batch of frosting (preferably royal icing)A large rose tipA rose nailSmall squares of wax paper

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Edit Sources and Citationshttp://candy.about.com/od/candybasics/ss/frosting_rose.htm – research sourceArticle Info

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