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Tips and Tricks to Learn to Make an Icing Rose
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- Supplies Needed to Make an Icing Rose
- Decorating Supplies for Sale
- Videos of people making roses
- Buttercream Icing Recipe
- Coloring Your Icing
- Chocolate Buttercream Icing
- Remember,
- Icing Consistency
- Cake Decorating Supplies
- More Cake Decorating Supplies
- Books on the Subject
- More Books on the Subject
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- CafePress items you might like..
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Supplies Needed to Make an Icing Rose
Flower Nail (I like Wilton's #7 Flower Nail)
Decorating Bag
Coupler (in case you want to change tips on your icing bag)
Rose tip (#104 is a good one to start with)
Leaf tip (My favorite is #352 - To put leaves around the rose once on the cake)
Buttercream Icing
Icing Color of your choice
Decorating Supplies for Sale
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Videos of people making roses
I especially like the cream rose video. This is an example of what you can do by striping your icing bag with a second color. I am working on a video of my own to add to the list, it's just not quite ready yet.
"These buttercream recipes hold up well in the heat, so they are perfect for making roses."
Buttercream Icing Recipe
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon Clear Vanilla Extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approx. 1 lb.)
2 tablespoons milk
In large bowl, cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Slowly add sugar while beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using.
YIELD: Makes about 3 cups.
For thin (spreading) consistency icing, add 2 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk.
To make a pure white icing, leave out the butter and substitute an additional 1/2 cup shortening for butter and add 1/2 teaspoon No-Color Butter Flavor. This icing will be stiff. Add up to 4 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk to thin for icing cakes.
Coloring Your Icing
To get true icing colors, make the recipe for the Pure White Icing above. The first recipe using the butter has a yellow tint, so when you add color to it, the colors are not as pure.
Chocolate Buttercream Icing
Ingredients:
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup cocoa or three 1 oz. unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approx. 1 lb.)
3-4 tablespoons milk
Cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add chocolate and vanilla. Slowly add sugar, while beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using.
For a Darker Chocolate Icing: Add an additional 1/4 cup cocoa (or one additional 1 oz. square unsweetened chocolate, melted) and 1 additional tablespoon milk to the recipe.
To make a thin consistency for icing a cake, add 3-4 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk.
Makes about 3 cups of icing.
Remember,
When working with this buttercream icing, be sure to keep your bowl covered with a damp cloth or paper towel. This will keep the icing from getting a dried crust on top, which won't be good for making roses.
Icing Consistency
Your rose petals should be smooth on the ends when you pipe them. If they are cracked or jagged on the ends, then your icing is too thick. Add a little more liquid from the recipe to thin it some more. Add a teaspoon of liquid at a time, so you don't get it too thin, or your roses won't hold up.
Cake Decorating Supplies
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Ateco 14-Piece Cake Decorating Set
Amazon Price: $15.78 (as of 01/04/2010) 
Ateco 14 Piece Cake Decorating Set with Cake Pan
Amazon Price: $24.44 (as of 01/04/2010)
CIA Masters Collection 30 Piece Pastry Decorating Set with Case
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 01/04/2010)
Wilton Cake Icer Decorating Tip
Amazon Price: $2.95 (as of 01/04/2010)
Wilton Master Tip Set
Amazon Price: $36.99 (as of 01/04/2010)
Books on the Subject
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Cake Decorating For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) by Joe LoCicero
Create wedding, shower, holiday, and festive kids' more...0 points
The Icing on the Cake by Shalini Latour
With The Icing on the Cake, beginning cake decorat more...0 points
The Essential Cake Decorating Guide (Thunder Bay Essential Cookbooks)
The Cake Decorating Guide offers hints and notes o more...0 points
Wilton Cake Decorating! (2006 Wilton Yearbook) by Wilton Industries
Wilton Cake Decorating 2006 wilton yearbook. Paper more...0 points
Here are some related items on Zazzle
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Leave your comments here and let me know you visited!
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- Tipi Tipi Nov 3, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
- I love butter cream frosting and beautiful roses.
Best wishes to you,
Susie
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- kab kab Apr 25, 2009 @ 12:34 am
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Sep 13, 2008 @ 7:54 am
- Ah, something that I've never done in my life -- a buttercream rose! I love how to lenses. 5*****
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