These are by far my favorite cupcakes
Here is my first video on how to recreate them:
The link will take you to YouTube to view it. How to frost a rose cupcake video
Please do not use the image of my cupcakes without giving proper credit. We all learned in grade school, don’t take things that belong to others. I was shocked and surprised to see a local bakery use my photograph for my cupcakes on their Ad Campaign. It’s not flattering to see my work stolen.
I create recipes and ideas and I’d love for you to make them for yourself. Images and recipes are copyrighted, it’s wrong to steal them.
Here is the link to the video I created. It’s on you tube.
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Buttercream Frosting Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Beat butter until smooth add powdered sugar, vanilla, heavy cream.
- Mix until smooth and creamy.
- If it’s HOT outside and I don’t want to icing to flop I either mix 1/2 butter 1/2 shortening or all shortening.
- Adjust powdered sugar if you add a lot of food coloring or extracts.
- For WHITE frosting, use all shortening, and add a few drops of Americolor white food coloring.
Here is another video I did showing the cupcakes with the PINK frosting.
I used buttercream frosting with a 2D tip
More great cupcake and frosting ideas
You may even like these Rose Meringue Cookies
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You are so cute Diane! I love this. You should do more of these for the cooking-impaired like me
xoxo
Jen
Your vlog *debut* was great as was the lead-in to it. Looking forward to more
This was great. I have a few cake decorating tools, but have no idea to use them. I would love to be able to frost like you! Keep the videos coming.
I love this! I am so glad you posted this!!
This is great Diane! I have been wanting to know how to do your beautiful rose cupckes. You make it look so easy. I think your voice sounds really nice and you look very pretty:) I always hate the way I sound in videos, though, too. I sound very nasally and have a bit of a Boston accent..not good..lol
I think that was great! What I took from your video was that I should be frosting the cupcakes while they're in my hand, rather than while they're on the table. It made all the difference in the "flow" of the rose. Simple to some, but for whatever reason it hadn't occurred to me to do that! thanks, Diane
Thank you for the video!! You make it look so simple and I'm excited to try it!
Thanks again!
Love the video and agree that seeing something like this is key as opposed to reading about it. Thanks for sharing with us!
You made it looks so easy…but I know I'm going to mess this up! LOL But thanks for the video. Much better than a thousand words!
Great video for making that perfect rose!
Those are so pretty I thought they were made of material at first. Watched your video and you make it look so easy.
mickey
Looks awesome! I wish I'd known it was so easy
I am soooo glad that a link from the Idea Room led me here! I have seen the roses done in the same way on youtube but your roses are the only one's that I have seen done with the 2D tip and they are gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Hi Diane,
Made your icing roses last night on cupcakes for a bridal shower I'm having this weekend. Very pretty and after a little practice, very simple!!! Thanks for the helpful video. Love your blog!
Susan
Omg! Thaaaaaank u soooo much for this!! Your video was great and I love how easy and fast your technique is! How did you get two tone in your bag? Mine all mixed together into a big mess of a new color! Thaaanks! Also would love your buttercream recipe, if u have a good one. Thanks again! Will definitely look for more of ur videos!
I just swiped each colol on the opposite sides od the piping bag, leaving the center to mix together on it’s own. The buttercream recipe I use is 1 cup butter to 4 or 5 cups powdered sugar with 2-3 tablespoons milk and a teaspoon vanilla. For white frosting use shortening and clear vanilla. If it’s hot when you make frosting or you think it will be too soft just use shortenin, sometimes I use half butter half shortening, depends on how I want it to taste and the weather:) hope that helps let me know if you need more info. -Diane
Beautiful cupcakes and great tips!
I can’t pipe for the life of me!
Thank you for doing this… I will most definitely follow your instructions!
Hi Diane would you share your frosting recipe you used yo create the lovely rose design? I just looks so perfect and smooth!
Thanks
Hi Diane,
Your roses are so lovely! For the frosting, do you use salted or unsalted butter? Thanks!
I typically use salted as I am like the contrast in flavor, but I’ve used unsalted and it’s very delicious too
Diane, I made your cupcakes for Valentines. Your tutorial was a great help. I have linked your tutorial to my post which will go live on Monday if you would like to see it. Thanks so much!
sounds great! Can’t wait to see your cupcakes
~Diane
Diane, I can’t even begin to tell you how helpful your rose frosting video was! i have been a bit nervous to frost my own cupcakes using piping tips, but you’ve given me the confidence! so very thankful i found this
That is so great, I’m so glad you made them!
I absolutely LOVE the rose cupcake. So awesome.
Great video, Diane! Love how easy that looks.
What tip do you use to make these roses?
I use a 2D tip for the rose cupcakes
Diane- I am eager to try your roses for a baby shower this weekend! You mentioned that I should use shortening for the icing if the weather is hot. How much? Do you just substitute it for the amount you would have used for the butter? Also have you ever used butter flavor shortening? Curious.
Hi Esther,
Yes substitute equal parts shortening for butter. You can do 1/2 butter 1/2 shortening, or all shortening.
I do not like the taste of butter flavor shortening and it’s very yellow, so if you need white or a light color the yellow will effect it. You can certainly add extracts to give a different flavor, lemon, orange, almond, raspberry, mint. The possibilities are endless there.
It looks easy, and I would like to have a go at it myself, but I would have liked to have seen what type of nozzle you were using to do this.
Hi Diane! I agree with your statement about someone or somebody will grab/steal your photo without any permission, it’s good that now we can water mark photos
Thanks for sharing your techniques and recipes…
Thanks so much for this wonderful idea. I am trying this for my parents 55th Anniversary. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Love, love, love these!!! Can’t wait to try and make them. I am your newest fan here!
I loved your video, thank you. I have to ask you about butter cream mine after its done you can feel the icing sugar still crunchy and i used different types ,and its the the same .is it normal to feel it?
no the sugar should not be gritty, are you using powdered/confectioners sugar? it’s sounds like you’re using granulated sugar. Powdered sugar is super fine and fluffy. If when you are making it the icing is on the dry side add a bit of heavy cream, 1 teaspoon, not to much or it will become soupy. Let me know what kind of sugar you are using and we’ll try to problem solve and find out what is going wrong. Are you mixing it with a mixer? Is the butter at room temperature?
hello again, the sugar i use is icing sugar ,i even sometimes grind it myself to make sure sugar is fine, ,and butter at room temperature, and i use a mixer ,well sugar is not gritty but you can feel it , little crunchy which i don’t like it ,i wish you can help me with this matter, thank you
I consider icing sugar to be the same as powdered sugar and it has the same consistency as powder not gritty at all and would melt on your tongue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_sugar
If that is the type of icing sugar you are using and you still feel you are getting a gritty texture, you could add a bit more heavy cream to it.
Another option is a different frosting. Italian Buttercream is a buttery type of frosting, less sweet and silky smooth. Here is my post on Italian Buttercream http://www.createdby-diane.com/2012/12/how-to-make-italian-buttercream-frosting.html
If you’d like more help, please let me know. You could reduce the amount of sugar you are using and see if that helps. I am thinking it’s the type of sugar. I linked to a photo of powdered sugar.
The Italian Buttercream Frosting may be the way to go
Hope that is somewhat helpful.
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You are the cupcake queen Diane! Love the video – makes it look so easy!
Can you do the rose technique with a chocolate ganache? I want to make this espresso cupcake with a dark chocolate ganache, but the only way to make it pretty is to put the ganache on nice. I wanted to decorate it, but with it being so dark, I am finding a hard way to without adding another flavor component.
no chocolate ganache won’t work in a piping bag. Here is a cupcakes I made with ganache, then added frosting on top of. Maybe this is what you wre looking for. You could pipe the frosting on top of the ganache like a rose. http://www.createdby-diane.com/2011/01/hot-fudge-sundae-cupcakes.html
Those look lovely!! Can’t wait for my online purchase of icing tips to arrive so I can try this =)