Video: How to frost a rose on a cupcake
You’ll find the recipe for the cupcakes, frosting, and all the information you need to replicate these rose frosted cupcakes.
I love the pretty pink color and the smooth texture of this frosting, pink frosting is by far my favorite color, but luckily you can make your rose cupcakes in any color you would like, beige and cream color frosting really look pretty on cupcakes as well.
Remember just a little color goes a long way!
Be sure to take a look at the how-to video I made so that you could easily replicate these cupcakes with rose frosting yourself. It will help you master these beauties!
One of my favorite memories as a kid is pink frosting. It’s funny how memories can linger on forever!
My mom made me a cake with pink frosting for one of my birthdays.
WOW was it pretty…
I remember every detail! I remember watching her pipe the edges and I appreciated the time it took her to make my cake so pretty.
I was all about PINK then (my whole room was pink including the carpet) and some things haven’t changed. My favorite color frosting is still pink.
Rose frosting looks good in so many colors you’ll have to give your favorite color a try and looks great on vanilla cupcakes or chocolate cupcakes! The recipe for this smooth silky American Buttercream Frosting is in the recipe card below.
If you like pink frosting don’t miss seeing this Pink Coconut Cake and my Fruity Pebbles Cake and these adorable Russian Rose Cupcakes, these have tiny roses all over them!
There is a lot of info in this post, including the recipes for my creamy buttercream frosting as well as cupcake recipes, tips tricks, and how-to. I’ve also updated this post with my cupcake guide, so be sure to check it all out!
My top 3 must-have cupcake baking items:
- THIS is my favorite cupcake pan
- THESE are my favorite cupcake liners
- THESE are the piping bags I use
One of the best things about frosting cupcakes in pretty roses (or rosettes) is that it only takes a few seconds to frost each cupcake and once you get the hang of it you’ll be surprised how quickly you can a whole batch of cupcakes.
When you have a whole tray of cupcakes in front of you, with a few practice swirls you will be frosting roses in no time at all.
There are many reasons why these cupcakes are my all-time favorite, I love chocolate cupcakes and pink frosting the contrast in colors is so pretty.
The dark liners on the cupcakes give them a really nice finished look. I like these Dark Brown Liners.
If you bake (or craft) a lot and often run out of counter space try THIS, rack it’s a real space saver I use it all the time for cookies, cupcakes, and even when we work when putting together puzzles, I spread out puzzle pieces onto baking sheets and stack them up to see everything easily!
Here is a great set of piping bags along with piping tips.
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A few tips when frosting these cupcakes:
- practice on a piece of wax paper or the bottom of a cupcake pan, so you can scrape off the frosting and place it back into your frosting bowl and use it when you ar frosting your cupcakes. If the frosting gets warm from practicing, place it in the fridge for 5 minutes, you don’t want it cold, but you don’t want it warm either.
- keep a damp towel nearby so you can wipe off the piping tip if it gets messy, don’t start piping if it’s already messy, it will only get worse as you pipe on the cupcakes
- start in the same position of each cupcake, don’t reach over cupcake you’ll be more likely to mess them up. Move the tray of cupcakes or move your body so you’re in front of what you are doing. If your kitchen counter is too high, try your table.
- you don’t need to pick up each cupcake, yes I do that in my video, so you can see what I’m doing. It is easier to place all the cupcakes on a baking sheet and pipe them that way. This method also avoids you handling each one after it’s piped.
- If you do mess up on frosting a cupcake, don’t worry, just swirl it smooth with a spatula and add some sprinkles. Having some difference in a whole tray of cupcakes often adds interest and who doesn’t love some fun sprinkles!
This is one of my favorite cakes, it’s not only pretty it tastes AMAZING! There are different varieties of vanilla and it got RAVE reviews when I served it at a wedding!
- When piping roses on a cake, you can either pipe them all flat, in a grid and even overlap them slightly or you can pipe them as I did, like in a bunch, the way you would see a grouping of roses in a vase, just reposition your hand so it’s at a different angle when piping and move around the cake when piping so it’s not in a specific pattern.
- If there is a space where there is no rose and really not enough room to add one, just squeeze the frosting to create a dollop to fill in any open areas.
- Take a look at the entire post here: Vanilla Wedding Cake
These red, white, and blue cupcakes are fun and pretty.
Just take a box of white cake mix (or use this recipe for white cake) and separate the batter into three bowls and tint one red and one blue, leaving the third white.
Place the batter into plastic bags to make filling the cupcake pan easy and layer the batter in the cupcake pan, baking according to directions and allow the cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Classic white frosting looks great on these as well.
If you want your frosting bright white, you can add some White Food Coloring, it works great!
To create the tri-color frosting:
In one piping bag, from the tip to the end of the bag place each color of frosting carefully not to swirl them,
but keep them in lines do the red and blue on each outside edge and put white in the middle,
they will swirl when you pipe them and look great!
Alternately you can place the frosting on a piece of plastic wrap in lines and then gently roll the plastic wrap into a log and insert it into a piping bag. Then add on the piping tip and you’re all set to decorate the cupcakes.
Click to see the video: How to Frost a Rose Cupcake
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The most often asked questions on frosting rose cupcakes:
- What piping tip do you use: 2D piping tip…. (if you like seeing more of my favorite items look HERE)
- Can I use another tip: yes, but the roses will look different. The 2D tip is a curved star tip with 6 prongs. You can PURCHASE the tip HERE
This is the “nozzle” used to pipe the rose cupcakes, I find people searching for what piping tip to use to frost rose cupcakes, and what piping tip to use to frost rose cupcakes, and buttercream rose nozzle to find out what tip to use. It’s the 2D tip!
- What recipe do you use for your frosting: the recipe is below as is easy to print, it provides creamy frosting perfect for piping onto cakes and cupcakes.
- Where is your Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe HERE just click here to print.
Here is my Small Batch Chocolate Cupcake Recipe (6 cupcakes) - You’ll find my Vanilla Cupcake Recipe HERE
Small Batch Vanilla Cupcake Recipe (6 cupcakes) - And my favorite Italian Buttercream Frosting Recipe HERE: this frosting is not as sweet as “American” buttercream, it’s my favorite tasting frosting, it’s a softer frosting so it’s not the best if you plan on serving them outside in the summer. Otherwise, if you are an intermediate baker, this frosting is a must. It’s not a beginner frosting, you’ll need a candy thermometer, you’ll be whipping eggs, and also making syrup. But it’s so yummy and worth learning.
I also have a fun recipe for chocolate red-wine cupcakes that you could frost with a rose on top for a delicious and elegant dessert.
CHECK OUT my guide to CUPCAKES: frosting, tips, and tricks
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THIS is my favorite cupcake pan it bakes cupcakes nice and evenly without overcooking/browning them.
THESE are my favorite cupcake liners, they are greaseproof and look so pretty on cupcakes.
I use THESE piping bags and love them.
Below you’ll find the frosting recipe I used to make these cupcakes.
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Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter if making it in hot weather use vegetable shortening
- 4-6 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Beat butter until smooth add powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy cream.
- Mix until smooth and creamy.
- If it’s HOT outside and I don’t want the 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 very white frosting, use all shortening, and add a few drops of Americolor white food coloring or a tiny drop of lavender/purple food coloring to offset the yellow in the butter to make it bright white.
Notes
Crisco tends to be heavy and thick,
Walmart’s store brand is light and fluffy.
There are also differences in butter, some stay thick and some are softer when whipped.
All these differences will affect the final outcome of your frosting.
I often make the frosting a day ahead of time along with the cupcakes, but pipe the frosting the day I’m serving the cupcakes.
And if you like baking cookies, I have lots of tips, recipes, and info to share on cookies too…
Those look lovely!! Can’t wait for my online purchase of icing tips to arrive so I can try this =)
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. https://www.createdby-diane.com/2011/01/hot-fudge-sundae-cupcakes.html
You are the cupcake queen Diane! Love the video – makes it look so easy!
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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.
https://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 https://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.
Love, love, love these!!! Can’t wait to try and make them. I am your newest fan here!
Thanks so much for this wonderful idea. I am trying this for my parents 55th Anniversary. I’ll let you know how it goes!
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…
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.
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.
What tip do you use to make these roses?
I use a 2D tip for the rose cupcakes
Great video, Diane! Love how easy that looks.
I absolutely LOVE the rose cupcake. So awesome.
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!
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