Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Rainbow Rose-Frosted Cupcake Tutorial where I'm going
to be showing you how to make this stunning rainbow rose cupcake.
You might have seen on my channel a little while ago, we did some vintage buttercream
roses.
So we did those sort of in pastel colors.
And this is essentially the same technique but I'm going to show you how to do it in
a really kind of a cool, marbly, rainbow effect.
So let's get started.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I've got 2 piping bags.
The more you have, the easier this will be.
But I've got 2 of the rose tip piping nozzle.
So I'm using a Wilton 406 but anything that's got this sort of a slit piping nozzle is perfect.
You'll see it's a little fatter at one end and a little bit thinner at one end.
You want to keep that in mind for when you're piping because you're always going to make
sure that the fatter side is down at the cupcake and the thinner side is up at the top of our
rose leaf.
I've got my frosting.
So you're not going to need a heap of each color because we're only going to be using
a really little bit of each color in each cupcake.
I've got red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, and I sometimes get in trouble for forgetting
purple so I have made sure that I have purple today.
I've got my cupcake, ready to ice.
I've just baked that in a plain white cupcake wrapper today because I think it's really
going to allow the colors to just pop on top of this cupcake.
And I've got a little stack of spoons.
So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to take our cupcake.
And I'm going to show you how to prepare this piping bag.
So taking your piping bag, what you want to do...
Now as I've mentioned, you're going to have the top, the skinnier part of that piping
nozzle, towards the top coming out to the top of the leaf or the petal I should say.
And you're going to have the fatter part down at the cupcake.
So you want to have to think about the colors that you're starting with.
I'm going to start with a combination of pink and purple.
But I want to make sure that I've got less frosting in the top color than I have in the
bottom color.
So for me, purple is going to be the top color.
I'm going to put more pink in there and that's going to allow that pink to peak out and just
a little bit of the ribbon with the purple on top, which gives us that kind of 2-tone
effect.
So taking your spoon, you want to just open up the piping bag.
And keeping an eye on where your top or your bottom of your tip is, I'm going to get mainly
pink, so more of my pink, so just a spoonful, so depending on how many you're going to do.
If you're going to do a dozen of these, I suggest you do all of the centers at once,
then all of the next color at once, then all of the third color and so on just to make
it a little bit easier.
So take your frosting and we're just going to put it.
You can see there, I'm really just putting it on the bottom half of that bag.
And don't try to push it all the way down just yet.
We will do that shortly once we've got both colors in there.
So now I'm just going to take a little bit less of that purple and I'm going to slide
it in.
You can see at the back of my spoon is touching the pink there.
And then I'm going to use my finger just to wipe that purple off with the piping bag.
So what you've got there.
You kind of shake them down a little bit.
What you've got there is quite a bit more pink than what you've got purple.
The purple is closer to this smaller tip or the top of the tip and the pink is closer
to the fatter part of the tip.
So just using your hands now, just push them down and you see I'm sort of pushing them
down together.
Now, the first thing that we're going to do, just to prepare our cupcake, so it doesn't
really matter what color is coming out here, is we're going to...
I always like to hold mine in my hand like this.
So you can see there, I sort of got thin side up, fat side down, and I'm holding it, I guess,
with the fat side towards the palm of my hand and the thin side towards my little finger.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to give it just a bit of a ruffle around and
you'll see it's really just pink at the moment.
So with the other colors, I do always get you to start them until you see both colors
coming through.
But because we're just giving our cupcake just a really nice coat, it doesn't really
matter.
Okay, now we want to do just build up our center a little bit.
So to build up your center, you're just going to sort of do a little bit of a curl.
So see there?
Up it goes, and that just gives us a little bit of a, I guess, a little bit of a mound
to work with.
And what we're going to do here is just tuck it around.
So if you want to see this technique done again, like I said, we've got that Vintage
Rose Cupcake Tutorial.
But I'm going to show you in this one.
So you sort of got 2 tutorials you can refer back to if you're trying to master this up.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to take that piping tip and I'm going to curl it around.
So essentially you're making like a little cone curled inwards, just around that little
mound, and that's going to make that center of our lovely little rose.
Now, to start with the petals, the trick here is in flicking your wrist out.
So as you attach the petal at the actual cupcake, you want to flick your wrist out and sort
of curl it around.
So have a look at that, you've got your pink center, you've got your purple coming out.
Now attach again at the base, nice and close here, attach, and as you squeeze, you're also
turning the cupcake and flicking your wrist.
And you want to just overlap that next petal over the last petal, so quite small few inside
petals and you should do about 5 in there.
Now with your last petal on any layer, you want to make sure that you meet the 2 of them
up, so squeezing, push it over there.
Beautiful.
Now if any of them haven't flicked how you want them to flick, you can just use your
finger and just very very gently flick them out.
And that will just give you a little bit more of an open rose.
Otherwise, you can have a bit of a more closed rose.
But that's the beginnings.
We want to take our next two colors.
To me they're going to be blue and green.
And once again, we're going to take more of the green and a little bit less of the blue.
So I want a fair bit of the green and I'm going to put it down towards the fat side
of my piping tip, and then just a little bit less of that blue.
Blue is quite a dominant color too as is purple so try to have a little bit less of the darker
color so that your lighter colors can peak through without getting overwhelmed.
So just give it a little squeeze out in your ball until you see that blue starting to come
through.
Perfect.
Once again, I'm holding it with my fat side down to my palm and the thin side up to my
finger.
And now I'm just going to start crossing over again.
So wherever there's a join in the petals, we're going to make a new petal, and again.
So each time I do this, I'm attaching the frosting to the actual cupcake that little
pink, I guess, ruffled skirt that we put on there, and flicking it up as I turn the cupcake,
and then re-attaching down.
Beautiful.
So that's your next layer.
Now we're just going to go and wash those bags, come back, and we'll be ready to keep
going.
Alright, so I've washed out my bag, now we're going to come back and we're going to do a
combination of green and yellow here.
So green is going to be my more dominant color and yellow is going to be my less dominant.
You will start to use just a little bit more frosting as you come around the outside petals
just because you're making more petals and they're a little bit larger than you did with
the inside.
We're just going to squeeze it out just to start it off again until we see that little
bit of green coming through.
So we're just going to repeat this with our next layer of petals.
So with this, you can just pipe your different-colored petals without doing the two-colored frosting
and all that sort of stuff in each piping bag.
But the two-colored frosting just looks just a little bit more like a blended rainbow.
My next color combination is going to be yellow and orange and I want yellow to be at the
top and orange to be at the bottom.
And it's a really good idea when you're putting your piping tips in.
Try to have them sort of facing where you've got the seams in the piping bag.
Try to have them facing that same way because then you know that you're just lining up one
color with that seam and one color with that seam.
So that orange will be our other color in this bag and then pushing them down.
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Addiction.
We've got a whole lot of great cupcake and cakepop tutorials, and we have a whole playlist
dedicated just for rainbow food.
I love it that much.
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Now with this yellow and orange layer, you can see I'm actually doing slightly smaller
petals.
And that's just going to be to kind of hold everything in, hold everything together because
if you just keep getting bigger and bigger as you go out, it actually becomes almost
impossible to make the petals and they start to droop.
So I'm just taking down the size of them a little bit, once again just looking at the
wrist and joining up that last one.
So if you want, you can give it just a couple of little taps on the bench and that just
lets them fan out a little bit more.
Alright, now coming back for our last 2 colors, so the second last color is going to be a
combination still of the orange and the red.
So you want to take your bag and we're just going to do the...
The top color is going to be orange.
I'm just going to turn that over because I'm right-handed.
It makes it a little bit easier.
And we're going to spoon in a little bit of that orange and then a little bit more of
that red.
Push those ones down.
And we're going to come around, once again in about a similar size petal.
So starting to get towards the outside of my cupcake there and I'm just making sure
that I'm still attaching at the frosting, tucking in, and always always overlapping
the join of the petals before.
It just helps to hold them all together and that's how a rose naturally forms.
So [until] you want to keep it going.
My suggestion for perfecting this technique is to take one cupcake and one color frosting
and just have a practice with the actual technique before you go getting all the colors.
With the technique, pipe it, wipe it, pipe it, wipe it.
So call it almost like a sacrificial cupcake but just pipe and pipe and pipe until you're
happy because you will come to a point where that technique is just second nature to you
and you're not even going to think about it.
For my last color here, I'm going to use mainly red.
So I want red to be my dominant color at the top with just a little bit of orange down
the bottom, as you might have guessed.
Beautiful.
And this is going to be finish off.
So for your outer layer, you want to make sure that you're really coming quite a bit
smaller on those last [let] of petals.
So what you're going to do is you're just going to come in nice and tight and nice and
small.
And this is just going to sort of close everything up, hold it all together nicely and just give
you your last little petals around the edge and that lovely puff of red that finishes
off our rainbow beautifully.
Now the buttercream frosting recipe that I've used today, I've used our My Cupcake Addiction
buttercream frosting.
But when I know that I'm going to be doing something like this, which is going to require,
I guess a little bit more firmness, I always eliminate the milk component completely from
that buttercream frosting and then I just add in just a tiny bit at a time so I end
up with a really really firm frosting.
I never add all of the milk because that's going to give you a softer frosting which
is great for your bigger swirls and for your traditional cupcake swirls.
But whenever you're doing piping like this -- flowers, piping roses -- you really want
to have a nice firm buttercream frosting.
So now I'm looking at that and I'm just going to turn it around while looking sort of at
the top of it and just saves it anywhere that I think I might need a couple more petals.
So that completes your gorgeous rainbow rose.
I hope that you guys love this rainbow rose cupcakes, another addition to the Cupcake
Addiction rainbow food playlist.
As I said, we've got so many great rainbow ideas on our channel, as well as ideas for
everything cake, cupcake and cakepop.
But I hope that this one will become one of your favorites.
Thanks very much for tuning in to My Cupcake Addiction.