Hey guys, it's Beth from Wilton. We get tons of request to show you how to
pipe buttercream flowers so here's the deal we're gonna do a new series where
every month we show you a brand new buttercream flower that will be able to
build up your arsenal of how many flowers you can pipe out of buttercream
gonna start today by showing you the chrysanthemum if you didn't know mum is
chrysanthemum for short and it's a lot easier to say mum so that's what I'm
gonna say from now on. What we're gonna do to start is color some of our icing.
I'm going to use the autumn palette from Color Right I'm gonna do a really pretty golden yellow
color so I'm going to use yellow and orange and I need three drops of orange
and I need eight drops of yellow so adding that orange to my yellow is really
going to give it that golden tint, perfect now we just stir it altogether I'm using a
stiff consistency buttercream here which is going to be really important to your
piping success so that your mum petals will actually stand up and curl outwards
at the very ends make sure you use stiff consistency once your colors completely
incorporated we can put it into a decorating bag and I'm going to use a
coupler for this because we're going to use two different tips to pipe our mum
we're going to use a number five round and I'm going to use our tip 81 which
actually looks like a little smile
it's got a curve. I 'm going to use a coupler, so I only have to use one decorating bag.
go ahead and fit your bag with our coupler and the tip 5 goes onto
the bag first
when you fill your decorating bag only fill it between a quarter and a half
full
no more than that because you don't want your stiff consistency icing to get
too warm as your piping or it will get too soft, so don't overfill your bags when
you have your bag fitted with your tip 5 you're ready to pipe we're going to use
a flower nail to make our chrysanthemum this is known as off cake decorating
basically we are going to create all of our decorations off of our cake and then put
them onto the cake so that we're not trying to pipe something directly onto
the cake would be really really hard to pipe a mum onto a cake with this you get
a nice little surface that you can manipulate and turn to make a really
pretty mum lots of flowers use the flower nail but we need to do first is give
a little tiny dot of ice thing here that's going to give our parchment
square something to stick so it doesn't move around on us and you can either buy these
pre cut or cut them yourself makes no difference. Now we're
going to hold our bag at a 90 degree angle to the surface about a quarter
inch above it we're going to squeeze out a mound by saying about five eighths
of an inch in diameter and then just circle to shave off any point you wanted
to be nice and round and flat like the size of the mound that you pipe is going
to determine the size of your mum overall if your bases bigger than this
your whole mum will be bigger if it's smaller you get a little tiny
little mum so that's all we need the tip 5 for, we're gonna change out to our tip 81
the smile tip
and then with the smile facing the point of the smile facing down so like a
smile going to hold the bag at a 45 degree angle and actually shove it just
slightly into the mound we just piped rotate the nail after your first petal and then
apply pressure pull bag outwards as you come up and start to release the
pressure bring the bag up just slightly that's what's going to help cup your petal
upwards you just rotated slightly and continue to do the petals all the way
around at the base of the mound we might want to make sure to keep them
about the same length of pressure control is important and again bringing
the bag up and slightly away as you release the pressure so at this point it
kind of looks like a little sun now we're going to repeat with our second
row of above our petals we want them to nest inside each other so we're gonna pipe
kind of in between where first row is we're going to hold the bag ever so
slightly higher so the petals come a little bit further up you want them to
be just a little bit shorter than the first row so here we go
same motion just a little bit higher and a little bit shorter
all the way around the base and that smile shape really gives you a nice cup
to the pedal without much work at all just keep going all the way up the mum
doing more rows petals that are slightly higher and slightly shorter until it's
completely filled in and you can see once you get to the top center your kind of
holding the bag pretty much up right at that point
ninety degrees and there you have it that's how easy it is to pipe a
chrysanthemum know when you're making flowers out of buttercream you go ahead
and freeze it and your parchement square where that's why we bulit onto parchment so
that we can lift it right off our flower nail so we can put it into the freezer
to get hard once it's harden and we can peel it right off that paper and put it
onto our cake or cupcake or anything like that
gonna take between five and 15 minutes depending on the size of your flowers so
you will know that they're ready when you touch them and they are completely
firm mums grow and lots of different colors so I'm going to make some reds ones
also this is the red color from the autumn palette from the Color Right
formulas as well and I'm just gonna do the exact same thing I did with my
golden yellow. So when you pipe flowers out of buttercream you're going to chill them to get them
off of the parchment squares so that you can easily put them onto your cake
cupcake cookie or whatever your doctor rating the chill times going to vary
depending on how big your flower as a plan for at least five minute all the
way up to 15 or 20 depending on how big they are they're really big it's gonna
take longer I'm just gonna go ahead and pop these in the freezer now there are
flowers have chilled we can take them off off the paper and it's really easily transfer
them to our cupcakes
you can do these cupcakes or cookies cakes obviously really anything that you
want and you can see how easily they come off of the parchment when they're
cold you can really handle them easily you can either put one right in the
center or you can do a pretty cluster that's kind of why I like you in
different colors you can really have a lot of fun with these flowers they come
in different sizes
and as long as they're called you can you can handle them very very easily so
there you have it the lovely piped mum leave me a comment below and let me know
which flowers you want to learn to pipe because we will do a new one every
single month but if you really can't want a whole bunch of flowers right now
all at once check out my Craftsy to class Piped Flowers they're done and royal
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new flower