- Hey bakers, today I'm gonna show you how to use
Russian piping tips to make buttercream flowers.
These piping tips are, first of all, giant,
but they also pipe things en masse.
No need to worry about individual petals,
it'll pipe the whole flower at once.
This is the first time I'm using them,
so I thought it'll be fun to do a tutorial
and learn with you.
Okay, let's get started.
There are tons of Russian piping tips
and there's actually a whole separate variety
called Balloon Tips;
those are the kind that I wanna try next.
But these jumbo, mega piping tips,
will do almost anything you can imagine,
from piping flowers to sets of petals,
to nice patterns you can use to decorate cakes.
Let's choose a few that look more interesting.
This guy seems kinda fun,
this will be like a cool rose.
I wanna do some flowers so we're gonna make that happen.
I'll start with these and we'll see how it goes.
Into the box.
All right, these are the most moist and delicious
vanilla cupcakes you've ever had.
Click up here if you wanna make a batch
but today's all about decorating,
and what I'll be decorating with is my
Swiss meringue buttercream.
You can click up here for that.
It is just the best type of buttercream for decorating
because it is silky smooth, razor sharp, and pretty stable.
Something to remember about any meringue based buttercream
is that it will lose consistency completely
if you let it hang out for a bit.
But don't let that dissuade you,
all you have to do is give it a really quick
30 second whip, and it comes back to life in an instant.
A little bit of buttercream for everybody.
So Russian piping tips are really cool
because you just like pipe a whole entire flower,
but the thing is that you have to have
a nicely colored flower.
You're in charge of the color,
so you gotta do a good job,
and they look best when you're using multiple colors.
So, open my box of crayons (chuckles),
and choose some colors.
I think we'll have a little bit of green for the leaves,
ooo coral, that's nice,
and maybe like a sherbetty orange, soft pink,
and yellow; that's a good starting point.
We could also do some purple.
If you don't like using food coloring,
there's tons of different alternatives
so instead of green dye,
you could add in a little bit of green matcha powder,
and that'll give you like a really nice soft pastel color,
but in the mean time, you can see,
just that couple seconds of whipping
and it's nice and silky now.
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Did I mention how huge these piping tips are?
This is a Russian piping tip,
this is like a regular medium tip,
so you can see you're gonna have to snip
a much bigger hole.
Don't worry about filling this up with a ton
of buttercream, you don't wanna do that actually.
Pop it in there, let's take a look.
Push it on through.
There we go, nice.
Okay so, filling these is gonna be something
you wanna pay attention to.
Pop it into a glass, that'll be the easiest way, and now,
choose like probably the darker color.
Here I'll choose a pink,
and just paint the inside of the piping bag
with that buttercream.
So now we're gonna fill it up with a lighter shade of pink
so we get a nice gradient.
That is the neatest filling job I've ever done.
All right, so twist it shut,
just remove any air gaps you have in there.
These are gonna have really pretty flowers,
but I'm gonna pipe some leaves in there
to fill in the gaps because I don't wanna have
blank spaces on my cupcakes.
I'm using a 352 tip which is a like a larger leaf tip.
All right, now let's add a little bit of green buttercream
into that piping bag with the leaf tip,
and we're ready to go.
To get the cupcake started,
I'm adding a really thin layer of buttercream
onto the surface.
This is just gonna help all those little flowers
and leaves stick.
When you're using this really soft buttercreams,
which you need for Russian piping tips,
things can get a little bit messy, so,
start hovering just above the cupcake,
squeeze the buttercream out,
and once it makes contact with the cupcake,
you're gonna keep squeezing while you pull up,
until you get the desired height.
Then, stop squeezing but keep pulling, and that's it.
Repeat the process over, and over, and over again,
until the cupcake is completely covered,
or as covered as you want it to be.
It's your cupcake and you can do whatever you like.
Okay, now it's time to add our leaves on
with our leaf piping tip.
You can add as many leaves or as few as you want.
They don't have to be green,
you could add purple leaves in;
it's totally up to you.
Next we have this piping tip
which is gonna make like a tulip shape,
so definitely gonna have to have
the yellow buttercream in there.
So once again, we're gonna coat the inside
of the piping bag with a thin-ish layer,
maybe like a quarter of an inch or so,
of that purple buttercream,
fill it up with the yellow buttercream in the center,
and then twist it up, and you're ready to squeeze it out.
Once again, I coated my cupcake with a thin layer
of buttercream, and it's time to pipe again.
Hover just above that buttercream, squeeze,
pipe, pull up, stop squeezing, keep pulling up.
The second flower had an issue,
I did not make full contact so part of it
did not release properly.
No problem, just use a palate knife and scrape it off.
Do over and now let's continue covering that cupcake.
We're gonna get about seven flowers on here.
I tried to squeeze more but it wasn't really working,
so, stick with around seven flowers.
This time I'm using that beautiful coral color,
filling it with yellow; a little bit more vivid this time,
I don't know if you can tell.
Squeeze it out and look how pretty that is.
Right, repeat the process once again.
This one is making, I don't know,
some kind of a beautiful flower I've never seen before?
It has a yellow center too which is pretty.
Add some more leaves on and then you can just repeat
the process.
I am loving these piping tips,
I will not lie to you though,
it's taking me a second to get
a grasp of exactly how to squeeze and release.
All right, now we're gonna another piping tip.
This one is gonna be a beautiful daisy, I think,
I'm not sure.
Yes, I added some yellow buttercream into the center,
but it's gonna take a while for it to pop out.
They don't all have to look exactly the same.
That yellow eventually came out on the one,
two, three, four, five, six, sixth flower.
Add some more leaves
and these look kinda like very pretty,
similar to flowers, but not really flowers.
I don't know what to call them (chuckles).
I liked them.
They're one of favorites even though they are the least
flower like flower tip.
My batch of cupcakes is all done.
I gotta say, they look pretty nice.
It's like a Spring time explosion on my kitchen counter.
This was interesting.
It was my first time doing it,
I used Swiss meringue buttercream but,
I gotta say, I think that is like the I'm experienced
with Russian piping tips,
I'm gonna use the best buttercream ever.
If you're just beginning,
I would recommend you use like a really silky batch
of American buttercream.
Just add some more cream in there so it pipes really nicely,
and isn't too crunchy.
If you have a special hint for how to make
the right buttercream for Russian piping tips,
let me know in the comments, I'm all ears,
and I love hearing from you too.
If you liked this video,
check out my How To Make Buttercream Flowers from scratch.
You can make all different kinds of unique flowers
and have a perfect touch to your cake.
You could also check out my cake compilation video.
All decorating, no talking, no me, just the cakes.
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