Hey everyone, it's Beth from the Wilton
Test Kitchen. It's buttercream flower
series time again. Today I'm going to
show you how to make a really sweet
cherry blossom. So I have all of my icing
setup and I've used burgundy icing
color to color my icing. I have a very
light shade which is really kind of a
pink and I have a darker shade here; this
i'm going to use for the centers of the
flowers. I've also colored a little bit
of very, very pale gray and i'm going to
use this to pipe a branch because cherry
blossoms grow on trees and oftentimes
when you see them in designs, they are
coming off of branches. I also have some
white icing ready to go. So cherry
blossoms we're going to make in the five
petal flower style which means we need
to use a petal tip. I really like these
with tip 101, 102, and 103 and when you
combine the sizes together you get the
kind of a realistic portrayal of what a
cherry blossom tree would be. I have
my disposable decorating bag cut, we're
going to stripe a bag with the different
colors of icing so that we get a nice
varigation in the petals of our flowers. I'll
show you the tip 103 first, the largest
of the petal tips we're going to use. My
bag's already cut so I'm just inserting
this down into the opening and i'm going
to stripe the bag with the pink where
the wide end of the tip is, because we
want the pink to come out at the fat end
of the petal which will be at the center.
So carefully put that all the way down
into the tip and scrape it up the bag
and then fill the rest of your bag with
white icing. You can use a medium
consistency icing for this. It'll give you a
really nice definition for your petals.
When you do bag or brush striping, it's
helpful to start off of your cake or
cupcake and squeeze out some of the
icing to make sure that you get both of
the colors going before you start piping
on your project.
It took a little while for my pink to
start flowing out, but now I see it so
that means it's going to come out on my
flower. We're going to build these guys
on a flower nail and you can use a
parchment square, but here's a helpful
tip: if you run out of parchment at home
you can use wax
paper too that works great for
buttercream flowers. We're going to make
a simple five petal flower. This is
really similar to an apple blossom or a
wild rose,
so if you've made those you have the
cherry blossom with no problem.
We're going to hold the bag at a 45
degree angle with the white under the
tip facing the center of the nail. We're
going to squeeze, come up slightly while
rotating the nail, and then back down to
the center, and then stop the pressure
and move the tip away for the first
petal. We're just going to repeat that
four more times. I also have a bag with
darker burgundy icing and a tip 1, a
really tiny round tip. We're going to use
that to pipe some dots right in the
center. We're going to make about five and they
don't actually touch each other. Pop this
off of your flower nail onto a sheet
pan and into the freezer. You want to let
go until it's completely frozen through.
So my cherry blossoms are in the freezer
but they're really shallow so they warm
up really quickly, so you'll want to be
ready with your project before you take
them out of the freezer,
that's why I'm going to pipe my branch
now while they're still in there.
I have some very pale gray icing, really
pretty, and a tip 3 so a small round, and
i'm going to pipe a little branch on my
cupcake. Here you just want to give it
some different dimensions and movement.
This is going to give us something to
hang our flowers off of just like the
real thing. So I have different sizes
here from my different petal tips,
we'll just peel them gently off of the
waxed paper squares and put them onto
our branches. And i love the way the
different sizes look really makes it
realistic and very pretty.
The cherry blossom is a really sweet
flower and it's super easy to do so all
the way around great thing to know. Now
you know what to do - comment below which
flowers should we do next month and if
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