I love the idea of treating the special people in your life in a special way… cake! These 4 Easy Buttercream Cakes are designed with “mom” in mind… in soft pastels and flowers galore!

These simple designs are easy enough for a beginner to do!

To make these cakes you will need:

cake

buttercream recipe

sprinkles

piping tips

offset spatula

cake stand

rotating cake stand

Rose petal cake that is a simple idea for Mother's Day Cakes

Rose Cake

 

Make a batch of buttercream and tint it pink. Fill up pastry bags with buttercream and fit bag with a #127 tip. (This is basically a giant #104 tip)

Starting with a crumb coated cake, pipe a little dob in the center of the cake. Start adding “petals” are the dob. You are going to repeat this motion around the entire top of the cake.

On the sides you will do the came motion, only against the side of the cake.

Tips: This cake works best with the double bagging method (you go through lots of buttercream!) and when using a rotating cake stand.

This beautiful pink buttercream rose is actually very easy!

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A cake covered in pastel sprinkles and then adorned with a giant buttercream rose!

Pipe out a giant pink rose on a piece of parchment. When I do this, I place a piece of parchment on a rotating cake stand and then begin the rose piping. When done, I place the rose on the parchment in the freezer until ready to assemble cake.

Cover cake with buttercream and then start applying sprinkles to the sides and top. Press in with your hand to get the sprinkles to stick. Once you have covered the cake, use a fondant smoother to press the sprinkles in and get a more uniform shape.

Pipe out a little dob of pink frosting, then place your chilled rose on top. Fill in with any petals as needed.

Tips:

Place your cake on a cookie sheet before adding the sprinkles. When they fall, you can easily scoop them back up for re-use.

You can also pipe the rose directly on the cake.

(See my sprinkles cabinet here)

A beautiful pink buttercream rose sits on top of a cake covered in fun sprinkles!

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Simple yet elegant design perfect for beginning cake decorators!

Add an Ateco #808 tip to a pastry bag and fill with yellow buttercream.  Using a bench scraper gently press into side of crumb coated cake and create a guideline.

Starting at the bottom of a guideline, pipe out a dollop and then swoop up. Repeat this up the line. Move to the next line and repeat. Repeat this around the entire cake.

For the top of the cake, start at the outer edge and move inward, creating a spiral design.

Tips:

Having a loose (soft) buttercream works best for this simple design.

Simple dollops create a fun and easy yellow cake perfect for Mom!

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Creating rustic lines on the sides of this cake make for a pretty compostion when adding simple pink and yellow rosettes to the top.

Cover cake in a crumb coat, chill, and then cover with a generous layer of white buttercream. Place on rotating cake stand.

Using a large spatula (can be offset) start at the bottom and turn the cake on the rotating cake stand. Wipe spatula if needed and then move up slightly and repeat.

For the top, start at the outer edge and move in slightly as the rotating cake stand is turning.

Place some pink and yellow buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with a 1M tip.

Pipe out rosettes around the edge of the cake. Using a leaf tip, add some leaves with green buttercream around the edge.

Tips:

A rotating cake stand is essential for this design.

Having a thick layer of buttercream works best with this technique as you are removing frosting and don’t want to see the bare cake underneath.

Create simple rustic lines in buttercream and then adorn with pink and yellow buttercream rosettes!

Here is a quick video on how I made these cake:

I hope you enjoy these 4 Easy Buttercream Cakes!

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Meet Amanda Rettke

Amanda Rettke is the creator of I Am Baker, and the bestselling author of Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – With a Little Something Extra Inside.Over the course of her 15+ year blogging adventure, she has been featured in and collaborated with the Food Network, New York Times, LA Times, Country Living Magazine, People Magazine, Epicurious, Brides, Romantic Homes, life:beautiful, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Mail, Star Tribune, The Globe and Mail, DailyCandy, YumSugar, The Knot, The Kitchn, and Parade, to name a few.

Reader Comments

  1. These are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing such great ideas with us, I really enjoy watching your videos.

  2. They all look so great and the video explains the decorating process so well. Anyone would be thrilled with one of your cakes xoxo

  3. Thank you for sharing the beautiful caked receipts, and videos with us
    I really enjoy it very much.
    Jan

  4. Hello Amanda,

    my name is Maria and I found you on Facebook. I love the cakes you make I have a challenge for you though because I am diabetic do you have any good cakes that are sugar free that I could make at home. perhaps if you do you can share them with me. I would greatly appreciate that. thank you and have a wonderful day Amanda.

    Sincerely Maria

  5. Amanda, what a beautiful web page and site you have. I was amazed that the creator of these beautiful cakes is so young. I hope to learn lots of decorating tips from you as I now know nothing.

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