Just in case anyone wanted to make their own Hydrangea Cake, here a a couple quick tips to make it easier for you!
First, I baked my cake. I just did a regular white cake with the lemon curd filling and lemon frosting. (Seriously delish.. and perfect for spring or Mothers Day!)
I used 8in pans then carved around the edges to make my ‘bouquet’ shape.
You can also bake cake in round pyrex bowl or basketball cake pan or something round.
I then covered the cake in buttercream frosting and chilled it in the fridge.
For the flowers, I used the rest of my buttercream, making sure the consistency was on the thicker side. Pick the colors that you prefer, and create three of four variations for your petals.
Using a #104 tip with the small edge out, I just piped out four petals to each flower.
I think the actual hydrangea petals are a bit more flat, so if you can master the tip you can create a more realistic looking petal!
(This was my first time trying this flower… I am hoping to improve more for next time… I also want to make this cake in white and pale pink… can’t you just see it???)
I started with one color in one section then made a bunch of flowers overlapping each other again and again.
Then went back in with another color and started adding more flowers. Anytime I saw a flower that I didn’t think was good enough I just added a new one on top of it!
This is a really forgiving and easy technique… you really can’t go wrong!
And when you are all done, you get this…
Hope you will try it.
And be sure to leave a link and let me know if you did!
This would be a wonderful cake for a bridal or baby shower, just customize the colors to fit the shower…sooo beautiful, I just love it!
hi! beautiful cake! i want to make it for my mother next week! i am wondering if you baked 2 layers of the white cake you have linked, and cut them horizontally in half to make 4 layers or if you made 4 layers of that white cake. also, i’ve never shaped a cake before – any tips for dome-ing? or do you know of an online tutorial? thanks so much!
Attempting to make this for Mother’s Day but in cupcake form. Bretton Woods housewives, I’m sure I’ll have enough for you too! I’m only sharing if they turn out decent. 🙂
I failed. 🙁
A friend of mine forwarded me this recipe with a tongue-in-cheek request that I make it for her birthday (she lives about a thousand miles away, so that’s not likely, LOL). It was so pretty that I decided to make it for my grandmother’s instead. For a family gathering of that size, though, we need two cakes, so I first did a bundt cake with basket-weave icing, then set the hydrangea cake on top. Once I added some braid to finish the basket, it was fun and fabulous! You can see a (not fabulous) photo at http://roseannamwhite.blogspot.com/2011/05/word-of-week-memorial.html
This is my first time on your blog and the attraction was your beautiful hydrangea cake post. The tutorial makes it so quick, easy and fun, even for a beginner. What a great summer party idea.
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Hi there!
Kind of a silly question, but I just want to double check: is that two layers that you cut in half to make the four, or four separate layers?
Thanks so much!!!
Amanda,
We are just wondering if you can share with us the wrist action with the 104 tip. We can’t get our petals to come out like yours. HELP!!!!
M & B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no5w43oHcDw
Here is a video I like… hope it helps!
Just gorgeous. And I agree w/ Jen you made it look easy and I’m not sure that I could duplicate it even close.