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!
Thanks for sharing this! I tried a few of the flowers and after a little practice they started to look better…I wasn’t brave enough to do the whole cake but i’m pretty happy with the results
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Can’t you just picture setting this in some sort of hanging basket to display? ‘Cause I TOTALLY want to try that after seeing this cake. 😀
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So beautiful and creative! And the colors…wow! Just amazing!
I wanted to let you know that I just linked to your tutorial in this post. For YOU – A bunch of flowers – one dozen flower tutorials – http://creatingthehive.com/blog-post/174849/for-you-a-bunch-of-flowers
I love your blog, and this cake is one of my favorites! I made it a couple weeks ago for a bridal shower. Here is the address to see a few of the pictures:
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Thank you for the beautiful cake and tutorial!
I was looking through all of your recipes today and found this. I am totally in love <3 I am attempting it tomorrow, WISH ME LUCK!! I am very nervous 🙂
This is so beautiful and such a stunning technique. Thanks for sharing
i love this! thank you so much for sharing this! maybe i’ll try it on my mom’s birthday!
wow i’m gonna try this soon! thanks for sharing!
Finding this on Pinterest couldn’t have come at a better time. My granddaughter’s birthday is coming up and my son and daughter-in-law are planning a flower garden theme. I knew what I was going to do with the cake pops, but had no idea for the cake….YOU solved my problem. Now, I have my fingers crossed, it comes out as gorgeous as yours. Thanks so much for making it look so easy that I’m no afraid to give it a try!