Did you know that the Rose is the National Flower?
“The rose was designated the official flower and floral emblem of the United States of America in 1986”
People have been asking for over a year now for a video tutorial for the Rose Cake. After posting the Neapolitan Rose Cake a week ago and getting a few more requests, I finally did it!
While I will probably still refer folks to my original tutorial, this little video shows you a couple fun things:
1. How to make it with different colors. (So this will apply to the Neapolitan Cake as well as any Ombre effect you might desire)
2. Just how quick and easy it is.
This video is mostly in real time. You really truly can frost a cake like this in less than 10 minutes. And if you are making all one color it is even quicker.
As you can tell, I made this cake in honor of patriotism… Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Veterans Day, Flag Day, an Inauguration, basically any occasion that red white and blue is appropriate!
How I prepare to frost a Rose Cake:
I get all my frosting’s ready and place in plastic disposable pastry bags.
I then prepare a bag with a 1M tip in it for every color I am using. Here I used three colors, so I had three bags ready. You can go through a lot of frosting making those roses, and its good to have an extra bag ready to switch out.
Also, I really didn’t do a crumb coat. I have done it with and without a crumb coat and find they both work. The reason I can get away with not doing a crumb coat is because I tend to squish my roses together to avoid any dead space.
When making the bottom layer of blue roses around the cake, I tried to stop applying pressure at the top of my rose, where the next layer would be covering. Then simply go right over that edge on your next row. Overlapping is a very good thing with this cake!
As you can see in the video, I went fast and didn’t worry about perfection with each individual rosette.
If you didn’t like how one of your roses looked, simply wipe it off the cake and re-pipe it. Easy peasy! 🙂
There is no editing (other than exposure/color) done to the pictures I have posted. (The pictures were actually taken with my phone.) It’s the same cake in the pictures and video.
The ending cake is still pretty good, even though you saw many errors throughout the video. That is just a testimony to how forgiving the Rose Technique is!
A few have asked, so here is a link to the gel food coloring I use to achieve such deep colors!
you make it look even easier now that I can SEE the video!!
just beautiful
Yay!! Thanks so much sweet Chery! 🙂
I bet this would be the *star* at every Fourth of July party!!! 😀 Love the video too!
Thank you so much sweety!! I think about you all the time, hope you are feeling great! 🙂
What do you use to get your red so pretty? I use Americolor Super Red and still find that it takes so much to get that color that it taste yucky 🙁 Your cake is beautiful, as always!
Just posted a link above!
OK…I think I can DO this now!!! You may have changed my life, Amanda! 😉 Loved, loved seeing “the” rose cake come to life in the video. Just awesome!!!
Oh girl.. you are too sweet!! Thank you so much! 🙂
Amanda, this is beautiful. I have been using your rose technique and have made a few beautiful cakes with it. I wish I could tag them to your facebook profile, but I have no idea how to do it 🙂
I have one question. What coloring did you use to get your blue and red so dark? I can never get my colors that deep. Thanks for all your beautiful creations!! 🙂
Am adding a link to the post now! 🙂
What kind of coloring do you use? I find that most coloring taste bad especially the red.
I use Ateco or Americolor Tulip Red… I think Sugarbelle (Callye) also has a tutorial about that on her blog! 🙂
And you wonder why I stalk your blog 🙂 LOVE!
I love making the “rose” cake! I was always imitated by it, but once I gave it it a try, I fell in love. Something that is so easy gets so many wows by everyone else. And now that I’ve seen the way you do it, I can do it faster and not have to worry about each rose being so perfect!! (:
Wow that’s amazing, you are such a gifted woman.
But do you know, as someone who lives in the UK, it would make a great cake for celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee don’t you think?
The colours are soo right.
That is positively brilliant. 🙂
This is awesome ..Thank you so much for this beautiful cake and the video ..You are so kind :)) Thanks a ton …