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!
Amazing and brilliant inspiration for the upcoming jubilee celebrations in England!!
Impresionante! es increible lo fácil que parece en tus manos. Muchas gracias!
So simple yet so beautiful! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
With the Jubilee weekend next week, I guess I will be perfecting roses in icing. We are swooning over this cake at work!
Hi Amanda: I want to “Thank You” so much for your tutorials. I was afraid to make the “Rose Cake” when I first saw it on your blog. I thought it would be complicated and it would not turn out as perfect as yours. I need to make my mother a “Mother’s Day Cake” and I wanted truly wanted to make the “Rose Cake”. So I took a dummy cake and started practicing before I baked the cake, and I was amazed that I got it on the first attempt. My mother was so surprised and overjoyed once I gave her the cake, that she did not want to cut the cake to serve it to the family. I love all of your tutorial and cakes, and thanks for the confidents that you have given me to excel in what I love do best.
JUST GORGEOUS!!! Since, I already have flag cookies drying, and I think this is a MUST HAVE, I’m going to give it a try with a smaller cake! Thank you so much for this beautiful inspiration!
Thank you so much! I am going to try this out for Memorial Day!! I cannot wait…I have been curious on how you did these beautiful rose cakes for quite some time! Your blog is my favorite!!
Thank you for the video and all the great information on the colors. Beautiful work!
Wow, I was mesmerized by how you so adeptly and quickly made the rose swirls. It’s great being able to watch you doing it in real time like that.
I have been meaning to try this technique. Definitely will now that I have seen your video. Totally get your double bag – I use disposable bags inside my reusable bags for the same reason you do, but also to avoid staining my fabric bags.
Great tip Jacquee!