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”

 

Patriotic Rose Cake (the Original!)

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!

Patriotic Rose Cake (the Original!)

 

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!

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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. Hi Amanda! Nice to meet you. I found your blog through Pinterest. Thank you for Pinterest, it has reawaken my love for cooking, and DIY projects. I wanted to let you know that I will be doing this cake today (hopefully)!! Those are beautiful colors for that cake. I twisted my ankle a couple of weeks ago while running down from a hike. I love in Portland, OR so when the sun shines here we go out and take full advantage of it. So, I’m home, & I want to bake today. Hopefully my ankle won’t be whining, and I’ll be able to enjoy the process. Thank you for your inspiration!

  2. Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t thought of doing the rose cake like this! I hope mine turns out just as nice. My blue layer is baking right now an the red and white are already finished! Can’t wait to decorate it tomorrow!

    BTW…I so wish they would have taught this in my Wilton courses. I could have shown off my mad skills since this was the first cake I did before I actually started taking the courses!

  3. I just have to say that I LOVE your blog (each part of it). I think you are doing a great job with it and I hope that my own blog will be as great as yours someday. 🙂 Have a lovely day! /ester

  4. Hi Amanda, where can I find the recipe for the sponges? I’m desperate to make the cake for the jubilee but I can’t find the link for the sponge!

    Please help me!

    Pru

    1. Hey girl! I just made a white cake then tinted the layers with food coloring. You can go to my landing page and search “white cake” in the search box to see all my recipes, or you can just google “white cake” and find a recipe that would work for you. I hope you have a Fabulous Jubilee!!! 🙂

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