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Summary: How to make rose designs with icing; get expert tips on homemade cake recipes in this free baking video.
Linda Leon is an ordained minister. She and her husband have worked as youth pastors for a number of years. Linda believes that children are the foundation of tomorrow and the best...read more
" Hi, I’m Linda Leon with Expert Village.com, and today we are going to be talking about cake decorating. Our theme is going to be how to make roses, so come on over to my table, and I will show you how. Now we are going to make the rose. I have a rose nail in my hand, and I want you to watch as I turn that carefully to make the rose. One of the things that you want to do when you are making a rose is have a place to build up on your petals so that the rose kind of stands up. You do that with a pumping action. Going up and down, and what you are going to try to do is just make your rose a little bit higher than the other flowers that you have. In order to make a rose, it is real simple. You pump frosting onto your nail, which is called a rose nail, and once you get the icing pumped then you begin to make little petals by doing a circular motion like that. Just back and forth. So watch what I do. You start with the wide tip facing down and push the icing over and come down. You go back; you come over and come down. You go back, over and come down. Back, over and come down. And basically there is your rose. Now you need to take this rose off and so if you have a spatula, you just slide it under the rose very gently and just put it on the little mound that you made for it and that is how you do that. So let’s take a look and do one more. Remember, we are going to pump, get the icing built up and then we are going to go back and forth. Start back, pull it over and go around. You are spinning the wheel as you are turning the rose. You are spinning the wheel as you turn the rose, and you are go back and forth. And your last one is mostly a little wrap around. There you have it. A rose. We are going to put a little pump on the plate, and we will slide our rose off the rose nail and put it right there, and I think we should embellish it just a little bit. We learned about the leaves on another segment but we are going to put a few leaves around there just to make it look a little better. Let’s put another one right there. And there you have it. I hope you got the opportunity to learn something new today, and I would encourage you to continue on with some of our other segments and learn some other new things about cake decorating."
eHow Article: Making Rose Designs With Icing For Decorating Cakes
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cherrylyn1 said
on 8/2/2008 hi linda,thank you so much for sharing your knowleadge about cake decorating tips,,its so helpful to me..I love to bake so much,,,and i collect any cake recipe,cake ideas,speacially i like to learn so moch about cake decorating,,,it was so fun,and makes you so froud making your own cake from your own design....once again,thank you for sharing .......
purplehaze said
on 8/2/2008 It would be helpful to tell the audience that you will need to hold the tip at an angle when squeezing the frosting. Also, when you get to the outer petals, they will want to increase the angle a little more to make the out petals open further. Also, slow down when squeezing and rotating.