Step 6: How to Make Icing Flowers

Star Flowers

Step 1. Hold tube perpendicular to practice surface, squeeze out a star flower, then stop pressure and lift off tube.

Step 2. Add a tiny dot center with tube 3 and you have a star flower.

Swirled Flowers

Step 1. Hold tube perpendicular to surface with your hand turned as far left as possible. As you squeeze, turn your hand to the right as far as possible and stop pressure. See picture.

Step 2. Dot center with tube 3.

Practice Making Other Drop Flowers

Practice other Flowers: Use the same procedures as above to make two different floral varieties with each of the following tubes. Use different colored icings and make several of each flower.

Then on decorating day, simply lift the dry frozen flowers off the wax paper and place on the cake.

Use tube 21 to make very large plain and swirled star flowers. To decorate centers, hold tube 3 perpendicular to flower and as you squeeze, pull tube up and away, relaxing pressure as you form a peak of icing. Repeat for several center peaks.

Use tube 30 to make large plain and swirled star flowers, dotting flower centers with tube 3.

Use tube 33 to make two or more pretty drop flowers; then decorate centers with tube 3, dots or peaks of icing.

Now, lets learn How to Make Some Leaves.

Fancy Flowers

Colorful flowers made of icing are probably the most admired cake decorations of all, and like any other decorating technique they require practice.

Since you've already practiced the easiest flowers to make, drop flowers, it's time to try some other popular varieties that are also made on a flat surface.

So get out your cookie sheet, tube 104, slightly stiffened icing, and let's practice the Sweet Pea and the Rosebud. Sweet Pea and the Rosebud page