100 Buttercream Flowers: The complete step-by-step guide to piping flowers in buttercream icing

by Valeri Valeriano, Christina Ong

Learn to pipe 100 different buttercream flowers to showcase on your cakes with this complete visual reference to piping flowers - each flower is demonstrated on a cupcake, with five full scale projects to show you how to combine your flowers into a masterpiece cake.

Described by Chef Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes as "hugely aspirational yet completely approachable," the authors demonstrate how to build up each flower using simple piping techniques that even the novice cake decorator will be able to achieve!

All the basics are covered to get you started - how to make stable buttercream icing, advice on coloring and flavor as well as essentials such as how to fill a piping bag and the basic techniques you need.

Valerie & Christina then demonstrate in step-by-step photographic detail how to create each flower and how to use your new found skills to create stunning cake designs. The flowers are presented through the color spectrum so when you look through the book you'll see the lovely rainbow effect.

Written by the world's leading lights in buttercream art with an international following and over 60,000 Facebook fans!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2015

Reviews

[Michelle Amos]

I work as a professional cake decorator and bought this book to keep at work as a flower reference. Great pictures, good explanations of the steps for each flower, and it even has a few cute tiered cakes at the end of the book. I only wish the authors had listed the flowers alphabetically instead of by color or had included an index.

[Ligaya]

This is a decent reference book but I agree with another reviewer's comments that the organization could be much better. Had it been indexed and alphabetized, this book would be much easier to use. The photography is poor. I think better lighting would have made the flowers not look greasy. Some flowers I did not recognize at all and some flowers (particularly those with more dimension like irises and fuchsia) would be better served done in fondant.

[M Delea]

Love this book. Besides the how to for the flowers, there are also lots of tips and information that even a beginner like me can understand.

The directions for the flowers are clear and easy to follow, with great photos. I also like the organization of the flowers: the authors have sections based on the flowers’ color.

I will be making some buttercream flowers in the next week, and I will be using this book as my guide.

[Penny]

Impressive...

[Eileen]

Good reference book for butter cream flowers.