How to Make Frosting Roses

This page is all about how to make frosting roses. Everyone loves roses on cakes. They look so fancy and beautiful. However, they can look very intimidating to new cake decorators. Here is a helpful video tutorial on making roses and step by step directions. Then all you need to do is practice and practice some more!

If you'd like a more simple frosting rose try making rosettes. They are really very easy to create and look nice. This technique is often used as a border, to decorate cupcakes or even add small delicate details to your cake.

How to Make Rosettes

Frosting rosettes are created using a star tip. Depending on the size you'd like the rosettes you can go with a larger star tip for large rosettes or a small #16 for more delicate rosettes.

Hold your bag at a 90 degree angle and start from the middle of the rosette squeeze frosting out and make a complete circle around the middle.

You could create these with any colored icing and add leaves to resemble more like a rose.

Rose Making Video - Cake Decorating Techniques 

How to make Frosting Roses

Cake Decorating Supplies Needed

   You will need one of these tips for roses

• Flower nail
• Tip 12 for base
• Tip 104 for petals
• Frosting
• Pastry bags
• Coupler
  

Piping a Rose out of Icing
The key to making icing roses is to coordinate moving the nail and your tip at the same time.

• Using your flower nail create a base with tip 12. Squeeze frosting out creating a cone shape.
• Release pressure on pastry bag.
• With tip 104, hold your pastry bag 45 degrees on your rose base. Start from the top and create 3 petals on each side.
  
• Make 5 more petals all around sides.
• Finish of making 7 petals all around sides.
  
• The turning of the nail and your piping will create rose petals.
• If it doesn't turn out well you can simply reuse your frosting and keep practicing.
• To remove your rose off the nail use kitchen scissors and lift rose from underneath.
• Position rose on your cake.
• You can use tip 104 for the rose base if it is easier for you.
  

Add leaves or stems to your rose now.

Need more help? Here's another video tutorial on cake decorating roses.