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1. Introduction: Hi, everyone. My name is Katie, and I'm the owner
of Totally Baked. I originally began
my baking journey after leaving my full
time job as a teacher. Sadly, in 2022, my partner
and I lost our baby girl. Going back to school is a
massive trigger of mine. So what did I decide to do? Quit my job and do something
much more therapeutic. However, as my skills
have improved, I'm itching to get back
into the classroom. This time, I wanted it
to be a bit different. I want to share my skills with amazing other bakers
like yourself. My videos are a
range of beginner decorating skills to much
more intermediate flowers. This means that you
can follow along no matter where you are
in your baking journey. To receive my free
buttercream recipe, all you need to do
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to my email list, and you'll be able to receive some exclusive discounts to my Blondie and brownie guides. Today's tutorial is
all about creating beautiful buttercream
flowers that are simple yet very, very effective. You only need to use three
pipe and tip to this, and honestly, the
results are amazing. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope to see
you very, very soon.
2. Piping Tips and Mixing: So to begin at tutorial today, you're going to need
the pipe and tips. So I'm going to use
the Wilton Tu Di tip, and this is a bit
of a star shape. I'm going to use a Russian, a mini Russian nozzle, and it looks like this. You can use any Russian
nozzle that you want to. This is just one that
I thought would be a nice simple one for now. And then I'm going to
use my trusty Walton 352 for our leaves. It
looks a bit like that. Now, the only color we're
going to use for our cupcakes. This beautiful
purple from Progom and this green
called gooseberry. Okay, so to begin, we're going to create our
purple buttercream. So I'm just using a
standard buttercream that I made earlier. So I'm going to use maybe a
little bit more than that. And if you want to find
my buttercream recipe, you can go online on my website, and if you subscribe
on the email list, you'll get sent a buttercream. This is really, really dc, so I'm literally going to use
the tiniest tiest such bit, to make sure that I
don't use too much, I'm just going to
put a tiny dot like that into my spatula. Then to stir, I like to
push my buttercream into the bowl because I think that this is another method of reducing those
last few air bubbles. I've done this shade,
and as you can see, I've not gone too dark with it, but what I have
done is completely neutralized all of those
yellow undertones. So next up, I'm going to
put that to one side. This is going to be sort
of the base creamy color that I'm going to use
throughout my cupcakes. I'm going to put
that to one side. For my neck shade, I'm going to use
the same purple. But this time, I'm going to create a slightly darker feel. And this time, rather
than just a tiny dart, I'm just going to have a slightly slightly bigger lump just blend and you
can see already, it's a much, much deeper shade. As you can see,
this has created a really, really gorgeous purple. But as you can
see, my purple and purple really match beautifully. If I was to just use this purple and my original
cream butter cream, I would have a very yellow base, whereas if you
compare those two, they really match beautifully and they really
compliment each other. Whereas those two are
actually quite ghastly. That's why we always tend to use a muted version of the color that we're
using for our cream.
3. Loading Up piping bag, First flower: So I'm going to show you
today how to load up your piping bag to create
a two tone rosette. Now, to start off, you're going to use
your Wilton two D tip. Now, the best way if you are a beginner to load
up your piping tip is to actually push
it in to the end and see just where it gets to. Then using a pair of scissors, make an indent in
your piping tip. And just push it
back up and you can see that I've made
that indent there. That just tells me exactly
where I need to cut. So pushing it in,
and you can see it's perfectly in there. Make sure you get rid
of this. Otherwise, you may end up with that
in your cupcake. Okay, so we're going
to use a purple and a lighter version
of that purple to create our tu tone
butter cream effect. I am going to use this purple to go
around the outer edge. So to create our tu
tone, buttercream. I'm going to first
of all get some of my purple onto my spatula, opening up my bag, and I'm going to use my
hand as a bit of a base. What I'm going to do is
just squish that darker purple all the way
around the bag. If you want more,
you can put more in. If you want less,
you can put less in. There really isn't a right
or wrong way to do this. Okay, so I'm not going to
go with loads for this. So that's just the amount
that I've gone with there. And then using the
lighter shade, I'm going to just
open up my bag again, pop it in and push it off and then squeeze it down. I'm just going to do
that one more time with a little bit more
of my cream color. And then just making
sure there's no air bubbles in there. Like so.
4. Smaller Rose flowers: First of all, we need to
flat ice our cokcakeF this. I'm again just using the
leftovers in my bowl. I'm actually going
to do two because this is such a beautiful box, and it really doesn't take you very long once you've
got the hang of it. So it's quite an easy one to
make profit on long term. To do a rosette, you're going to
start in the center, you're going to squeeze
down and you're going to turn your cokake at the same time as turning
your piping bag, and then you're going to
bring it down like so. That's one. On this piping, on this cupcake, I'm going to do a
double rosette. These are going to
be much smaller than the big rosette
that we see here. These are actually really
cute and easy to do. You just need to push down
and you just swirl it around once, and then again, twist your bag, get
rid of any excess, push down and swill. And then let go.
And there you go. Two cute Roses. You can do three
if you want two. Okay, I'm going to do a third here using the last bit in my
pipe and bag. There you go. For my second rosette style, I'm going to actually go on
the outer edge of my cream. So I've got my cream.
I'm going to use exactly the same bag because we don't need to use
more than one bag. I'm going to push
that all around the edges like I did before. Just the same but opposite, and then I'm going to
get my darker color, my purple and pop that into
the center a bit more. And this will be a
bit more of like a rainbow mixture than anything. Really, really, really neat. Like I said, it really doesn't matter sort of how
your coloring goes. When you're doing a two
D. It's quite a nice way. So I'm just pushing down all those air bubbles
that I can feel, and I'm just going
to push any liquid. You can see that you've
got the light coming into the dark rather than the
dark coming into the light. Okay, so beginning my rosette. I'm going to actually
do a rosette here, and then I'm going to do three Russian piping tips
around the outside, but I'm not going to do
those until a bit later. So for now, or you'll see
here's the beautiful rose here. So again, push out, let it squeeze and
then wrap round. For this one, I'm going to do two smaller
ones to squeeze and out we go. Out we go. You can tell that they
are slightly different to those ones in color.
5. Using Russian Nozzles: For this next stage of coloring, I'm going to keep the bits
of darker purple that I can mustard from our
spoons and just pop them into the lighter purple
that I already created. I'm just going to take some
of this and pop it into here because I want this
to become slightly darker, but not too dark, which is why I'm just using a bit of
residue from the other one. That's a lovely lilac color now. Then using what's
left over in here and maybe a little bit
extra. My mixing bowl. I've got a bit extra here and I'm going to create a bit of a darker purple because
the theme was purple. So the lady clearly likes
purple and wants purple. Who am I to deliver
anything but purple? So in mix that up. So the next stage of our flowers is our Russian Pip and nozzle. These are quite tricky to use. So they're a lot bigger than
our normal Python tips, you can pretty much cut
off quite a big gap there. What I'm going to do
is use my dark color, which is my purple, and I'm going to
really, really cover the majority of my
bag with this purple. So you can see the hole so
much smaller this time. And then I'm just
going to use a bit of this light color to go inside
that gap, a small amount. To go inside that gap. I'm going to push
all of this down. I'm making sure it's
all the way down, tighten your bag, and
I'm going to test out my nozzle on my spatula. Now I can see that my white hasn't quite landed
in the right spot. I'm just going to smush that
round a little bit more. So don't forget you need
to flat out your cupcake. It doesn't need to be neat. Again, we need to
make sure that bag is super super super tight. So tight that it will
just come out at the end. With these nozzles, you
got to squeeze down, gently lift, and then pull away. So squeeze down, gently lift. Pull it away. And again. And you can fit
quite a few on here. I've just decided to
swap to this nozzle. So all I'm doing is put in the piping bag that I've
just used inside here. I'm just going to
literally squeeze out all of that icing,
tighten that up. And on my remaining cupcakes, I'm just going to create
some beautiful flowers. Like so. This one, I'm going to go
with 12. Like so. And then on my rosette. I'm just going to pop one
of these flowers on here. Just like so.
6. Adding those final touches: Last thing that we're going
to do is add on our leaves, and these just really
create a bit of depth on our cokcake and
really bring them to life. So I've loaded up my 352 with a mixture of light
and dark greens, and all that is is just
not fully mixed green. I'm going to tighten up
my bag as I do, usually. And I'm going to start
with this rosette. So really, we want to be going where this
little edge is here, so we're going to try
and cover that up. So you want it to be going
that way rather than that way. So turning my piper bag to the right way,
tightening it up. I'm going to push my
high pin tip in and then just create a small leaf around that flower and I'm
going to do that again. They push and then just
create a bit of depth. So. There's no right way or
wrong way to do a leaf. If you are doing it on
your mixed Russian nozzle, you may decide to just
bring your pipe and tip up. This creates a different leaf. It really is up to you
how you choose to do it. Like so. And it really just
creates so much depth. They go from being quite drab to just having
all that life. Because really,
there's no flower in the world that doesn't
have a leaf somewhere. And this just creates that
bit of life in your flowers. And these ones are maybe just
gonna bring slightly up. Towards the ceiling, up, up. Like so. On this one, I'm going to go for a
different kind of leaf again. I've got some gaps here. So what I'm going to
do is really push my leaf nozzle in and
create some larger leaves. Like so. This one's quite big, so I'm going to push maybe
even do a second one. You can do a couple. It
really is up to you, maybe even a small
one up here and here. They look so beautiful. This one, I'm going
to do a big one here, and then a couple of little
ones coming out like that. Then I'm going to stick with
some quite long ones here. For my Russian tip. Then just here maybe another one of those beautiful sticks. I've got my other version
with my larger rose. Again, maybe on my rose. I'm going to do a
beautiful nice big. You can do a ripple. You
can just let them come out. Honestly, they're
just so versatile. It's probably one of my
favorite tips to use do do, and then I might do some bits
for the rose along here. The yeah. If you want to add any more or change anyone
this one looks quite heavy, so I might just go
along the other side. So this one.
Katie Louise Smith, Baker and Teacher
