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Cake Decorating – Cupcake Bouquet – Class Notes & Recipes

Flower Bouquet Class Notes & Recipes

We hope you enjoyed our cake decorating class and are ready to recreate your flower bouquets at home.

What we learned:

Sunflower – Made using yellow, green and brown buttercream, with either a V-tip nozzle or cutting the piping bag into a ‘V’ shape.

Hydrangea – Made using blue and purple buttercream, with a closed star nozzle. (Wilton 2D)

Rose – Made using pink and yellow buttercream, with a open star nozzle (Wilton 1M)

Daisy – Made using any two colours of buttercream you wish, with a tear drop tip (Use both ends).

Chrysanthemum – Made using any colour of buttercream you wish, with a curved nozzle.

Cupcake

Ingredients – Yields 4 Large or 6 Small:

  • 100g Butter or Margarine
  • 100g Caster Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 100g Self-Raising Flower

Note: If you want to make your Cup Cakes Chocolate, take away 15g of Self-Raising Flour and replace it with Cocoa Powder.

Method:

  1. Cream the butter/margarine.
  2. Add the sugar in stages and beat until thick and fluffy.
  3. Add eggs slowly.
  4. Fold in sieved flour.
  5. Pipe into bun cases 2/3 full.
  6. Bake at 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and springs back when touched.

Gluten Free Cupcake

Ingredients – Yields 12:

  • 125g Butter, melted
  • 125g Caster Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 125g Gluten Free Self-Raising Flour
  • 125g Gluten Free Plain Flour
  • 45g Milk
  • Few Drops of Vanilla

Method:

  1. Put melted butter into the mixing bowl.
  2. Add all the other ingredients.
  3. Beat the mixture with a hand held electric whisk, to give a smooth batter, it may appear a little runnier than a usual cake batter.
  4. Pipe the mixture into 12 bun cases.
  5. Bake at 190c/360f/Gas Mark 5 for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and springs back when touched.

Crusting Buttercream

To make this buttercream you have to use a 2:1 Ratio.

2 = Icing Sugar

1 = Butter

Example:

  • 500g Icing Sugar
  • 250g Butter

Method:

  1. Beat butter on high for 5 minutes until pale.
  2. Then add the icing sugar in stages.

*To get the buttercream whiter, put a drop of purple food gel in. This cancels out the yellow of the butter.

Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Ingredients:

  • 170g Pasteurised Egg White
  • 680g Icing Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 680g Unsalted Butter
  • A few drops of Vanilla

Method:

  1. Put the egg whites, sugar and salt into a scalded mixing bowl.
  2. Using a whisk on the machine, blend ingredients together.
  3. Whisk for 2 minutes on top speed and then scrape down the sides of the bowl, whisk for another 3 minutes on top speed.
  4. Add the butter slowly at room temperature over several minutes then scrape down the sides of the bowl.
  5. whisk for a further 10 minutes on medium speed.

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