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 –Â Made using pink and yellow buttercream, with a open star nozzle (Wilton 1M)
Daisy –Â Made using any two colours of buttercream you wish, with a tear drop tip (Use both ends).
Chrysanthemum –Â Made using any colour of buttercream you wish, with a curved nozzle.
Cupcake
Ingredients
Ingredients – Yields 4 Large or 6 Small:
- 100 g Unsalted butter
- 100 g Caster Sugar
- 2 Medium Egg
- 100 g Self-raising flour
Note: If you want to make your Cup Cakes Chocolate, take away 15g of Self-Raising Flour and replace it with Cocoa Powder.
Method
Method:
- Cream the butter/margarine.
- Add the sugar in stages and beat until thick and fluffy.
- Add eggs slowly.
- Fold in sieved flour.
- Pipe into bun cases 2/3 full.
- Bake at 180c/350f/Gas Mark 4 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and springs back when touched.
Gluten Free Cupcake
Ingredients
Ingredients – Yields 12:
- 125 g Butter melted
- 125 g Caster Sugar
- 2 Medium Egg
- 125 g Gluten-free plain flour
- 125 g Gluten-free plain flour
- 45 g Milk
- Vanilla essence
Method
Method:
- Put melted butter into the mixing bowl.
- Add all the other ingredients.
- 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.
- Pipe the mixture into 12 bun cases.
- Bake at 190c/360f/Gas Mark 5 for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and springs back when touched.
Crusting Buttercream
Ingredients
To make this buttercream you have to use a 2:1 Ratio.
2 = Icing Sugar
1 = Butter
Example:
- 500 g Icing Sugar
- 250 g Butter
Method
Method:
- Beat butter on high for 5 minutes until pale.
- 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
Ingredients:
- 170 g Pasteurised Egg White
- 680 g Icing Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Sea salt
- 680 g Unsalted Butter
- Vanilla essence
Method
Method:
- Put the egg whites, sugar and salt into a scalded mixing bowl.
- Using a whisk on the machine, blend ingredients together.
- Whisk for 2 minutes on top speed and then scrape down the sides of the bowl, whisk for another 3 minutes on top speed.
- Add the butter slowly at room temperature over several minutes then scrape down the sides of the bowl.
- whisk for a further 10 minutes on medium speed.
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