Painterly Posies

摘要

1. Prepare buttercream by mixing with gel colors and place into piping bags. Queen of Hearts (QOH) notes: We used teal for the cake and shades of green, pink, orange, red, and yellow for the flowers. 2. After frosting the cakes with buttercream, smooth the surface as evenly as possible by placing a cake cloth or Viva paper towel over the buttercream and smoothing with your hand or a fondant smoother. Once smooth, place the cake in the fridge to firm up. 3. Taking the white buttercream, loosely pipe the outline of a flower onto the cake surface. It does not have to be precise. 4. Using a small palette knife, spread the buttercream upward, going in the direction of each of the petals. QOH notes: Remember you're going for an impressionistic effect, so it does not need to be perfect.