In this reel you will see how I make a flower. The amount was sufficient to frost the entire cake (12cm diameter, 7cm in height), and create all flowers and leaves. In fact, I had some cream left.

For the buttercream first whisk together the milk with the icing sugar in a small bowl until you see now lumps. Cut the cold butter into cubes and beat them briefly in a large bowl with a machine. Once you start adding the milk mix slowly, be sure to cover your bowl with a large and thick towel as otherwise you will have milk splattered all over. Only add milk little by little. It took me about 5 minutes before I could take off the towel and another 10 before the cream was ready to be used. You will know that the cream is ready if you can't find any liquid at the bottom of the bowl and the buttercream has a glossy and smooth consistency. If after 15-20min you still feel it looks curdled, warm up a small part of the butter, put it back in and continue beating. If you are in a warm place, it may take less time to come together. You can add a very small amount of purple food coloring to take out a bit of the yellow color. Your buttercream is now ready to use. If it become too soft, place it in the fridge for 10-15min, then continue. The cream can be used for several days, chill in the fridge and let come to room temperature. It can be frozen for a few months as well. Always make sure it is glossy and smooth before you start, sometimes you need to rebeat if any liquid has separated.

In this reel you will see how I make a flower. For each petal you will need to make a rectangle of 1-2mm in thickness. You don't need to worry if you haven't mixed in the color evenly, it even gives more depth if petals have slightly different shades of the color. You can also add more white buttercream every time you make a rectangle for slightly different shades.

For one flower, I created about 5-6 petals every time, which I then put together. I chilled the flowers prepared like this, would glue them onto the cake and the finish with the pollen or other details when they were already on the cake. If you don't place the petals directly on the cake once you made them, you can redo them as much as you want until you are happy. I used one evening to simply practice making petals. The next evening I started putting them together as a flower and only on the third evening I would then start glueing them onto the cake. I definitely preferred this. Maybe once I am more comfortable, I may start putting the petals directly on the cake and making the flowers on the cake immediately. But let's first start by making a petal. I would also ask you to check the photos above and read the descriptions to better understand. For one petal you will need to take up cream about ½ or ⅓ of the length of your palette knife. You need to do this at a 45 degree angle. Start by first creating a rectangle of about 1-2mm thickness and either starting on the left or right take up cream at said angle for about 5-9 times. Once you have done that, reduce again to about half (so now you will only take up cream about ¼ of the length of the palette knife). Take up cream again between 5-9 times. You have created one petal (see large photo above). Place this petal on your surface and make a total of 5-6 petals, some slightly bigger, some smaller, either starting at the right or left side of the rectangle. Once you have made enough petals for one flower, cut out rectangles of parchment paper you can place your flowers on. By using two palette knives, put the petals together to create one flower (see again the picture above). Chill these flowers until they harden. You can also speed up the process by placing them in the freezer. Remember to have fun, this is not a competition, if you are unhappy with the result, just start over again, everything takes time, just practice a bit more.

Creating leaves is even easier, you will only take up crem 3-5 times and that's it. You also need to do this from the left as well as from the right. I place the leaves onto the cake directly without chilling them first, but you could do that as well.

Glue on the chilled flowers onto the cake, use a bit more cream to make sure they don't fall off. I made the pollen with a piping bag I had only cut off a very small tip from. I also formed the flowers a bit more once they were on the cake. I got a lot of compliments for this cake!