Hydrangea Cake Tutorial

Just in case anyone wanted to make their own Hydrangea Cake, here a a couple quick tips to make it easier for you!

First, I baked my cake.  I just did a regular white cake with the lemon curd filling and lemon frosting.  (Seriously delish.. and perfect for spring or Mothers Day!)

I used 8in pans then carved around the edges to make my 'bouquet' shape.

You can also bake cake in round pyrex bowl or basketball cake pan or something round.

I then covered the cake in buttercream frosting and chilled it in the fridge.

For the flowers, I used the rest of my buttercream, making sure the consistency was on the thicker side.  Pick the colors that you prefer, and create three of four variations for your petals.

Using a #104 tip with the small edge out, I just piped out four petals to each flower.

I think the actual hydrangea petals are a bit more flat, so if you can master the tip you can create a more realistic looking petal!

(This was my first time trying this flower... I am hoping to improve more for next time... I also want to make this cake in white and pale pink... cant you just see it???)

I started with one color in one section then made a bunch of flowers overlapping each other again and again.

Then went back in with another color and started adding more flowers.  Anytime I saw a flower that I didnt think was good enough I just added a new one on top of it!

This is a really forgiving and easy technique... you really cant go wrong!

And when you are all done, you get this...

Hope you will try it.

 And be sure to leave a link and let me know if you did! 

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Comments

[Bonnie]

This is my first time on your blog and the attraction was your beautiful hydrangea cake post. The tutorial makes it so quick, easy and fun, even for a beginner. What a great summer party idea.
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[Kelly]

Hi there!
Kind of a silly question, but I just want to double check: is that two layers that you cut in half to make the four, or four separate layers?
Thanks so much!!!

[mary Franks]

Amanda,
We are just wondering if you can share with us the wrist action with the 104 tip. We can't get our petals to come out like yours. HELP!!!!

M & B

[Amanda Rettke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no5w43oHcDw

Here is a video I like... hope it helps!

[Pam]

Just gorgeous. And I agree w/ Jen you made it look easy and I'm not sure that I could duplicate it even close.

[Jillian]

Thanks for sharing this! I tried a few of the flowers and after a little practice they started to look better...I wasn't brave enough to do the whole cake but i'm pretty happy with the results

http://foodiheart.blogspot.com/2011/08/brown-sugar-birthday-cake.html

[Annie Skow]

Can't you just picture setting this in some sort of hanging basket to display? 'Cause I TOTALLY want to try that after seeing this cake. :D

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