Buttercream for Making Simple Flowers

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Buttercream Flowers

This is a recipe used for making simple buttercream flowers and good for beginner pipers. It's a crusting recipe that helps the flowers hold their shape. You may have to adjust it according to your climate. If your climate is very dry and cold, you can always add a very small amount of water to the mixture to help soften it just a bit!

If you'd like to try out a recipe that is used to create more detailed, higher (less flat) flowers, check out the Buttercream Glaze recipe!

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Ingredients
1 cup Salted Butter (226 grams - 2 american sticks, non-salted butter is fine too)
1 pound Confectioners Sugar (454 grams)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (4.9 ml - you can use the extract of your choice)
Instructions

  1. Mix the butter until smooth in a mixer.

  2. Gradually add the powdered sugar, mixing on low with paddle attachment (not whisk).

  3. Add the extract until well mixed (on low speed... trying to avoid bringing air into the mix).

I tripled this recipe to make the 8" floral wreath cake pictured above.  I made the flowers first, and then added some water to the rest of the buttercream to make it a bit more smooth so I could ice my 8" cake with it, nicely.