I have been asked to do a birthday cake for may daughter's teacher; its due next week. IT's a fairly simple design, blue roses on some vines around a happy birthday message. The lady who asked me to do it, the room mom, came to my daughter's birthday party, where I put roses on her cake. She asked me if I could do them any bigger. I told her no at first; I thought the 104 was the biggest tip I had. When I got home, and got to looking, I have TWO giant petal tips; a 127 and a 129, I believe. I also have a very large round tip; I don't know the number, but it is so big it won't fit on a coupler, just in the bag by itself. SO, my question is, any idea how I can do these roses? I am afraid a flower nail would be too small for the base I would need to make for the roses. Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. IF anyone has any pictures of giant roses, please share! TIA!

Hiya Kim, welcome to C.C.
Yes you can use the flower nail, just make sure that your frosting is stiff enough not to flop or glob. That's usually what kills those big ones. but yes you can use the regular size nail for those. They turn out wonderful. Don't worry bout couplers either, you just plop the tip into the bag and cut off the end of the bag (only prob with this is that you can't change colors unless you have more than one tip and a different bag). Just experiment with the stiffer icing and see how that works for ya.

Wilton makes a huge flower nail. I have made large roses before, they are kind of challenging. Your icing has to be the right consistency, though, or they look like a big blob since there is so much icing. They are pretty when finished, though.

As for the tip not fitting on the coupler...try dropping the tip directly into the bag, without using a coupler, it will work.

As for the head of your flower nail being to small...you can attach a small plastic lid to the head of your flower nail to increase the surface area of the nail. I'm thinking the lid off of a PRINGLES can (or a similar size) would work great. Just attach with icing, or tape to the nail head from the underside for more stability!

HTH
glenda

as a point of reference for how big you can make them, check out this link at Wilton: solitary rose

they made it using the mini-ball pan for the center!

Wow, thats .... one giant rose! Thanks for sharing, Doug. That helps me alot.

WOW!!!!! Doesn't that give us ideas?????? Thanks Doug!

that rose on the wilton site is very pretty, but could you imagine eating all of that frosting??? ugg.

♥m

thanks Doug, for the pic - I never knew you could make roses that big!

very cool...thanks Doug!

There is also a size 180 rose tip that is made by Ateco. I have one, and it makes the biggest roses I have ever seen! I happened to luck into it when I went to a supply store in another state.

Theresa

tmriga---how long is the opening on that big Ateco tip? I have the Wilton 127D giant rose tip and it is 1.5" long. I was just curious...

I have a little tip for making the frosting stand up. You add quite a bit of meringue powder to your buttercream. It really stabilizes the icing and also makes it crust real well. I do this to my buttercream if someone wants to have a lot of roses on their wedding cake. I can make them a few days ahead and then you can literally pick them up and place them where I want. The best thing is that you can cut through them because they are buttercream.

I think that the last time that I did this, I added 1/4 cup of meringue powder to a single batch of icing.

Good luck
Dawn

WOW Doug that is one giant rose! Thanks for sharing. It would make a pretty topper.

It's about the same length, but it is slightly bigger at the wide end, which gives the taper more stability.

Theresa

Great pic Doug. Thanks for the idea.

Dawn, Thanks for the tip. Now I will start to practice making roses again. I haven't done any in a while becausee I just couldn't get the icing consistency right.