Okay I know Roses have been dicussed into the ground but I have a different kind of rose question. How do you cascade roses made out of buttercream down the side of a cake? I tried it on a practice cake for Valentine's Day and I had a horrible time with it. Some I got to stay on toothpicks that were inserted into the cake but for the most part they had to be kinda on top of the cake. Can you cascade bc roses down the side or do they have to be royal icing roses? I have a wedding cake in April and the bride is thinking she wants bc roses cascading down the side of it. Any ideas?
Shanna
try this cc article link:
http://www.cakecentral.com/article50-Making-Buttercream-Roses-on-a-Stick.html
Definitely dry the roses first. I also use BC as my glue. I don't use toothpicks. I have one in my pics if you want to take a look. You could always build up a base with icing and then place your roses on that.
Okay because I just stink at roses. How do you vary the size? Do you different size tips? How do you make a bud? Do you just not add addition petals? I have tried to do the one that lays flat on the cake and mine look deformed. I have never had cakes that require flowers so I am at a loss.
thanks
Shanna
I did one, its in my photos.. I did freeze mine and then inserted a toothpick right in the center of them to hold them in place.. BECAREFUL, that you have it right down the middle.. I had a few fall off during delivery...
I have a cake in my gallery that has cascading roses. It is the ONLY cake I've ever put roses on, and probably the only one that will ever have roses. I used b/c as a glue to hold the roses onto the cake side.
HTH
Tina 
My answer to this would be to kind of stack them up on each other; smaller ones (using a smaller rose tip) on top of larger ones; and also to pipe rose buds directly onto the sides (which aren't so heavy so you don't have to worry about them falling off like you would the big heavy bc roses.) The rose buds and little roses on top of bigger ones will give the appearance of cascading without the engineering nightmare of trying to apply large (heavy) bc roses onto sides of cakes. I have one pic in my album of a basketweave and bc rose cake and this is the method I used.
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