Hi
How far ahead can you make roses from Buttercream Icing

1-2 weeks or more. Let them air dry. If mine sit around more than 2-4 days, I put them in a plastic container. Otherwise, they sit on my counter until I need them.

I make mine and immediately put them on a cookie sheet and into the freezer. Once frozen, I transfer them on their wax paper squares into a tupperware container with a lid. I keep them like that in the freezer until I need them (could be a month or more). They are super easy to handle when frozen and I just lift them off the wax paper and place them where I need them on the cake.

To some degree it depends on your icing recipe.

I make air-dried b'cream flowers and can keep them up to 6 months.

really?? buttercream roses?? I would think you could keep royal roses for so long. wow! that is so great to learn

Freezing them? Do you have problems as they thaw out on the cake....like slipping?

Never thought of freezing them. Made a batch the other day but did not want to through out the extras (they were so pretty). But I will use them now - seeing that it is airdried and kakeladi said you can keep them for 6 months.
Thanks all...

you can make them and then freeze them for a very long time.

When I keep frozen flowers, I have a label on top of the container. it would say "yellow roses 1/30/07" "purple pansies 2/18/07" "bue forget-me-nots 3/16/07" etc. I add the description and dates so I know how old the flowers are. I have thrown out many flowers because of their age. I still haven't figured out how long they keep, though. I usually will taste one.

No, no problems at all with thawing the roses. No slipping at all.

In fact, I will freeze them even if I plan to use them the same day simply because they are SO much easier to handle while frozen.

I will make what I need, put them on a cookie sheet and put it in the freezer for at least 1/2 hour. Then when I take them out (if I have a lot of roses, I freeze on 2 separate cookie sheets to give me extra work time) I use the flower scissor thingy to pull them off the wax paper squares and place right on the cake. If I put one in the wrong place it's easy to just scoop it up again and re-place it.

They thaw perfectly in place on the cake! Try it!

Can someone please share what the best recipe for BC when making the roses to freeze?

I have used both a recipe that has 1/2 butter 1/2 shortening as well as a recipe that uses just hi-ratio shortening.

You should be able to use just your regular buttercream recipe as long as it is stiff enough to pipe.

Good luck!