I Made My First Stick-Roses! And I Luv It!!!
Decorating By indydebi Updated 8 Jul 2008 , 10:24pm by Rincewind
"That woman is a machine......her reverse shell border made me want to cry"
That's exactly how I feel. Glad to know I'm know the only one who can't zip through a cake in 10 minutes!
Go to work for a bakery - you'll be doing cakes in 10 minutes very quickly. Trust me! LOL!
"That woman is a machine......her reverse shell border made me want to cry"
That's exactly how I feel. Glad to know I'm know the only one who can't zip through a cake in 10 minutes!
Go to work for a bakery - you'll be doing cakes in 10 minutes very quickly. Trust me! LOL!
Aint that the truth!....they were going like that at the first place i was hired....i thought i'd never get fast.....but you do.
i don't like fussing with a cake forever.
Holy Crap, did you guys watch that video?? That woman is a machine!! She made those roses faster then I could watch and her reverse shell border made me want to cry - I want to do that!
I have watched that video about 15 times now. I really would like to learn that technique. She was so fast.
I recently tried it also and like you I LOVE IT. Here is a pic
Holy crap is right!!! 
I don't think I can think that fast never mind ice a cake that fast lol 
I am definitely going to try the stick trick now, I have been having trouble with my roses since I started decorating but maybe this way will work for me!
Thanks for sharing! 
Geez Indy -- had I known you wanted to learn I would have brought my dowel and frosting to our lunch last Fall!! 
"That woman is a machine......her reverse shell border made me want to cry"
That's exactly how I feel. Glad to know I'm know the only one who can't zip through a cake in 10 minutes!
Go to work for a bakery - you'll be doing cakes in 10 minutes very quickly. Trust me! LOL!
I work for a bakery here, and let me tell you, you learn VERY quickly how to ice fast! Only difference with work and home is that I use BC and fondant here and whipped icing there.
As for those roses, I'm just gonna have to give it a shot! It looks so much easier than what I have been doing.
I was inspired to do this today and I have to say I will NEVER go back to using a flower nail again!!!
They are in my pictures, for some reason I can't copy and paste???
Wow! Thanks for the post IndyDebi! I have never been able to make a buttercream rose. (Although I have also never taken a class.) With the help of books and trial and error (not to mention CC!) I have learned many things. Trying to do BC roses with only the Wilton instruction book has been difficult. The last time I needed them for a cake I was so frustrated, my boyfriend at the time came over and asked what was wrong and I told him. He looked at the directions and asked if he could try. I handed him the piping bag and said "sure" kind of rolling my eyes to myself. Go figure, his first one was perfect. (growl...) I just smiled and told him I need 26 more. I have been haunted by those things since. 
I did marry him though, just in case I need anymore BC roses. 
I am eager to try this method. Maybe I will finally be able to make my own!
Littlecake was that your video? If so THANK you!!! I am BC rose challenged... and to be a decorator I think that is a no no LOL
Beautiful work!!! And that cake turned out beautifully!
Melissa that cake also turned out beautiful!! Your roses are amazing!!
I'm soooo envious!!!!
Debbi are you faster at doing them on the stick now?
oh yeah, much faster on a stick! These are so much easier, that my 15 year old's first rose was practically perfect, so I can even assign her to whip some up for me!
now I feel like a total loser
Don't feel bad, Christi!! I tried last night to do these, and couldn't make one to save my a$$.
Is there a tutorial somewhere? I watched the video but there is no way I can learn just watching that. I did attempt to try them last night and they weren't so bad shaped, but they just slid right down the skewer. Is there a BC recipe that is better than others? I have been using the one in the faux fondant article.
Beautiful cake, indydebi. I just learned this technique myself last week. I never could make a decent rose with a nail and when I saw that video a while back, I was happy to find out there's another way. I love this method and won't bother with nail again. I don't know if I'll ever be as fast as the lady in the video, but at least my roses look like roses now, and not blobs.
mom2leelee - I looked for a tutorial but couldn't find anything. Basically after watching the video a zillion times, I made some batches of BC and practiced a little each day and eventually got the hang of it. Some notes I made:
1. A medium to stiff BC is best. (Sorry I'm a newbie and I'm not familiar with the BC you mentioned 
) Anything that is too thin will slide right down and will cause the rose to fall apart once you try to remove it. For practice, I used the Wilton BC recipe. A little light corn syrup will help keep stiff icing from cracking. I tried this method using SMBC. I was only able to make small roses (and that's with chilling the icing a little).
2. Large roses can start to look like pine cones while still on the dowel, but once I use the scissors to lift it off, the rose scrunches down a little and looks fine.
3. As I start/end each petal, I touch the tip to the dowel to sort of anchor it. I hope that make sense.
Well, I tried them. Have to say it was kinda fun. Mine did slide down most of the time but I kept working and then just slid off the stick with scissors and they looked ok. Had a whole in the middle where the stick was so I just kinda filled that in. I used bamboo sticks. I will keep trying because it was fun. Thanks for the link!
Littlecake was that your video? If so THANK you!!! I am BC rose challenged... and to be a decorator I think that is a no no LOL
Beautiful work!!! And that cake turned out beautifully!
Melissa that cake also turned out beautiful!! Your roses are amazing!!
I'm soooo envious!!!!
Debbi are you faster at doing them on the stick now?
oh shoot! that aint me ON the video....i just found someone who does it the same way i do!
i guess i should quit callin it my video....
sorry to lady on there! 
I just watched the video and I am amazed. I have never seen that method before and I can't wait to try it out! Thanks for posting that video.
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