The roses are gorgeuos. Well Done!

"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!

To repeat the phrase........"Holy Crap".....I think she has done a few times...and that boarder....zip zip and it was done. Great video....thanks for sharing and I'm sure a lot of us are off to practice, I know I am.............

They are gorgeous!

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!!

ya know... just when you think you're getting good at some of this stuff, things like this video come along! LOL

I want to practice now... Darn you people and your motivating tactics!

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!

Beautiful roses! Thank you very much for the video link. I have sworn off bc roses, but now I think I'll give them another try.

Good job on these roses.

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.

OMG That lady on the video is the Michael Jordan of buttercream I have to try this, and the reverse border made me feel very inadecuate, but I have to make a batch of buttercream and it will either be very good or very very bad...

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.

Oboemommy - thanks for the tips. I'm going to have to give it another go soon. Y'all are getting me motivated!

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!

There is a pictorial on stick roses under "articles" on the top of the page by ntertaynme/Cheryl...

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.