At the bakery I work at we use cuticle sticks and make the petals around the stick, lift the rose off with scissors and place on the cake. I made very poor roses indeed with the flower nail and once I got the hang of doing it on the stick, I have not looked back! It's so much easier and nicer this way.

Do you use the nail or a stick?

I use both but perfer the stick.

I used the nail for decades ... discovered the stick method a few months ago and wow, what a difference! LUv the stick!!

Depends on the day. Some days the nail works better for me and some days the stick works better. Its probably the icing.

I dont do either, sadly I can not make a buttercream rose to save my life

When I tried to make roses on the stick, they kept falling off. Do you build the rose at the tip of the stick, or further down the stick?

I've never heard of making bc roses on a stick............how do you do it???


Lisa -- your puppy is SUPER cute in that picture!!!!!!!!!!!!

could someone please explain the stick method or point me in the direction of a tutorial?! thanks!!

I have good luck with a flower nail, and stiff froating, but after these posts I'm going to try the stick!

i like and do both ways. for the stick... you have to have a good base wrapped around the stick .. you have to have a good base for the nail.. touch your stick with the 104 tip.... make several wraps around at the top.. then start with the 3 petals .. 5 petals.. then seven more if you want that many.. lots of people stop at 5 petal for their last row.. open scissors, etc... place under rose... turn stick as you lift off rose .. place rose on cake.. close scissors. some people just keep going around base on stick.. and stop when they feel like it is enough.. its just how you want to make them.. hth

I use a stick, but add a gumdrop to it! It gives a sturdy base and I can easily lift off the rose by taking the whole gumdrop off!

I do a wrap around the top of the stick and then two, five and seven petals. The petals I stick to the stick and sometimes they slide down but as stated earlier when you slide the rose off they kinda tighten up and go where they belong. The decorator before me I swear could get her petals almost an inch off the stick and they still didn't slide down! She made some wide based roses.

I do my buttercream roses on a nail, but then I freeze them so that I can just lift them off and place them with my hands. Frozen, they are just like royal icing roses - I can place them wherever I want on the cake this way (even on the side of the cake) except when they come back to room temperature, you don't have to remove them to serve/cut the cake!

I have always used a nail and it's perfect for me.I haven't tried the stick though maybe i will.

I have done them both ways.. I still prefer the look of the one in the nail, but the stick is really fast.
Edna

sorry for this, but..........do you make the standard center for the rose on the stick then let it dry overnight as usual?

Thanks for the UTube link Babybear! I had never seen the stick method either. It was a very informative video! Not to mention made me laugh a few times!!!

i think all bakers tend to do it the way you do. i have done it both ways and think the stick method is the easiest!