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    Home » Cake Designs

    Published: Jan 13, 2022 · Updated: May 21, 2022 by Amy · This post may contain affiliate links (see disclosure)

    Princess Flower Cake

    👸 Simple Cake Tutorial-Here’s a simple and adorable cake design for the little princess in your life. This princess flower cake is topped with a non-edible princess crown topper that the birthday girl can wear after the cake is cut.

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    Buttercream Princess Flower Cake Design with a Tiara Cake Topper by Amycakes Bakes
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    • 🎥 Quick Cake Decorating Video
    • 👩🏻‍🍳 Pipe a Princess Scallop and Lace Design
    • 🌼 Pipe Buttercream Flowers on the Cake
    • 👑 Add a Princess Crown or Tiara
    • 👸 Other Princess Flower Cake Designs
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

    🎥 Quick Cake Decorating Video

    Watch me make this princess flower cake!

    🎥 I hope you enjoy the video above (you may have to hit "play" twice on mobile devices). You can also view all my bakery recipe videos and tips on the following channels:

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    👩🏻‍🍳 Pipe a Princess Scallop and Lace Design

    The scalloped and laced buttercream design makes the cake look girly and intricate, but you’ll see that the techniques involved are actually quite simple! I’ve included some links within this post for more resources if you’d like to learn about these techniques in more detail. Let’s get started!

    To pipe a scallop-and-lace design onto your cake frosting, use a #4 round tip and pipe 3-4 inch scallops (half-circles) on the side of your cake. Before I pipe patterns on cakes, I let my fully frosted (flat-iced) cakes set up in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes until the frosting is firm to the touch--I talk about this more in How to Bake and Layer Cakes Like a Pro.

    Princess Flower Cake with a Tiara Cake Topper by Amycakes Bakes this Post

    This type of piping works well with my Piping Buttercream recipe and my House Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream. Pipe small dots around the edge of the scallops as seen in my cake video.

    With the same # 4 round tip, go back inside the scallops and fill in a buttercream "squiggle lace" design, which is simply curvy lines of buttercream that do not overlap or meet-- you can learn more about this buttercream pattern with Wilton's Cornelli Lace Tutorial.

    🌼 Pipe Buttercream Flowers on the Cake

    Buttercream piping bags for a princess flower cake with russian flower piping tips

    I decorated this cake with a combination of simple white "rosette swirl" flowers with a #822 star tip, and two different types of flowers with Russian Flower Tips. I love the Russian flower tips for easy but detailed flowers.

    I thickened my Piping Buttercream with additional powdered sugar to make the flowers with Russian Flower Piping tips. Then I went back in with small details of purple and teal in #14 and #21 star tips, and added green buttercream leaves with a #352 leaf tip. As fate would have it, I forgot to press record when I added the flowers in my cake video below. If you'd like to learn more, here's a great tutorial I found on A Beginner's Guide to Russian Piping Tips.

    👑 Add a Princess Crown or Tiara

    This cake would not be complete without a princess crown or tiara topper!  I made this cake for my 5-year-old niece, and her favorite part was the sparkly princess crown that she could wear after the cake was cut. I used the silver crown from this Melissa and Doug Princess Crown set, but here are a few options that would be great on a princess cake:

    Melissa and Doug Crown Set
    Birthday Girl Tiara
    Rhinestone Tiara Cake Topper

    👸 Other Princess Flower Cake Designs

    For more inspiration, here are some other princess and floral cake designs that we made at Amycakes Bakery:

    Gold Princess Flower Cake by Amycakes Bakes
    Tiered Princess Rosette Cake by Amycakes Bakes
    Princess Tiara Cake by Amycakes Bakes

    You could also turn a trendy drip cake (my favorite cake design) into a princess cake by adding a princess topper.

    Thanks for Reading. ❤️

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    📖 Recipe

    Princess Flower Cake with a Crown Cake Topper by Amycakes Bakes
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    Princess Flower Cake

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    Here’s a simple and adorable cake design for the little princess in your life. This princess flower cake is topped with a non-edible princess crown topper that the birthday girl can wear after the cake is cut. The scalloped and laced buttercream design makes the cake look girly and intricate, but you’ll see that the techniques involved are actually quite simple! I’ve included some links within this post for more resources if you’d like to learn about these techniques in more detail. Let’s get started!
    👩‍🍳 For the most accurate baking results, use the grams measurements with a kitchen scale. Watch the quick recipe video
    Servings 1 6" cake
    Prep Time30 minutes mins
    Piping Time20 minutes mins
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    Equipment

    Gel Food Color
    12 inch disposable piping bags
    Small Piping Tips
    Large Piping Tips
    Bench Scraper
    offset icing spatula
    Turntable
    Russian Flower Piping Tips
    couplers and rings

    Ingredients

    • 1 6" cake (I recommend baking the cake in a ¼ sheet cake and cutting it out using the Cut and Stack Method) (Choose one of my Extra-Moist Cake Recipes)
    • 3 cups Buttercream to fill and frost the cake (I used my House Vanilla Buttercream)
    • 2-3 cups Piping Buttercream (I used my Piping Buttercream)

    Instructions

    • Crumb-coat then flat-ice your cake in the buttercream color of your choice. Let the fully-frosted (flat-iced) cake set up in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes until the frosting is firm to the touch–I talk about this more in How to Bake and Layer Cakes Like a Pro.
    • Pipe a scallop-and-lace design onto your cake, Use a #4 round tip and pipe 3-4 inch scallops (half-circles) on the side of your cake. With the same # 4 round tip, go back inside the scallops and fill in a buttercream “squiggle lace” design, which is simply curvy lines of buttercream that do not overlap or meet– you can learn more about this buttercream pattern with Wilton’s Cornelli Lace Tutorial.
    • Decorate the cake with a combination of simple white “rosette swirl” flowers with a #822 star tip, and different types of flowers with Russian Flower Tips. Add small star-flower details in #14 and #21 star tips, then add buttercream leaves with a #352 leaf tip. If you’d like to learn more, here’s a great tutorial I found on A Beginner’s Guide to Russian Piping Tips.
    • Top the cake with your favorite Princess Crown or Tiara.
    Author: Amy

    Calories are estimated using a nutrition calculator. This recipe may link to additional recipes, which contain calories that are not included in this recipe.
    Tried this recipe?Mention @amycakesbakes or comment below! I'd love to hear from you!
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