Watch a brand new series of 6 innovative buttercream fruit & flower wreath cake tutorials starting this week! I created 6 unique designs using unusual methods to pipe, shape and colour buttercream for a stunning result. The designs feature buttercream fruit, leaves and flower blossoms which are all nature-inspired – and will be uploaded free to watch on my Youtube channel 🙂 So whether you’d like to pipe a pomegranate, pears, guava blossoms or anything more, this is the place to be!

You can see all 6 designs in the preview here:

Now on to the first cake:

1/6: Buttercream Pomegranate wreath cake:

I show how to pipe realistic looking pomegranate fruits and blossoms, and dust them with colour (yes, I figured out it’s possible to do that, and I show you just how in my video 🙂 ) before assembling into a wreath on an iced cake.   Technically, the blossoms I chose to pipe aren’t the full flower, but the leftover sepals after the flower has been fertilised and the petals fall off.  I thought it’d suit the design of the cake better that way – but if you’d rather try the whole flower you can pipe it the same way as a bright European poppy (video here).  If you haven’t seen it yet, my full tutorial for the buttercream pomegranate wreath cake is here:

If you’ve already watched, read on!

More information:

Buttercream recipe: My eggless Swiss Meringue buttercream – SEBC (or here if you prefer no protein powder versions)

Colours: I use a mix of natural and gel colours.  You can see my DIY natural colours video to learn how, or use a combination of similar gel or powder colours to get the same look.  I don’t recommend using any very liquid food colouring as it’ll probably make your buttercream split.

Before you start:  prepare a smooth iced 6″ cake.  If you don’t know how to ice a cake smoothly, I recommend using my tutorials here for a semi-naked cake plus recipe, and here for a fully iced (frosted) one.  My blog posts and videos should help teach you the most straightforward way to get a professional looking result.

 

Detailed Instructions:

The instructions and all products you need are linked in the list below, for both the US and UK.  These are affiliate links, which means you get to support my tutorials without paying a penny more than usual. Thank you for supporting my channel 🙂

 

Here’s everything, in order of appearance in the video:

1. Pomegranates:
   • DIY piping cone or any large round tip
   • colours: turmeric & a tiny pinch of beetroot powder for the fruit.
   • Pipe a blob of finishing consistency buttercream (not sure what that is? watch here) on parchment paper then sharply tap the flower nail on the table a few times to help it spread into a disc.  Be sure to freeze your discs before piping the final features and dusting!
   • Dusting colour: poppy red: USA: buy here, UK: buy here
   • Fan brush: USA: buy here, UK: buy here
2. Pomegranate base centres:
   •  small DIY leaf tip for the calyx, filled with the original colour (as in 1 above)
   • tip: any writing tip or DIY piping cone,
   • colour: as above with a bit of melted chocolate or brown colouring added
   • pipe a small blob of brown on the bottom of the fruit, then overlap it with small leaf shapes to complete the calyx.  Re-freeze when done.
3. Blossoms, centre: 
   • tip DIY piping cone,
   • colours: yellow & red gel colours (see my recommended products list to see which I used)
   • pipe a small lump of buttercream, then pipe narrow stamens in the centre and all around the perimeter.
4. Blossoms, sepals (petals):
   • small DIY leaf tip,
   • colours: as above
   • pipe petals all around the perimeter of the flower stamens.  freeze when done.
5. Blossoms, yellow:
   • DIY piping cone or #0 tip: USA: buy here, UK: buy here
   • colour: turmeric or yellow
   • pipe tiny stamen heads on the top of your frozen stamens.
6. Branches:
   • DIY piping cone or a #5 tip: USA: buy here, UK: buy here,
   • colour: melted chocolate
   • pipe a C-shaped wreath of branches onto your cake.
7. Leaves:
   • DIY leaf tip,
   • colours: leaf green & yellow
   • pipe leaves spaced around the branches, then position the frozen fruit and flowers around the wreath on top.

That should be all you need to know to make your own pomegranate wreath cake! Stay tuned and subscribe to my channel to watch the next 5 tutorials coming up!

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