{"id":15989,"date":"2012-02-02T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2020-01-26T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:10:24","slug":"frosting-cupcakes-201-the-ruffly-flower-pile-up-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/frosting-cupcakes-201-the-ruffly-flower-pile-up-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosting Cupcakes 201: The Ruffle Flower Pile Up Method"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like any good romance novel,  my tragic love affair with cupcakes will not end anytime soon.  And with Valentines Day around the corner, is there really any better time for a second installment of how to creatively frost the little puppies?<\/p>\n

If you missed my first cupcake frosting how-to you can find it here:  How to Perfectly Frost Cupcakes 101: The \u201cIce Cream Swirl\u201d Methodologies<\/a>.   <\/strong><\/em>It’s simple.  You’ll love it.<\/p>\n

This particular frosting technique I ran into a few years ago in Dallas at The Cupcakery<\/a>.   I saw it.   I loved it.   I took a mental photo and tried it at home.    You may or may not remember it from my 2010 post on Cupcake Doilie Skirts<\/a>.   After that post<\/a>, I can’t tell you how many emails I received about how I frosted those darn cakes!   No one believed me when I told them it was easy, so here (two years later) is the proof…<\/p>\n

\"\"Step One: To begin, start with beautiful cupcakes, the correct tools, and fabulous frosting. See How to Perfectly Frost Cupcakes 101<\/a> for my tips on creating even cakes, good consistency frosting, and setting up your decorating bag.  For this particular frosting technique, you will need a Wilton 2D tip, an extra large coupler.   I used a 20″ canvas frosting bag.<\/p>\n

Step Two:  Beginning in the center of your cupcake, create one flower.  To create your first flower:  Squeeze, letting icing build up to make the flower,  twist your wrist slighty, then stop squeezing.  Lift your tip away.<\/p>\n

Step Three:  Continue technique all the way around your darling cupcake.   (Squeeze, slight twist, and lift!  Repeat<\/em>.)\"\"
\nStep Four: Once you have made it once around your entire cupcake, continue the technique on top of the existing frosting flowers. Piling one on top of another to create height – similar to a dome.
\nStep Five: You are finished. You are fabulous. Add some bling.
\n\"\"
\nStep Six: Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Blog to you soon,
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

P.S. Above is a photo of a new item we are now offering, custom cupcake wrappers.  Each wrapper is customized with  event information and digitally pressed on heavy cardstock.  My brides have been going crazy over them.<\/p>\n

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Like any good romance novel,  my tragic love affair with cupcakes will not end anytime soon.  And with Valentines Day around the corner, is there really any better time for a second installment of how to creatively frost the little puppies? If you missed my first cupcake frosting how-to you can find it here:  How to Perfectly Frost Cupcakes 101: The \u201cIce Cream Swirl\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1027,1026,1051,1052,261,1029],"tags":[1289,1207,1284,1287,1290,1291,1285,1286,1292,1288],"class_list":["post-15989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-babyshowers","category-birthdays","category-bridal-showers","category-holidays-parties","category-tutorialsrecipes","category-valentines","category-wedding-2","tag-cupcake-doilie-skirts","tag-cupcake-toppers","tag-frosting-cupcake-tutorial","tag-frosting-how-to","tag-piping-frosting","tag-rosette-cupcake-toppers","tag-ruffle-flower-cupcake","tag-ruffle-flower-frosting","tag-valentine-cupcake-wrappers","tag-wilton-tip-2d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22357,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions\/22357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}