100 Buttercream Flowers: The complete step-by-step guide to piping flowers in buttercream icing Paperback – Illustrated, April 14, 2015

100 Buttercream Flowers: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Piping Flowers in Buttercream Icing is a comprehensive and visually stunning book that takes the art of cake decoration to new heights.The step-by-step approach in this guide is both detailed and accessible, making it an invaluable resource for both beginners and experienced bakers. The author's instructions are clear and accompanied by vibrant, high-quality images that capture the intricate details of each flower. This visual aid enhances the learning experience, ensuring that even those new to buttercream flower piping can follow along with confidence.The diversity of flowers covered in the book is impressive, offering a wide range of options for various occasions. From classic roses to whimsical daisies, the book covers a hundred different floral designs, providing a rich repertoire for cake decorators to explore.What sets this guide apart is its emphasis on creativity. While it provides a solid foundation for replicating the showcased flowers, it also encourages readers to experiment and personalize their creations. This balance between instruction and inspiration makes the book a delightful companion for those looking to elevate their cake decorating.In summary, "100 Buttercream Flowers" is a masterful guide that combines detailed instruction with artistic inspiration. Whether you're a novice eager to learn the basics or an experienced baker seeking new ideas, this book is a must-have for anyone looking to add a touch of floral elegance to their baked creations.

This is a really nice illustrated book for piping buttercream flowers from well known artisans. On the Kindle version, each piping step gets its own page, and maybe combining multiple steps on one page as a series would have made it more movie-like.Piping leaves, however, gets only the finished look and not step by step.The 1st few chapters are also very nice and gives LOTS of pointers and tips for creating buttercream frosting, specific ingredients to use, where to get supplies (US & UK suppliers at back of book), how-to and proper techniques. It's quite detailed, which is nice. Oftentimes authors don't provide enough specifics, assuming everyone "knows" what the author is talking about.However, this book has ZERO cake decorating designs or ideas. This is strictly about techniques for piping flowers and leaves.

Like to make flowers??? Every flower is instructed.

The book has great ideals on 1000s of beautiful flower decorations

This is a Christmas gift so haven't put it to use yet

Beautiful pictures. The buttercream artist's work is so realistic, in creating these flower, I could guess what kind of flower it was before seeing the name of it. Good close-up photography work on each flower. Good direction in what angle to hold the piping tip.I do agree with another reviewer - this is NOT a book for beginners.I'm planning on making some white cream cheese frosting and choose a couple of flowers, that will look good in all white, and practice on something the shape of a cupcake (upside down custard cup). After I get good enough with each flower, I'll decorate some cupcakes. I'm planning on learning how to do these flowers much like a knitter would make a sampler quilt. Practice one or two flowers at a time on a bunch of cupcakes.If I have anything critical to say, there could have been more direction and description in creating some of these flowers. For example, on page 32 (plumeria), the 4th step says to, "To pipe the next flower in the cluster, pipe a blob of buttercream and repeat steps 1 - 3 on top of it." It would have been nice if the author had told us why the blob is important. I'm guessing the blob is to give a starting point as well as height and interest.I'm very happy with my purchase.

I would give this more stars if I could. I am a cake decorator, and have been chided in the past that my cakes look very "Albertsons". Yes, that was meant by my manager to be an insult... /sigh. I'm left-handed and had a hard time learning flower techniques from my co-workers, who are right-handed - couldn't mentally mirror-image the way they move their wrists or the angle of the tip, that sort of thing. This book was a break-through for me. Because the images are shown almost-upside down, with each petal laid out so you can clearly see the shape you're going for, I had no trouble following this guide. I have had no condescending comments from co-workers, and no negative comments from the bakery manager! I bring it with me every night - I am lucky enough to work graveyard, so I have the space on our cake bench to actually set out the book and all my bags and learn the flower without worrying about judgmental looks or snide comments from the more senior decorators. Tip for other lefties: In the book they call for a few right-handed PME tips - 57R and 58R. You can find the left-handed versions, 57L and 58L right here on Amazon!

This is a great book about buttercream flowers! I’m a bit more advanced than beginner but it has been so much fun and helpful. By far the best decorating book I’ve purchased