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How to Make a Buttercream Rose
Gabrielle Feuersinger, owner of San Francisco’s Cake Coquette, demonstrates the art of the frosting rose. The only special equipment you’ll need is a pastry bag, a rose tip, and a pastry nail (which looks like a small pedestal). It may take a little practice to perfect your rose, but playing with frosting is fun.
So, wait- your buttercream roses have a hidden wooden spike in the middle of them? Am I understanding you right?
In any case, I think your 'Ew" response was unjustified. This seems like a useful technique and it was presented well.
Ew! I've made buttercream roses for years professionally and at home and I never use a pastry nail. Its much more difficult for no reason and you end up with a small ton of icing to make 1 rose. Every way (that's not the "Wilton Method"...) I've been taught or seen- just take a small wood dowel and sharpen it to a tip (pencil sharpeners work) and do the same technique minus the massive mound at...+READ
Ew! I've made buttercream roses for years professionally and at home and I never use a pastry nail. Its much more difficult for no reason and you end up with a small ton of icing to make 1 rose. Every way (that's not the "Wilton Method"...) I've been taught or seen- just take a small wood dowel and sharpen it to a tip (pencil sharpeners work) and do the same technique minus the massive mound at the beginning of hers. It gives it much more shape too. Not so fat and stubby.-COLLAPSE