I often spent hours on Pinterest looking at all that beautifully piped buttercream flowers and succulents. I have always admired people’s dedication and patience that goes into those delicate petals and leaves, so I finally tried it! Here we go, 🌵🌵Buttercream Succulents Cake🍰 I stick with simple piping techniques for this cake with succulents and cactus, show me your love, so I am more motivated to do buttercream flowers video next time
Buttercream Succulents Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate Brownie Cake
- 300 g Unsalted Butter
- 100 g Sugar
- 4 Eggs
- 150 Melted Dark Chocolate
- 192 g Flour
- 64 g Baking Powder
Buttercream – Can use either store brought or make your own
- Wilton Colours – Orange, Moss Green, Brown, Teal Blue, Black, Leave Green
Instructions
Chocolate Brownie Cake (this is a one-bowl recipe, which I love, it’s not deadly sweet!)
- Preheat the oven at 160°C.
- Add unsalted butter and sugar into a big bowl, mix well.
- Add the eggs, mix well.
- Add melted dark chocolate, mix well.
- Sift and add flour and cocoa, mix well.
- Lightly grease the cake moulds (5”) with butter.
- Pour into the prepared tin, leave 1-2cm at the top.
- Bake at 160°C for 20 minutes.
- Leave to cool, then run a knife around the sides and remove from the tin.
Buttercream
- Divide 5 cups icing equally among five bowls.
- Using Wilton icing color, mix the following colours:– Bowl 1: Original colour– Bowl 2: Orange– Bowl 3: Moss green and brown– Bowl 4: Teal Blue and black– Bowl 5: Moss green and leave green
Pipe Succulents
- All succulents are piped on flower nail prepared with flower square. Once succulent is complete, remove flower from square, place flower on cake and apply new flower square to nail. Put all the succulents into the fridge for at least 1 hour. I have put in the timing there so you can reference it back to the video.
Star Cactus Bush (01:35)
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 12. Stripe bag with orange; fill with original.
- Start with a flat round circle as base, pipe buttercream into a mounded shape (squeeze and pull away slightly), continue piping around the base, gradually decreasing petal size at start of new petal row.
- Stop when it ends up looking like a little bush.
Echeveria (02:00)
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 352. Stripe bag with orange; fill with green (moss green and brown).
- Pipe circle of pull-out leaves. Fill circle with pull-out leaves.
Cebenese (02:40)
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 81. Stripe bag with orange; fill with blue (teal Blue and black).
- Pipe some buttercream in circle as the mound. Hold the decorating bag at a 45° angle to outer base edge of mound, with half-moon opening of tip inserted slightly in the icing dot, squeeze and lift up slightly as you release pressure for each petal.
- Repeat turning the flower nail as needed to form the first row of petals.
- Pipe a few more rows until you reach the desirable size.
Tall Cactus Bush (03:36 uses tip 10, 04:10 uses tip 12)
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 12. Fill with green (moss green and leave green).
- Pipe buttercream into a tall mounded shape as base. For each petal, squeeze and lift up slightly, continue piping and turning around the base.
- Gradually decreasing petal size at start of new petal row.
- Stop when it ends up looking like a little bush.
Frost the cake
- Stack the two brownie cakes together with some buttercream in the middle. Frost the cake with original butter cream. You don’t need to frost it perfectly here because we want to create this rustic look and showing the brownie underneath.
Assemble
- Squeeze a dot buttercream on the cake and gently put the succulents on top. You can arrange the succulents in whatever way you like.
- Use Tip 1F to pipe some star cactus (assorted heights) around the succulents. I just use whatever colours left for the star cactus for colour consistency. However, you can also mix some brighter colours to “bright up” the cake.
- Use Tip 2 to pipe white dots down grooves of starts. Top with small flowers with Tip 224.
Video
I really want to encourage you all to try buttercream succulents. IT’S NOT AS HARD AS IT LOOKS! It’s a lot of fun mixing all the colours. It takes a few imperfect ones until you get a feel of how much strength you use to squeeze the bag when to pull out/lift out, but you will get there as you practice more. And honestly, when you put all the succulents together, you can hardly spot the imperfect one (I mean…there’s no perfect plant as well). The brownie cake is one of my favourite brownie recipes. Usually, I prefer a fudgy brownie but as a cake base, I made a more solid one. You can also use a #chiffon cake base. Happy baking!
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