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This is again an article about making flowers from buttercream. Since my blogpost about a beginner’s guide to buttercream flowers is so popular, I decided to make another for a bit more advanced buttercream decorators. Yes, I am aware that Mother’s Day is around the corner. Probably no better time than now to practice making flowers with buttercream. Have you ever tried to pipe anything with buttercream? If you have, you probably have your share of fails, for me the biggest fail was the new buttercream I wanted to try. It basically consists of melted white chocolate and butter. But boy, everything went wrong, I was so disappointed. Believe me, I still experience bake fails, this one was one of them. But I decided to keep digging, so after a lot of reasearch I found another buttercream. Not American buttercream, which seems to be the go-to buttercream for super sturdy buttercream. I find American buttercream way too sweet. For these flowers you would need to add even more icing sugar, so this was off the table. But below recipe works like a charm. I deliberately decided to post my first attempt at three-dimensional flowers here, I know I can still improve a lot, but I wanted to give you a glimpse of what you can do with a palette knife if practicing for a little. So do you want to become an artist and pull out those palette knives?

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