Dress up a Sheet Cake: Valentine's Day Ombre Petal Cake

February 09, 2020

Shades of pink and red. Hearts. Petals. What could be more romantic and more appropriate for Valentine's Day?

First I frosted my sheet cake with white buttercream.

I got out four similar sized round piping tips.

I had two bowls of buttercream.

which I colored with pink food coloring. One with significantly more coloring than the other.

I mixed them through and I had two different shades of pink.

I also had white and red buttercream. I put all four colors into piping bags with the large round piping tips.

The technique is called a petal technique. There are a couple ways to do this. You can pipe a blog and use the back of a spoon to smear it in one direction. But my favorite way is to pipe the blob and pull in one direction with the piping tip.

I kept the same order of the colors all along and set the pattern down one every row.

I continued this pattern all the way along the sides of the cake.

And all the way around.

Then I used the same petal technique to pipe a large heart in the middle of the cake.

Then I piped some overlapping pink petals to create tiny little hearts. Instead of doing the same thing with white, I piped a few blobs of white around to add texture.