Can someone please explain to me how to make buttercream mums?
Thanks,
Tammie

Here's Wilton's way:

http://www.wilton.com/technique/Chrysanthemum-Mum

Tammie,

You can use the same Wilton royal icing method for mums to make mums with regular buttercreme. It would help if the buttercreme was stiff, however. You can use a rose nail and squeeze up a short and round foundation and then do your mum, then use a spatula to slide it off and put it on the cake. Or, you can pipe your mum right on the cake and just keep turning the cake on the turntable as you pipe the petals.

Tip 81 makes the curved petals for the mum.

Julie

When I make my mums, I use half of a regular size marshmallow as the base and then use tip 81 to make the petals. I put a square piece of foil on my flower nail, then secure my foil and marshmallow on my flower nail by putting a dab of icing on the nail and foil so everything stays in place. I then rotate my flower nail as I make the petals just like Wilton says to do. It turns out beautiful. I then slide the foil off of my flower nail and let it sit on my bench to crust before I put it on the cake.

i use the flower nail or pipe right on the cake. i like the half marshmellow way too. i wiil have to try that also. love to make mums. i,ve seen the #16-18 star tip used also for the petals