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Buttercream Essentials: Drop Flower Secrets

Discover the keys to building beautiful buttercream drop flowers with ease using specialty tips in this course at NY Cake Academy. Pick up methods from expert instructors as you practice with different tips to build roses, tulips, daisies, and beyond. Sharpen your cake decorating abilities and craft striking flower arrangements for a dynamic presentation.

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  • 118 W 22nd St, New York, NY
  • 4 hours

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Wed. Nov 4, 2026, 10am ET


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Description

Buttercream drop flowers are a favorite technique among professional cake decorators for good reason: they are visually stunning, surprisingly easy to learn, and endlessly versatile. In the third of five Buttercream Essentials Certificate classes, presented by NY Cake Academy's Cake Decorating Fundamentals series, you will discover how to create beautiful, consistent drop flowers using specialty Russian tips. A go-to tool for many working decorators, Russian tips allow you to form complex, realistic-looking flowers in a single pass, making repetition fast and results consistently impressive.

With step-by-step guidance from our expert instructors, you will practice with multiple tips to create roses, tulips, daisies, and more. The class wraps up with a crash course in blending and transitioning frosting colors and adding green leaf accents to complete a dynamic, full-arrangement Flower Cake Box that showcases everything you have learned.

What You Will Learn:

  • The key differences among the main types of buttercream
  • How to make an American Buttercream suitable for decorating
  • How to hold and use a piping bag, couplers, and tips with confidence
  • How to assemble a cake and practice with a turntable
  • The distinctive properties of various Russian piping tips and how to choose among them
  • Drop flower piping techniques using Russian tips and other specialty options
  • How to create and blend colored buttercream for a seamless gradient effect
  • How to design and build a flower cake box with an artfully arranged combination of drop flowers and leaves

All supplies and materials are included. Classes are fully hands-on and interactive, so please dress accordingly. Comfortable casual clothing you do not mind getting buttercream on is recommended, along with flat, closed-toe shoes. Open-toed shoes and sandals are not recommended for safety reasons in a kitchen setting. Long hair should be tied back.

School Notes: Please note, if you require a gluten free option for your baking class, you must alert the school in advance and there will be a +$15 fee applied for each gluten free substitute which will be collected directly by the school. Please contact them or CourseHorse to arrange this.

Refund Policy

Classes are not eligible for refunds, however classes are transferable.

  • Students may reschedule their class to an alternative date up to 4 business days prior to the class date for in-person classes.
  • All deposits & fees are forfeited for no shows.
  • We do not provide make-up classes.

The school reserve the right to cancel a class due to low enrollment up to 48 hours before the class date. The school reserve the right to change class schedules. If for any reason the school should cancel a class, a full refund will be offered to the student. However, we do not accept responsibility for any other expenses incurred such as hotel or airline cancellation penalties.

Cancellations or changes can be made through email at [email protected]. Please be sure to include the full name of the registered student, and class registration confirmation.

If a class is cancelled due to inclement weather, or other circumstance beyond our control (facility issues, power outages, etc.), we will contact you with as much advanced notice as possible by email or telephone, and issue you a refund to the original form of payment. We will make every effort to run the class as long as it is safe to do so. If we make the decision to run a class during inclement weather and you make the decision not to come, you will not be able to get a refund, we will offer only a credit for future use.

Credits are valid for a 12 month period of time.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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