Bachelor Button

This handsome flower is an excellent choice on men's cakes and in summer floral arrangements. Bachelor buttons look terrific in blue, white, pink or lavender.
Practice with Tips: 1, 5, 16
Icing Consistency: Medium Royal Icing
Positions:

• For mound and center stamens, 90°
• For star petals, 45° at 3:00 (9:00)

Hold Tip:

• For mound, slightly above center of nail
• For center of nail, lightly touching center of mound
• For star petals, tip touching edge of mound.

Flower Nail: #7
1. Hold bag at 90° angle to flower nail, lightly touching surface. Pipe tip 5 dot base.
2. Pipe a cluster of short pull-out dots in the center using tip 1.
3. Using tip 16, cover the remainder of mound with stars. Start at base, then work toward center.