Here is another awesome tutorial! Check out my Spring Flower Cookie Tutorial. I will walk you through the process of creating 6 beautiful buttercream flower designs on large sugar cookies. Find the best sugar cookie & frosting recipe here.
Below you will find a short 12 minute video showing you how to create the floral looks. After the video you will find a full supply list (with links) and step by step written out instructions to go back to as needed while you are creating your masterpieces.
In 2023 I had the idea to create beautiful buttercream flowers on sugar cookies, I had seen them on cupcakes or on cookies with royal frosting but never on a cookie with buttercream frosting. Sugar cookies are on of my favorite desserts! Personally, I will always grab a cookie over a cupcake because of my amazing sugar cookie frosting and its unique flavor & extracts. I sold these beautiful flowers at a Spring market in 2023 and they were a huge hit! So many people started asking me to make them for their celebrations. In 2024 I stopped taking orders to focus on my food blog, so I am teaching all of you how to make the same amazing desserts.

Buttercream Spring Flower Video Tutorial
Supply List
- Piping Bags
- The Best Food Dye
- Wilton 2D – 4 of them
- Ateco 353
- Wilton 5
- Wilton 366
- Wilton 233
- Ateco 125K
- Wilton 104
Step by Step Instructions
Flower One – Hydrangea
Fill a piping bag with a Wilton 2D tip with two tone frosting. Do this by using a butterknife, spread the blue frosting around the edges of the piping bag and spoon some natural or white frosting in the middle.
Hold the piping tip about 1 cm away from the cookie, squeeze, applying pressure to the bag. Release the pressure, stop squeezing and then pull the piping bag away. Repeat until the cookie is full of small flowers.
Flower Two – Rose Trio
Fill three piping bags with three Wilton 2D tips in different colors. Also fill a piping bag with Ateco 353 and green buttercream. Lastly, fill a Wilton 5 with yellow buttercream.
Start with one Wilton 2D tip and tightly swirl one complete circle. This shouldn’t be too large if you stop at one loop around. That way you can fit 3 roses. Repeat 2 more time with the other two Wilton 2D tips & colors.
Surround the rose trio with little green flowers using the Ateco 353 tip. Make sure the ‘beak’ of the tip is facing up so that your leafs have a ridge in the middle. I like to do culsters of 2-3 leaves. To pipe these you will touch the tip to the cookie, apply some pressure as you slowly pull the tip away from the cooke. Release all pressure and quickly pull the tip away, leaving the leaf shape pointed.
Finally, top each leaf bunch with 2-3 yellow berries using the Witlon 5 with yellow buttercream. Apply a little bit of pressure until a ball is formed, releasing pressure and pulling away.
Flower Three – Lotus Flower
For this flower you will use a Wilton 366 tip in any color you’d like and a Wilton 233 tip in green for the center.
Starting on the outer edge of the cookie, with the ‘beak’ facing up, pipe a circle of petals following the edge of the cookie. Repeat a smaller circle of petals slightly overlapping the first circle. You can stop here or opt for a third row of petals lightly overlapping that second row.
Once finished with petals, use the Wilton 233 tip in green to pipe a center circle. Applying pressure with the tip touching the cookie, continue to apply pressure as you pull away slightly. Release all pressure and gently pull the piping tip completely away.

Flower Four – Lisianthus
For this flower you will use the Ateco 125K tip with any buttercream color of your choice and the Wilton 233 tip with green buttercream.
Start on the outside edge of your cookie. With the fatter side of the Ateco 125K tip facing the middle of the cookie and the thinner side facing the edge of the cookie. Make a little ‘M’ over and over again following the circle of the cookie on the outside edge. Repeat a second circle slightly overlapping the first circle, closer to the middle of the cookie. On this second circle, you will want to tilt the piping tip slightly up so that the petals look like they are opening. Repeat again with a third circle insides the second circle, slightly overlapping and tilting up the tip again.
Once the petals are completed, take the Wilton 233 tip and create a center just like you did on the Flower Three design.
Flower Five – Zinnia
On this flower you will be using the tips Wilton 104 in any color buttercream you’d like and Wilton 233 in green buttercream. This flower uses the same technique as Flower Four.
Start on the outside edge of your cookie. With the fatter side of the Wilton 104 tip facing the middle of the cookie and the thinner side facing the edge of the cookie. Make a little ‘M’ over and over again following the circle of the cookie on the outside edge. Repeat a second circle slightly overlapping the first circle, closer to the middle of the cookie. On this second circle, you will want to tilt the piping tip slightly up so that the petals look like they are opening. Repeat again with a third circle insides the second circle, slightly overlapping and tilting up the tip again.
Once the petals are completed, take the Wilton 233 tip and create a center just like you did on the Flower Three design.
Flower Six – Daisies
Going back to the Wilton 2D tip in natural or white buttercream, the Wilton 5 tip in yellow buttercream and the Ateco 353 in green buttercream.
Starting on the outside of the cookie edge, take the Wilton 2D tip, hold the tip very close to the cookie and apply some pressure so that a tiny flower like circle shape is piped onto the cookie. Release all of the pressure and pull the tip away. Do this again and again all over the cookie in random spots.
Fill each white flower that you just piped using the Wilton 5 tip in yellow. Apply a little bit of pressure until a ball is formed, releasing pressure and pulling away.
Lastly, using the Ateco 353, making sure the ‘beak’ of the tip is facing up so that your leaves have a ridge in the middle, pipe little leaves all over to fill in any gaps between your daisies. To pipe these you will touch the tip to the cookie, apply some pressure as you slowly pull the tip away from the cooke. Release all of pressure and quickly pull the tip away, leaving the leaf shape pointed.
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Why make Spring Sugar Cookie Flowers?
These sugar cookies are a hit for any Spring holiday or party. You could add them to your Easter spread or give them to your Mom for Mother’s day. You could pass them around to neighbors on May Day or add them to a tea party dessert table. Whatever the occasion is, if its Spring time, these cookies will pair wonderfully.
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