The amaryllis has long, narrow leaves and large trumpet-like flowers, comprising of six petals. It comes in a variety of colours – usually a combination of shades of pink and red with white.
1. Prepare the dark pink and untinted buttercream (see Blended Two-tone Effect), and pipe a dot for the start, one for the tip and one for the end of the first petal, creating a Y-shaped guide.
2. Hold your piping bag at a 20 to 30 degree angle and pipe a rounded two-stroke petal (see Basic Petal Strokes), following your marks.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to make three petals.
4. Pipe three more rounded two-stroke petals between the first three petals.
5. Using your light green buttercream in a piping bag with a small hole at the tip, pipe the centre.
6. Using untinted buttercream, pipe short spikes all going in one direction. Then in yellow, pipe a short line across the tip of each white spike.