How To Do Cake Piping

Hold the piping bag at a 45 degree angle.

How to do cake piping. Image by DonBuciak II 2009 CC BY-NC-ND 20 Planning Your Cake Piping Design. Not held dead on at right angles. Stop pressure when the bag is in the centre of the swirl then push the bag down and draw up sharply to finish.

Start the next shell at the end of the previous shells tail so theres enough room for the frosting to fluff out and cover the end of the previously piped shell. The star is perhaps one of the easiest and most versatile of the beginner piping techniques. I know you love making cakes and want to try so many diff designs but dont feel like wasting extra budget and money yet on cooking real buttercream icing while you still feel like practicing your piping skills.

Typically I would have started by piping all the yellow flowers first. Use a large star or plain nozzle hold the bag vertically and pipe a ring of icing around the edge of the cupcake. Squeeze and allow the frosting to fluff out.

Pipe a smaller ring overlapping the first. Pipes are used for making several types of decorations on cakes such as frosting decoration and filling. To pipe swirls on cupcakes.

Here are a few of the ways you can do piping to give your cake some flair. Do mock buttercream instead of a real one. For other cake decorating techniques see my Beginners Guide to Cake Decorating.

Easy to make reusable practice buttercream to practice your piping. Then snuck the side of the piping bag right up next to the cake almost touching it so the dot pipes out of the bag to the left because youre holding the bag sideways to the cake border and the point will be covered by the next dot. You can also switch up decorating supplies and use tip 2A or tip 2D for a different look and texture.