How To Make Cake Piping

Using a star nozzle and dot.

How to make cake piping. Take border piping one step further using a leaf tip 113 to pipe rows of ruffles around the side of a cake. Heres one way to make it a whole lot easier and less messy. Pipe a smaller ring overlapping the first.

Why stop with just the bottom or top of a cake. To make dots hold the bag vertically with the nozzle close to the surface squeeze a little icing out to make a dot the desired size then to finish stop squeezing push down and then draw up sharply. Use a large star or plain nozzle hold the bag vertically and pipe a ring of icing around the edge of the cupcake.

Rolled fondant icing is used to cover cakes to get a clean smooth surface Frosting. But the most important is the color combination. Twist the bag to hold the icing.

When finished place the bag on a flat surface. You will get better. The lace piping around sides would also make a pretty border or cascade if you dont want to completely cover the sides of the tier in piping.

And filling a piping bag can get really messy. Piping gel is often used to give cakes the glass effect such as stained glass cakes. Open the bag until you cover the edges of the glass so that you have the right cavity to add the filling.

The piping tip I used did not have a coupler. Fit a piping bag with a small round tip then fill with the remaining dibs and dabs of green buttercream. And that was exactly the situation I faced when I was decorating my orange cake above.