Basic Decorating Technqiues

Getting Started with Beads

If you can pipe a shell, you can pipe a bead–the movements are similar. To pipe a bead heart, simply pipe one bead, then a second, joining the tails. Smooth together using a decorator´s brush.

Getting Ready

Set up your practice board.

Insert a coupler base in your Featherweight bag and lock round tip 5 onto it with your coupler ring.

Fill bag half full with medium consistency Buttercream Icing.

Practice with: Tip 5
Icing: medium consistency
Positions:
Bag: 45° at 3:00 (9:00 for left handed decorating)
Tip: slightly above the surface

1. Squeeze as you lift tip slightly so that icing fans out.
2. Relax pressure as you draw the tip down and bring the bead to a point.
3. To make a bead border, start the end of your next bead so that the fanned end covers the tail of the preceding bead to form an even chain.