Basic Decorating Techniques

Celebrate with Christmas Trees

As the holiday draws near spruce up your cakes and gingerbread houses with these festive trees.

Getting Ready

Insert coupler base in your Featherweight bag and lock tip 352 onto it with your coupler ring.

Fill bag half full with medium consistency Royal Icing for practice.

Tip: specialty tips 233 and 352
Icing: medium consistency royal icing
Positions:
- Bag: 90° angle at 6:00
- Tips: slightly above the surface

Sequence:
1. Cover tree former with wax paper.
2. With royal icing and tip 352 pipe a line of icing around base of cone.
3. Pipe 352 leaf petals.
4. Randomly add 233 pine needles.
5. Continue to pipe leaves and pine needles.

Wrap wax paper around tree former and secure with tape. Tuck excess wax paper under opening of former. Hold tree former in your left (right) hand. As you pipe the rows of petals turn the former out to the ends of your fingers the same way you would turn your flower nails. Using royal icing and tip 352 pipe a line of icing around base of cone. Now pipe a row of 352 leaves around base turning the former as you work. Continue to pipe 352 leaves, randomly adding 233 pine needles until you reach the top. Let dry-when dry, remove from former and push excess wax paper up inside hollow tree.

Note: Ice Cream Cones may be substituted for the tree former.