Browse Decorating Techniques

1M Swirl

Difficulty: Easy

Here is another quick way to decorate your cupcakes or cakes. It just takes minutes to pipe a fancy iced swirl and add colorful sprinkles.

5-Petal Flower

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The delicate blossoms of the 5-petal flower are made on a plastic wrap-covered flower nail. The wrap conforms to the shape of petals better than waxed paper and makes lifting easy.

Add a Mini Brownie to the Center of a Cupcake

Difficulty: Easy

No one can resist this fudgy delight!

Adding a Mini Cheesecake to the Center of a Cupcake

Difficulty: No reviews

This is a great combination with cupcake flavors, such as chocolate, orange, peanut butter and strawberry.

Adding a Mini Pie to the Center of a Cupcake

Difficulty: No reviews

Fruit filling turns cupcakes into a little slice of heaven!

Adding Mix-Ins to Batter

Difficulty: Easy

Perk up your cupcakes by adding in fun flavors and textures!

Adding Store-Bought Sweets to the Center of a Cupcake

Difficulty: No reviews

A standard baking cup is the perfect size for a sandwich cookie, vanilla wafer, ginger snap or peanut butter cup.

Apple Blossoms

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

This springtime flower is virtually the same as the wild rose, but uses a smaller tip. Pipe apple blossoms about the size of a penny and dry them on flower formers.

Apples

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

A great party pick. You can pipe the royal icing fruit in advance, including stems and leaves. At serving time, just position as needed on your iced cake or cupcake. Or make your fruit directly on your cake in buttercream icing.

Applying Fondant to Fondant

Difficulty: Easy

Quick tip on how to attach your fondant accents to your fondant covered cake.

Aster

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The aster is such a popular flower, due to its textured sunburst of petals that point almost straight up. Great for Mother’s Day or shower cakes. They can be made ahead of time using Royal Icing or piped directly on your cake using Buttercream Icing.

Baby

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Make your own shower topper! It's easy when you use rolled fondant. Just roll out and cut the baby with our metal gingerbread boy cutter, then attach to a lollipop stick and insert in the cake. You can also make smaller sized babies using a mini gingerbread boy cutter for a cupcake.

Baby Booties

Difficulty: Easy

The perfect little topper for your baby shower cupcakes.

Baby Bunnies

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

These baby bunnies are the cutest cottontails around! Easy to make, with a big ball head, pointy pull-out ears and little dot cheeks.

Bachelor Button

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The handsome Bachelor Button is an excellent choice on men's cakes and in summer floral arrangements. They look terrific in blue, white, pink or lavender.

Ball

Difficulty: Easy

The ball shape makes bold borders and is the first step to learn for figure piping. Vary the basic look by adding stars, dots or spirals on the ball shapes.