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Piping a Flower on a Cupcake
Difficulty: Medium
A cupcake top is the perfect spot to plant a flower! Think of the circular surface as a flower nail on which you can pipe petals for a larger-than-life blossom. This technique will work for larger petal tips, such as tip 125 used here. Try your favorite petal shapes to create your own fantasy flower.
Elephant Trunk
Difficulty: Medium
For the elephant trunk, use two lengths of plastic dowel rods as your guide, inserted in your stand-up rubber ducky cake before it is decorated. Cover the pieces with stars when the cake is complete.
Roses
Difficulty: Medium
Create this magnificant rose—the most popular icing flower of them all. With practice, your roses will have the just-picked look of real fresh garden roses!
Reverse Shell
Difficulty: Medium
Reverse shells look spectacular as top and bottom borders and as framed areas on your cake.
Mice
Difficulty: Medium
To figure pipe mice with an oval shaped body, you will simply pull out the end of a dot. These quick and easy characters can be piped directly on your cake or cupcakes.
Chicks Sitting
Difficulty: Medium
This fun fowl is easy to figure pipe directly on your cake using stiff buttercream. Or, you can make them in advance using stiff royal icing on a waxed paper-covered cake board. If made in advance, be sure to store them away from bright or fluorescent light to prevent colors from fading.
Lilac
Difficulty: Medium
For a life-like Lilac, tiny blossoms are attached in clusters over an elongated shell-shaped base. Arrange them on a cake top to create a memorable springtime treat!
Chrysanthemum (Mum)
Difficulty: Medium
The Chrysanthemum is a fall classic that’s easier to pipe than you would think. The secret to success--the curved opening of specialty tip #81 used with a simple leaf-making motion.
Vintage Sweet Pea
Difficulty: Medium
Sweet peas look even sweeter with a back petal to frame the top cupped petals. It’s a great way to add dimension and show off the color of this classic flower.
Sheep
Difficulty: Medium
You can count on our Sheep to draw attention to your cake. The figure piped body is rich with detail like the tapering snout, petal-shaped ears and shell-motion wool.
