Browse Decorating Techniques

Campers in Sleeping Bags

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Fast and fun to decorate, our campers in sleeping bags come together in a few easy steps. Simple bands of icing form the bag, then add a pillow and a figure piped camper.

Creating Lattice on the Side of a Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

The intersecting teardrop shapes provide heightened texture, especially if you fill in the spaces between teardrops with sugar pearls or piped dots or stars.

Curtain

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Diploma

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Eyeball Candies

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Fondant Lion

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Gum Paste Lily

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Lacework

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Lacework is well-suited to wedding, shower and fondant-covered cakes. Usually done in white on pastel cakes, lacework requires nearly perfect pressure control.

Lion

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

For jungle and circus themes, the Lion rules! Balls and dots combine to shape his head—you can use the same procedure for bears, hippos, dogs and other animals.

Painting Details in Lollipop Molds

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Adding color details to candies makes them more realistic and much more fun! For large areas of color, it's best to paint the melted candy right in the mold before the whole candy is molded using a decorator brush. Or, for very small details like vines, mouths and messages, melted candy should be piped onto molded candies using a parchment bag with a small hole cut in the tip.

Palm Tree

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Peony

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Delicate is the word for our Peony. Its whisper soft peach petals in gum paste and fondant, lightly ruffled and centered by a sunburst of stamens, make this a beautiful choice.

Petunia

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

For proper spacing of Petunia petals, try this trick. Pipe tip 103 dots of icing on top of lily nail, dividing in 5ths. Visualize the points of a star. Pipe each petal centered over its dot.

Reindeer

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

Decorating a figure in motion is one reason our Reindeer is so much fun. If you make Santa’s whole team, you can vary the fur color or accents—even add names to the cake.