Browse Decorating Techniques

Drizzled Decorations

Difficulty: Easy

Top off your dipped treats with drizzled candy in a contrasting color. A little touch that easily dresses your treats.

Layered Candy (Multi Colored Candy)

Difficulty: Easy

The layered look is one of the most pleasing ways to mold candy—and one of the easiest. A great idea for holiday candies: red, green and white for Christmas, lavender, yellow and white for Easter, orange, yellow and chocolate for Halloween.

Marbleizing Candy

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Add some richness to your boxed assortments by including some luxurious swirled colors.

Candy Cordials and Liquor Cups

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

If you're looking for something easy and elegant for desserts or party trays, here's a delicious idea. Serve candy shells filled with fruit, mousse or liqueur! We've made the candies shown here in the Wilton Cordial Cups Mold, but Wilton has many other products that will work beautifully. The procedure is much like that for making filled candy—without sealing the top.

Nut Center Chocolates

Difficulty: Easy

The combination of a salty, crunchy nut surrounded by sweet, smooth candy is irresistible—and it's also very easy to do. Use your favorites, such as almonds, pecans and macadamias and follow the simple steps below.

Bowler

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The bowler is right up your alley if you want an easy-to-do figure piped decoration. Build the body with basic mound and ball piping, then add the arms and a bowling ball candle.

Cherub

Difficulty: Easy

Everyone smiles back at the sweet cherubs on your cake! Basic fondant shapes create the body; the wings are heart cut-outs, cut in half, then trimmed with feathered slits. To make 3-D cherubs, make sure you start 2 days ahead of time to allow for drying.

Dog

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

A dog is also a decorator’s best friend—it’s so easy to figure pipe on a cupcake or cake. A series of balls and oblong shapes, topped off with pull-out dot fur, is all you need to pipe this pup.

Eyelet Lace

Difficulty: Medium

Fondant panels take on the delicate beauty of an embroidered cloth using an Eyelet Lace technique. The narrow end of a tip cuts precise holes; use tip 1s to add finely woven details.

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.

Cow Heads

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Figure pipe cow heads using a variety of basic techniques, including shell motion head and petal motion ears, dot features and pull-out hair.

Applying Pearl Dust and/or Color Dust to Sugar Sheets

Difficulty: Easy

Bring out the color of your Sugar Sheets! flowers with a few brushstrokes of Wilton Pearl Dust or Color Dust. Use a contrasting shade to highlight the flower center or on petal edges.

Pleated Fan with Sugar Sheets

Difficulty: Easy

If you love the texture that draped fondant brings to your cakes, try this easy Sugar Sheets! technique. Flexibility makes Sugar Sheets! a great material for creating deeply ridged decorations.

Heart Candy Shell

Difficulty: Easy

There's nothing sweeter than a candy shell treat. Silicone molds offer great detail with amazingly easy release.

Creasing Sugar Sheets

Difficulty: Easy

Give Sugar Sheets! flower petals or leaves dimension by folding a gentle crease down the center.

Curliques with Sugar Sheets

Difficulty: Easy

Twisted strips of Sugar Sheets! make ideal streamers or curling ribbon to accent bows. They bring a sense of motion to any treat!