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.

Drizzling

Difficulty: Easy

Add artistic flair to cookies with just a drizzle of icing or melted candy. Drizzles don’t have to be straight lines–try spirals, zigzags, and swirls, too.

Drop Strings

Difficulty: Medium

Watch our online video. Precise measurements are vital to perfect stringwork. You will need to evenly divide your project with the cake dividing set and lightly mark the desired depth of each arc before you begin.

E-Motion

Difficulty: Easy

E-Motion works best for bottom borders or western lariats. If you need to change positions while piping a border, push in tip at the end of the “e” and continue for a smooth look.

E-motion on a Gingerbread House

Difficulty: No reviews

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.

Elves

Difficulty: Medium

Working with fondant is much like shaping figures out of clay. These impish Elves, supported by lollipop sticks and wooden skewers hidden inside, bring seasonal flavor to your table.

Eyeball Candies

Difficulty: Somewhat Difficult

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.

Fantasy Flowers

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Delicate white dotted flowers built on a star — a perfect look for winter wedding cupcakes and holiday designs.

Fantasy Gumpaste Flowers

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The heart-shaped petals of these fantasy flowers can be made with any size heart cutter. For a smaller flower, use the smallest cutter from the nesting heart cutter set.

Fern

Difficulty: Easy

The airy look of the Fern provides the touch of greenery a cake top bouquet needs. For each frond, pipe a series of leaves which get gradually smaller as you approach the top.

Figure Piped Baby Heads

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

A Figure Piped Baby Head may be all you need to turn a plain cupcake into a shower success! Pipe in advance, using a simple ball head, features and a cute ruffle bonnet.

Figure Piping

Difficulty: Medium

Filling a Cupcake

Difficulty: Easy

Fillings are thrilling (and easy) additions to baked cupcakes! Just use a Wilton tip, such as the Bismarck tip 230, to pipe in whipped topping, pie filling, peanut butter and jelly, or flavored mousse.

Fleur De Lis

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Formerly a symbol of the royal coat of arms of France, this impressive decoration is now generally synonymous with anything French. The swirled shells represent a lily. Watch our online video.