Browse Decorating Techniques

Dots

Difficulty: Easy

Pipe dots for flower centers, faces, figure piping and border effects. When making large dots, lift the tip as you squeeze to allow icing to fill out completely.

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.

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.

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 Piping

Difficulty: Medium

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.

Fleurs de lis Vase

Difficulty: No reviews

Using classic fleurs de lis as a topiary for tiny drop flowers is an elegant and creative touch that will help your cake stand apart.

Flute

Difficulty: Easy

Decorators love adding elegant Flutes to accent a row of shells—it’s so easy! Add a bit more spacing between shells to prevent flutes from crushing the shells’ delicate ridges.

Frosting Bows

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Making frosting bows is such a pretty finishing touch for floral cakes. Use petal tip 104 and a figure 8 motion to create the elegant loops. Using a round or star tip can give your bows a different look.

Ghosts

Difficulty: Easy

Ghosts are a frightfully fast way to add spirit to Halloween cupcakes, cookies and brownies. With a ball head and pull-out body, it's an accent anyone can perfect.

Giraffe

Difficulty: No reviews

Think of the Giraffe as a number 7 shape, with a pull-out line for the neck and the head. Easy dot features are then added on top.

Graduates

Difficulty: No reviews

Make a plain cupcake the perfect graduation cupcake by adding these fun fondant students to the sides. They're a breeze to cut, shape and decorate using a cookie cutter and royal icing.

Grapes

Difficulty: Easy

You can pipe the fruit directly on your cake or cupcake in buttercream, then add your stems and leaves.

Grass

Difficulty: Easy

The grass tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the grass tip makes ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Our step-by-step video shows you how!

Half Carnation

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The Half Carnation achieves the beautiful ruffled effect of a full carnation, piped directly on your cake. Be sure to use stiff consistency icing to hold each petal’s shape.

Heart

Difficulty: Easy

Go ahead, show them how much you love them by embellishing your cakes with these sweet hearts.