Browse Decorating Techniques

Covering the Cupcake Using Ganache, Candy Melts or poured icings

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

You can't go wrong with any of these delicious coatings. Each will give cupcakes, mini cakes and other baked goods a beautiful finish — choose the look you want for your event.

Cow

Difficulty: Medium

Your piped animals can be as lifelike or cartoonish as you want them to be. Begin with a base and add familiar shapes such as dots, balls and strings that give your figure personality.

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.

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.

Curlicues

Difficulty: Easy

You know how much flair curling ribbon adds to a package. Here's the easy way to make fondant curls. Curliques also are great used for hair, tails and confetti streamers.

Daffodil

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The sequence of piping the Daffodil is the same for both the narcissus and the jonquil. These smaller flowers have white tip 103 petals—the narcissus features a yellow throat and red trim, jonquils have yellow centers.

Daisy

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Try some fun color combinations–yellow petals with yellow or blue centers, violet or blue petals with yellow centers and peach petals with orange centers. Highlight centers with Wilton Cake Sparkles™ or colored sugars.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.