Browse Decorating Techniques

Pull-Out Star

Difficulty: Easy

The star tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The pull-out star technique can be used for fun, furry creatures, or for textured hair for your cakes.

Pumpkins

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Pumpkins get their segmented look by piping a series of curved outlines from edges to center with heavy pressure.

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.

Reverse Shell

Difficulty: Medium

Reverse shells look spectacular as top and bottom borders and as framed areas on your cake.

Ribbon Roses

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Rope

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

A wonderful technique for finishing your piped baskets with pretty edging and handles. Excellent too for western or nautical theme cakes. You can make a great looking rope with round or star tips.

Rosebud

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Finish your petit fours or cupcakes with one pretty Rosebud. Made in buttercream, this flat flower can be piped directly on the cake in your favorite colors.

Rosebud With Side Petals

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The Half Rose is really a rosebud with two side petals. You can also give your half roses a fuller look by adding two or three more side petals.

Roses

Difficulty: Medium

Create this magnificant rose—the most popular icing flower of them all. With practice, your roses will have the just-picked look of real fresh garden roses!

Rosette

Difficulty: Easy

The rosette has the tight, swirling look of a rose, but is achieved in one continuous rotation, rather than with wrapped layers of petals. Single rosettes are also used as candleholders on top of a cupcake.

Ruffle

Difficulty: Easy

Ruffles add a decorative top border to your cakes or cupcakes. Pipe ruffles around plaques or to trim doll dresses or bonnets.

Santa and Sleigh

Difficulty: No reviews

With Santa and Sleigh, you have the makings of a festive holiday design. Great for a sheet cake top or flying around the side of a round cake.

Script Writing

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Personalize a celebration cake with a message written in perfect penmanship! Achieving beautiful results is easier than you might think, following these easy steps. And, practice makes perfect!

Shaggy Mum

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Sheep

Difficulty: Medium

You can count on our Sheep to draw attention to your cake. The figure piped body is rich with detail like the tapering snout, petal-shaped ears and shell-motion wool.

Shell

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The Shell is the most popular icing technique of all. It’s the basis for many borders, fleurs de lis and more. Lift the tip only slightly when piping to avoid a bumpy look.