Browse Decorating Techniques

Color Flow Dragging

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Add detail and interest to decorated cookies while still maintaining the smooth, sophisticated look.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Difficulty: Easy

Create brightly colored eggs this Easter using Wilton Gel Food Colors or Icing Colors!

Coloring the Cookie Dough

Difficulty: Easy

Add rich tones and subtle character to cookies just by adding Wilton Icing Colors to dough before baking!

Combing a Cake

Difficulty: Easy

Create a textured surface on the cake sides.

Corn

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Try our golden ears of corn on your cakes and cupcakes—for summertime or Thanksgiving. The easy bead kernels and pull-out leaves create a freshly-picked look.

Cornelli Lace

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

The perfect look for formal presentations, such as wedding and anniversary cupcakes. The precise, lacy design of this freehand technique depends on the continuous curving strings that do not overlap or touch.

Covering a Cookie with Cookie Icing

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Wilton Cookie Icing covers cookies with a shiny finish and dries quickly for easy stacking. It’s great for decorating fun designs too.

Covering a Pop with Sprinkles

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

For quick party pops, after you dip in candy, do a second dip in Wilton Sprinkles! Whether you use nonpareils, jimmies or colored sugars, you’ll have an instant colorful treat everyone will love.

Covering Cupcakes with a Round Tip Swirl

Difficulty: Easy

Your homemade cupcakes will be even more tempting when you add a pretty peak of icing on top! We used tip 2A here, but any large round tip will work.

Covering Large Cupcakes with Rolled Fondant

Difficulty: Easy

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.

Creasing Sugar Sheets

Difficulty: Easy

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

Creating 3-D Candies

Difficulty: No reviews

Many Wilton candy molds are great shapes for 3-D candies. It’s easy—just attach two molded candies together with Candy Melts candy.

Creating Color Effects

Difficulty: Difficult

Use food-safe Wilton Pearl Dust and Color Dust to brush or paint hints of contrasting color on your decorations.