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Created On Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:34 PM
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DallasCakeMan


Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:49 PM

Just wondering if anyone else has used the triple star tip. I decorated (and ate, mmm it was good) a Scooby Doo cake last night and used the #16 star for the tight spots and around the edges. I then broke out the triple star tip to fill in and the stars it made were just awful. I put out 6 of them, saw how awful they were and went and finished the cake one star at a time.

Do I just have a bum tip?

P.S. I'll post pic of scooby once I get him off the digital camera.


 
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Jeanne G


Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:30 PM

I use it when I have a large area of one color to do. In what way was it awful for you?
 
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peg


Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:30 PM

When using that tip you have to be very careful to lift the tip up before moving on to the next set of stars. Its very easy to drag the tip and mess up what you are piping. Give it another try, and see if you can get it to work, it does take some practice.

 
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DallasCakeMan


Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:16 PM

Jeanne G,

I was using it for the large area of brown. The reason I said it looked awful was because it made much bigger stars than the 16 tip. But mostly because they were squishy and not well formed, the almost looked soft. I was using the exact same icing in my other bag that i had the single 16 tip on and those stars were perfect.

Peg,

I was having no problem with dragging the tip. The stars were just blobby rather than well formed like my 16 tip was doing.


I did examine my tip better last night and it seems that the 16 tip has a much smaller hole. The triple tip appears to have the jagged edges straight up and down where as my #16 the jagged edges point inwards.
 
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Jeanne G


Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:31 PM

You are correct. The triple star matches up better to tip 18, I think.
 
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peg


Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:31 PM

You can bend those edges inward somewhat, becareful not to break any off. I also think (maybe wrong about this) that the star tip in the triple tip is an 18 not a 16.

 
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selina


Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:34 PM

Hi Dallas man,
Try using that tip to make shells, it makes a very large but impressive 2 layer shell. Good for use on larger cakes. Make sure that 2 openings are at the bottom and the other one on top in the middle. And the openings are sized as an 18.

Not too far from Dallas myself,
selina

 
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