Ruffle

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

Source: Decorating Cakes: A Reference & Idea Book

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instructions

Step 1

Bag Position: 45° at 3:00 (9:00 for left-handers). With wide end lightly touching surface and narrow end facing down and away, squeeze steadily. Move wrist up to pull up icing.

Step 2

Move wrist down to complete one curl of the ruffle.

Step 3

Repeat up and down motion.

Step 4

Raise and lower the narrow end as you move around the cake. Repeat this motion for the entire ruffle.


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easy buttercream technique