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Print Writing

Print Writing
Add that special touch to your cake with your special someone's name.
  • Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients

  • Buttercream Frosting

  • Tools

  • Round Cake Decorating Tip 2

  • Disposable Decorating Bags

  • Standard Coupler

Instructions

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  1. Use a decorating bag with round tip 3 and thin consistency icing. Right-handers hold bag at a slight angle (45°) with back of bag pointed at you for vertical lines and pointed to the right for horizontal and curving lines. Left-handers hold bag at slight angle (45°) with back of bag pointed at you for vertical lines and pointed to the left for horizontal and curving lines.
  2. Touch the tip to the surface and start squeezing to attach the icing.
  3. Raise the tip slightly and with steady pressure, squeeze out a straight line, lifting the tip off the surface to let the icing string drop.
  4. Stop squeezing, touch the tip to the surface, pull the tip away. Be sure the end of the tip is clean before you go on to another line.

Notes

  • -Letters can be piped freehand or lightly marked with a toothpick and traced over. -Adding piping gel to thinned icing will help your lines flow without breaking. Add 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 g) of piping gel per cup. -When decorating your cake, the message i

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