6 Basic Piping Techniques | Cake Decorating

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And there are a few different basic techniquesfor piping. You can either start with a very
French thing we do in my culinary school wouldbe rosettes. So a very simple things is just
to kind of push down and twist around andyou have a beautiful little rosette. And you
could do those kind of all around your cakeas a cute little border. Just a few every
now and again. Put some sprinkles. If youhave your little round this is great. And
by the way you can see that I'm not overfillingmy bags. The longer you hold the bag with
your hand that heat from you will start tomelt to frosting, so just as little as you
can get by with. And keep refilling as yougo will keep your frosting nice and stiff.
But all I want to do with this is if I wascreating a border I would push and pull towards
me you can see that that makes sort of a teardrop kind of a shape. And then go back in
and push and pull towards me and same thingover and over again. And try to keep the pressure
nice and even. It's like little beads. Makinga little necklace and that's perfect as a
border. You can go all around your cake. We'llactually get more into that in another video.
But with this lovely thing, you could do...Let's see how this comes out. I mean with
all of these you could kind of play aroundand do anything you like. But if you want
to do like little swoops, very fun. Kind ofall-around just big swoopy motions. And then
my favorite is the star tip what these arecalled are shells. I never get to put frosting
on the table. This is like every fantasy cometrue. Again you could kind of push and pull
towards you make little shells. Or this isgreat for little rosettes or a hundred other
things really.
Always just have fun with it. If you wantedto do a little lace I could go back to my
circle tip this is great also for little dotskind of all over. Or if I wanted to do a big
squiggly, it's going to look crazy but onceit's all over your cake, imagine how kind
of cool that could look like all around theedge like very avante garde. We can get very
whatever we want to do. But remember whateveryou're doing whatever you're piping it's just
frosting in a bag. So as long as your pushingin a nice even motion and getting a nice clean
design in the way that you want it you'llalways be a success. This article is from web site cake-for-you.com