Use your cake decorating tools to their fullest potential and think beyond the instructions that come on the box! The grass icing tip or multi-opening piping tip Wilton can be used to create a ton of fun textures and designs.
Let me know what clever and creative uses you come up with! Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the grass tip is perfect for piping — you guessed it — grass! However, getting the grass to look exactly how you want may not be as obvious. Using buttercream at the right consistency is key. Too soft and the strands mush together; too firm and they crack and break. To pipe a tuft of grass, hold the end of the tip just above the surface of your cake.
Apply pressure and quickly release while pulling the tip up and away from the cake in a straight line. Image via Erin Bakes.
Pipe another circle on top of the first circle. Repeat, layering to build up the sides of the nest. Pipe eggs in the nest using a round tip, or add candy eggs or jelly beans. A buttercream wreath on top of a cake creates a gorgeous backdrop for a buttercream flower arrangement. When piped around the bottom of a cake, it makes for a lovely finishing border for any rustic-chic creation. Pipe a wreath in brown to resemble twigs or grapevine.
Use white for a wintery celebration cake, or choose yellows and oranges to mimic dried grasses or hay for an autumn-inspired cake. Use a grass tip to create the most adorable ball of yarn cupcakes anyone in your knitting circle has ever seen!
Fill your piping bag with a mix of white and colored buttercreams to add realism and texture to your yarn. Cover the surface of the cupcake with strands lined up in the same direction. Pipe the next layer of strands over the center of the cupcake in the opposite direction, leaving the piped ends of the first layer peeking through. Make oodles of noodles or mountains of spaghetti in a flash using a grass tip. Hold the bag steady while piping long strands of spaghetti.
Let the noodles fall flat as you release pressure and pull the bag away from the cake. Wiggle the tip back and forth or in a swirling motion to create springy ramen noodles. Image via Lyndsay Sung. Next to grass, fur or hair is probably the most common use for the grass icing tip. Line your tufts neatly in rows like Bluprint instructor Lyndsay Sung did for a tidy buttercream fur coat.
For a more wild, wooly look, pipe tufts at random and let the ends fall where they may. Buttercream flowers are back in style! Were they even really out? A simple but effective way to add complexity and detail to buttercream flowers is using a grass tip when piping the center or stamen. Pipe a dollop like you would to start most buttercream flowers as shown above before piping strands of yellow or green buttercream onto the top of the mound.
Pipe petals around the center, leaving the stamens exposed. For a quick and easy buttercream filler flower , start with the step for the center of the flower above. Instead of piping petals, continue piping yellow strands all the way around the mound of buttercream.
Pipe billy balls directly onto a cake to fill in gaps left behind by larger flowers or pipe them ahead of time and freeze before arranging on your cake. Use this piping tip to add large, prominent dots to your cake borders to make your cakes look even more appealing. Hold the piping bag straight up and swirl continuously to get classic cupcake swirls. Hold it at an angle, and you can create shell-shaped decorations! Image credit: Wilton.
The tighter ridges on this closed star tip create a more defined structure than open star tips. This characteristic makes closed star tips great for piping rosettes , flowers, and making swirls. You can also create pretty, detailed ruffles using this tip! Our Red Velvet Christmas baking kit comes with piping bags and a closed star tip that you can use to frost the tops and sides of the cake! Follow the tutorial video to model our frosting design, or get creative and make flowers, swirls, ruffles and more!
This large petal tip is great for creating frills, ruffled borders, and swags. To create delicate ruffles and petals with a defined structure, make sure the wider end is the closest to your cake, and the thinner end faces upwards.
Image credit: Wilton This small, round tip is perfect for making intricate designs. Use it to pipe dots, outlines, and rounded swirls.
Make simple but impressive leaf-shaped details with this piping tip. With its small-notched tip , you can quickly add ruffled leaves to your rosettes or buttercream flowers. Make various types of leaves by holding this tip at different angles, and find out what works best for you. This small petal tip is perfect for making tiny flowers and fine details.
Create individual little petals and arrange them into flowers, or use it to add small ruffles around your cake! The finely cut ridges of this piping tip will give your designs excellent details. Image credit: Walmart. Give your cakes an exciting texture using this basketweave tip. It could be jaggedy on one or both sides, and practising how to use this piping tip is not too challenging.
Just try making them evenly spaced, and you can turn anything into beautiful baskets! Besides grass, you can use a grass-shaped piping tip to make wreaths and pine trees, perfect for the Christmas season! Simply pipe, stop squeezing, pull away, and repeat. To give it a more natural look, pipe the grass shape slightly to the sides instead of straight up. With this piping tip set, you can step up your cake decorating game with just one squeeze! Experiment with the different patterns to create various flowers, succulents, and more.
Itching to exercise your cake decoration skills but don't want the hassles of finding a good recipe, purchasing and weighing all the different ingredients, and sourcing for all the tools required?
Each baking kit is based on a Bakestarters' original, tried-and-tested recipe, with detailed instructions for you to create your own layered cake from scratch. In each kit you'll find all the ingredients required to make the cake from scratch, in the amounts required so there's no mess or weighing involved. The kit also includes cold ingredients such as butter and cream cheese, along with extra cake decorating essentials such as piping bags and a star piping tip!
0コメント