Buttercream Cupcake Piping Techniques #8

One thing I love to do is pipe cupcakes and recently I have been seeing cupcakes with more than one style of piping on the top are becoming really popular. If you’re new to piping cupcakes it can be hard to know which piping tips to use, so for this weeks video tutorial I am creating some really fun cupcakes using 4 different piping tips all on the same cupcake. This is a great effect and can be made in any colour, you can also use this same technique to cover the side of a cake or even the top of a tray bake.

In the tutorial you will see for these cupcakes I used the Wilton #105 piping tip to create a rolling wave / shell effect on the side of the cake, pushing the buttercream towards the edge and coming back on itself. The #105 nozzle gives a really fun texture to the design. I then used the 2D closed star tip to create the classic rosette swirl, starting from the center and working my piping bag around. I think my favourite effect is the turquoise wave along the side which is created by placing the wider section of the #104 rose tip ontop of the cupcake and working back and forth to fill the space. The last space was then filled with some little buttercream star domes using the small open star #22 tip.

The cupcakes were then finished with the Cotton Candy sprinkle mix by Happy Sprinkles, which includes hundreds and thousands, star and hearts, coloured chocolate and metallic balls and long metallic pink strands. Happy Sprinkles have kindly given me a 10% off discount code for me to share with you. To receive 10% off Happy Sprinkles all you need to do is visit their website www.happysprinkles.de or The Cake Decorating Company and enter the code HAPPYLYNZ10 at the checkout! (This code can not be combined with any other discounts)

I really hope you will find this tutorial useful and will be able to use some of these techniques on your own cakes. If you’re new to piping then make sure you also check out the rest of my piping techniques series of tutorials. Plus if you haven’t already you can subscribe to my YouTube channel for more Free cake decorating video tutorials.

I have put a list below showing all the tools that I used throughout this video or if you would like to see all my favourite cake decorating tools just click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/cakesbylynz

Happy Sprinkles Cotton Candy: https://bit.ly/34S9zbZ
Piping bags I use: http://amzn.to/2xqeDlM
2D piping tip: https://amzn.to/3hPWwMX
105 piping tip (part of a set): https://amzn.to/33Ev40q
104 piping tip: https://amzn.to/3iCbbv6
22 piping tip: https://amzn.to/3dmvV9n
Piping bags I use: http://amzn.to/2xqeDlM
Raspberry Colour Splash: https://amzn.to/2XSvYF2
Violet Colour Splash: https://amzn.to/30fm7ZF
Light pink Colour Splash: https://amzn.to/2GunQU1
Blue Colour Splash: https://amzn.to/33Fz1BN
Jade Colour Splash: https://amzn.to/3llVEBe

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