How To Do Rose Piping On Cupcakes

Continue piping smaller and smaller circles on top of one another.

How to do rose piping on cupcakes. Without releasing pressure raise the tip a little bit and move it slightly to the side. Using steady pressure pipe a tight spiral around the cupcake. Form a rose by starting to pipe a dot of frosting on the middle of the cupcake building it a little high and then make a turn and go as tight as you can spiraling around the mound of the dot.

Youre going to do one two three. Use the bag with the plain round tip to pipe a mound of icing in the center of a cupcake. Start from the middle and pipe a small amount of buttercream into the centre.

Once your rose has set you can carefully move it from the parchment paper onto a cupcake pipe a small bit of buttercream on top of your cake for it to stick using a pair of small scissors. Slowly work your way around going anti-clockwise until you reach the outer edge of your cupcake. Do this till you get the desired shape of your rose.

Traditionally zigzags are piped with a star tip like tip 16 but you can create this technique with any decorating tip youd like. Youre not going to move your hand with the piping bag just spin your cupcake. Stop squeezing the bag before you pull away from the cupcake.

Xanthe Milton teaches you to pipe rosettes on cupcakes. Were going to go in an arch motion. Squeeze to form the center of the swirl.

You need to be close to the cupcake but not pushing onto it this allows room for the star to be formed. Squeeze gently then stop squeezing and pull away. When piping zigzags think about the movement of your arm and the pressure on your bag.