Tips For Decorating
How to make cornelli lace decoration:
1. Fill pastry bag about half way with thin icing. Attach
tip #1 to pastry bag. Buttercream or royal icing work best.
2. Position the bag slightly less of a 90 degree angle to start.
3. Get close enough to the cake with the icing tip that
the icing attaches to the cake but be careful to watch out for
scraping the cake with the tip or flattening out
the icing strings as you decorate.
4. Begin at the edge of the cake, where it will later on
be covered by a border, and pipe a meandering, squiggling line.
Lines should go up and down and look like "R" or "S".
5. Watch that the lines never cross and always begin and
end at the edge of the cake.
6. Once all is dried you can put a border or more piping can continue.
How to make a shell border:
1. Fill the pastry bag about half way with medium
consistency icing. Use tip #21 on the pastry bag.
2. Start by placing the pastry bag at a 45 degree
angle, with the tip slightly above the cakes surface.
3. Squeeze the icing out letting the icing fan out
and pushing the tip up from the cake.
4. Reduce your pressure as you lower the icing tip
bringing it back down to the cake.
5. Completely relax the pressure but don't pull the
tip away from the surface until you bring the shell to a point.
6. To create the border, place another "shell" right
after the previous, bringing the fanned end of the
new shell right up to the tail end of the previous.
7. You can place them 1/4 inch apart creating a thinner
border or place them closer to create a tighter
thicker border for the cake.
How to make drop flowers
1. Fill the pastry bag about half way with medium
consistency icing. Use tip #2D.
2. Start with the tip at a 90 degree angle,
touching the cake.
3. Begin with the flat of your knuckles at 9:00
and turn hand holding bag while squeezing
out the icing until you hit 12:00.
4. Stop squeezing and pull tip away.
5. Finish the flower with a dot of icing in the
middle using a pastry bag tipped with tip # 3.*
Make sure the dot has a rounded top.
