Frosting Decoration Basics- Part 1

Hello, Everybody! Welcome to Frosting Decoration Basics, where I'm going to explain the basics of how to decorate with frosting from the very beginning! This will be a three part series.

In Part 1:

• Coloring Frosting
• Decorating Bags
• Round Tips
• Star Tips

Coloring Frosting-

First, you're going to need frosting. You can check out my buttercream frosting recipe here or you could try out my sugar-free cream cheese frosting recipe here. Separate the amount of frosting you want for each color into separate bowls. Add the food dye to get the colors you want. If you want some more information about food dye, you can find it in my post all about food coloring here.

Decorating Bags-

Tip & Coupler:

The first thing you're going to need is a coupler. A coupler has two pieces (labeled in picture)

Next, you're going to need a decorating tip. There are many different shapes and sizes to choose from depending on what you're making. The two tips talked about in this part are round tips and star tips.

Coupler

Inserting the Decorating Tip into the Decorating Bag:

1. Place the decorating tip onto the first piece of the coupler.
2. Cut the tip off of the decorating bag.
3. Put the tip with the piece of the coupler into the bag and push to the end until the tip is poking out of the opening you cut in the bag.
4. Screw the second piece of the coupler on the first piece over the bag to keep everything in place.

Filling the Decorating Bag:

1. First, place the bag into a tall drinking cup/glass with the tip at the bottom and fold the top edges of the bag around the rim of the cup/glass. This makes it much easier and less messy to fill the bag with frosting.
2. Next, just use a spoon to scoop the frosting into the bag.
3. Finally, remove the bag from the cup/glass. Lay it flat on the counter, and then push all the frosting down toward the tip until it start to come out of the tip. You want to make sure a little of it comes out of the tip to remove the air from the bag. Then twist the bag just above the frosting to keep it inside.

Decorating:

The important thing to remember is to apply light pressure at the top to push the frosting down (towards the tip) and keep it from oozing out of the opening at the top and making a huge mess.

Round & Star Tips-
Round decorating tips and star decorating tips come in a large variety of sizes. A larger tip is great for decorating the tops of cupcakes with large swirls. You can also use these types of tip for a variety of different borders for decorating cakes. Smaller round tips work well for more intricate details like designs or letters/words.

Round Tips

Star Tips

Star Tip Decorating Idea

Thanks for reading!

-Ally
Edited by: Monica M.

Technical Difficulties

Hello! I haven't posted anything in a while because most of the things I had planned recently were intended to have videos to accompany them. However, I have been having some problems with my video camera and have not been able to make these videos. So, for now, I will just post them with pictures (possibly in the form of a video, only with pictures instead of actual video clips). I hope to be able to create and add videos for the posts later, once I resolve the camera issues. Thanks for being patient.

-Ally