now just take a look at this now believe it or not all these designs were piped using the holy
grail of piping tips called the 1m piping tip and in today's video i'm going to be showing
you guys the infinite number of ways that you can pipe using just this one piping tip let's do this
so let's start off by filling our piping bag so before you do this you want to make sure the
frosting that you're filling your piping bag with is super smooth i like to hand mix mine like this
before i fill my piping bag today i'm going for a two-tone effect so i've got some white buttercream
and some pink now to fill my piping bag i'm placing my piping tip in and pushing it to
the bottom and then i'm just pushing it back slightly and cutting off the tip of my piping bag
this just helps to make sure you're not cutting off too much of your piping bag
now to fill my piping bag with buttercream i'm turning out the top of the piping bag and placing
it in my hand if you're not using a two-tone effect there is an easier way to do this which
i demonstrate in my beginner's piping tutorial which i'll post a link to below so i'm starting
off by covering the outer edges of the piping bag with pink buttercream until it's well covered
and then i'm filling the middle with white buttercream and pushing that down with my spatula
now to finish i'm twisting the top of my piping bag so my buttercream doesn't come out the other
way and then squeezing the buttercream through until the two-tone effect starts to appear
now let's start piping so the first design i'm going to show you is a really easy one
and all you do is hold your piping bag so the tip is facing downwards
and simply apply a little pressure and pull upwards and you get this cute little star flower
and continue to pipe this way until the top is completely covered
next is a really similar design except you're going to apply a little less pressure and pull
away quicker so that the little star flower is smaller and you're going to pipe at a slight
angle around the edges of the cupcake and then continue to pipe inwards until your
cupcake is completely covered and you end up with this really cute ruffled flower look
for the next design you're going to apply some pressure while keeping your tip in
the middle of the cupcake and then quickly move your hand up and down
as you slowly lift your piping bag and this gives you a cute ruffle with a tip
next is a classic cupcake swirl so you want to start in the middle and make a
circular shape until the bottom of the cupcake is covered then slowly
bring your piping bag up and make smaller circles as you reach the top of the swirl
next is similar to a cupcake swirl except you're going to start on the outside and apply a bit more
pressure as you slowly move your piping bag around the cupcake and then once you've come back to the
beginning start piping on top of the buttercream you've already piped but now you're going to make
smaller circles as you reach the tip of your swirl this gives more of a ruffle look to your cupcake
next is a simple rosette so the easiest way to pipe a rosette is to follow the
shape of a lowercase e so to do this you want to start in the middle go a
little to the right and then go around and flick away at the end
now you can also pipe smaller rosettes so here i'm piping
three little rosettes on the top of my cupcake
now next i'm making a similar design to the ruffled cupcake swirl that we did earlier
except i'm going to stop piping once the cupcake is covered so it's more of a flatter design
for this next design i'm piping little shells on the top of my cupcake
so all you do is hold your piping tip at a slight angle and as you apply some pressure
kind of swing your piping tip slightly and then bring it back and flick away
next i'm doing a simple zigzag design so start on one side
of the cupcake and simply go back and forth until it's fully covered
next i'm piping a double zigzag so one zigzag is covering half of my cupcake
and then the other zigzag the other half of the cupcake
now you can also combine different designs together so for this cupcake
i'm piping three mini rosettes and the little star flowers around them
for this next design i've also combined two techniques
so i'm starting off by piping little star flowers around the outside of the cupcake
and then i'm filling the middle with a high ruffle using that quick up and down technique
now for this next design i'm piping little flowers again around the outside of the cupcake and this
time i'm filling in the middle with a swirl i'm kind of just making up these designs as i
go to show you guys just how many different ways you can pipe with this tip so just get creative
this next design is a really cute one and it's basically just overlapping little rosettes
now you can also see here that i'm holding my cupcake as i pipe now i find piping on
cupcakes a lot easier this way but it is harder if you've got a lot of buttercream in your piping bag
so by this point i had used up a lot of my buttercream so it was much easier to hold my
piping bag with one hand but as you practice you'll figure out what works best for you
now with this last design i'm piping mini rosettes on half of my cupcake
and then the other half has shells on them and this is probably one of my favorite combos
so there you go next time you need to decorate some cupcakes and you have no
idea what to do go grab yourself a 1m piping tip i hope you all enjoyed this video please
give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you did apart from that i'll see you in the next one