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If bag striping created a too bright of effect for you,
I'm going to show you a more softer, subtle technique called
spatula striping.
Rather than using straight icing color,
we're going to use colored buttercream
to create a really pretty color contrast in your decorating.
I've prepared two different colors of buttercream.
One's your accent color, and one's your base color.
You don't need quite as much of the accent color,
because we're just going to be using it to stripe
the inside of the bag.
I'm using a 12 inch decorator bag fitted with a 1M tip.
I'm going to go ahead and fold back the bag here just
a little bit.
So I'm cuffing my bag so I can go ahead and get
in here a little easier.
And I'm going to take my angled spatula,
and my accent color is pink.
I'm just going to go ahead and dip the spatula in here.
And I'm going to smear a vertical stripe of icing
right up the inside of the bag.
I'm going to put it just a little bit more icing here
inside, so that I can make sure my stripe is pretty solid.
It's actually just a smear right up the inside of the bag.
So I need to go ahead and clean my spatula between ice
and colors, because I want to make sure
that they don't blend too much.
And I'm going to take my base color,
and I'm going to very carefully fill this bag about half full
without disturbing my pink icing too much.
I'm going to go ahead and uncuff my bag
and twist the back of it.
We're going to be squeezing icing down
just a little bit carefully.
We're going to move these out of the way,
because we're going to need to get the icing color going.
It's going to take a few squeezes
to start seeing the color.
So let's get started with that.
Oh, wow.
It's coming straight out.
Now I'm going to show you how to pipe a cupcake swirl
with this really pretty colors.
It turned out so pretty.
I love this pink and orange combination.
I want to tell you a little bit about how this color
technique can add some really gorgeous contrast to any
of the petals you might pipe.
Spatula striping is used a lot for piping flowers especially
for piping petals, because you can create some really pretty
color effects.
I'm going to show you how this looks using a tip 104.
Since it has a wide end and a narrow end,
depending on where you place the color stripe
you can create a different look.
You can see that the pink line of icing lines
up the wide end of the paddle, which means when we pipe it's
going to be on the center of the flower and, sort of,
bursting out towards the edges.
If the line of icing lines up with a thin side
of your petal tip, the edges or the tips of your petals
are going to have a really pretty pink color effect.
So I'm going to show you how to do this
with the pink on the narrow edge of the tip,
and you can see how the outer edge of my petal
is really pretty pink.
To make flowers like this, I have more information
in our basic pedal video.
This creates such a pretty subtle pedal effect.
Get rid of that and put it on my cake circle.
Now I'm going to show you how to use the icing stripe down
towards the wide end of the bag, which is going to create
the color from the inside.
With a pink lined up with a white end of the tip,
you can see how pretty this is.
It's creating a nice color burst on the middle of the flower.
It's so pretty.
It looks so much like an Apple blossom
with, like, a little star in the middle of the flower.
Spatula striping creates a really cool effect
on your cupcakes and also really, really pretty effects
on your piped flowers.
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