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In this cake decorating tutorial I demonstrate 8 ways to use a 1M piping tip (a star tip) to frost and decorate buttercream cakes. For my 4 Minute Buttercream tutorial click here: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw
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Hi, I'm Emily of British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you eight ways to use my favorite piping tip, a 1M star tip
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I'll start with probably my favorite way to use a 1M tip by piping easy roses onto a cake
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For each rows, hold your tip against the side of the cake and pipe a tight spiral, working your way out, and then releasing your pressure on the piping bag as you pull the bag away from the cake
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Start at the bottom and pipe a row of roses around the cake and then another row on top
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and then another row. I like to pipe each rows in between the two below so that
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they're slightly offset. You need a thin coat of frosting on the cake first
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partly because it provides a flat non-crumbly surface for your roses to stick to
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but also because if there are any gaps between your roses it won't be as noticeable when there's frosting underneath instead of naked cake. This is a really
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quick and easy way to cover a cake with decorative frosting and the color possibilities are endless. You can use just one
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color or pipe the roses on by alternating colors, or you can make it ombre by
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using a light shade of the color for the first row and then get darker as you work
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your way up or down the cake. When you finish the sides you can leave the top
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as it is or you can pipe roses on top as well. Then if there are any gaps in
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between the roses you can squeeze a bit of frosting out of the piping bag, still using the 1M tip to pipe little star blossoms
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Another way to frost a cake using a 1M tip is to pipe frosting in rows around the cake
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You need piping bags for every colour of frosting unless you want to wash the bag in between each colour Build your cake and give it a crumb coat and then I like to start at the top of the cake and work my way down for this one to make sure the join between the top and the sides of the cake is neat
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Piper rows onto the top by starting in the middle and spiraling outwards
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until you've covered the entire top surface of the cake. Then around the sides, hold your tip against the cake
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and spin the cake, holding your hands still, which will ensure your frosting is piped in a straight line
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You can change colours as you go down the cake if you want, or use the same colour for the whole cake
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And you can either start piping in the same place for each row, and where the frosting starts and ends
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it will cause a little seam, which can then be the back of your cake. Or, you can start in a different place for each row, and by the time you've piped all of the
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rows of frosting, the seams in different places around the cake won't be noticeable anymore
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The 1M tip is a useful one to use for texture, like the fur or hair on an animal cake
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For this dog cake I've carved the cake and given it a crumb coat of frosting
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And I've piped the collar onto the neck before I do the fur
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With my 1M tip I'm squeezing just enough frosting out of the bag to make a little star of frosting
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and doing this all over the cake, changing colours to make some of the fur white and some brown
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On its own, a single squeeze of frosting through the 1M tip looks like a star, but when you cover a cake with it, it looks like shaggy fur or hair, which is perfect with dog cakes or any other animal with slightly shaggy fur
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This is also a fun way to create texture on any other cake not necessarily an animal cake A nice way to add some detail to the top of your cake is to pipe frosting around the top These are wiggles or ruffles of frosting using a 1M tip holding the tip
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just above the cake and as you lift the bag up slowly applying pressure the whole
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time, wiggle your wrist back and forth slightly to make the frosting fold over
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itself to make these pretty ruffles. You can place things in between the ruffles like
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macarons or cookies or truffles or candies. To space them out evenly it's easiest
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to place the macarons or other decorations first and you can attach them with just a
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tiny bit of frosting and then pipe the ruffles in between them afterwards. You
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can alternate colours if you like. Another way to pipe frosting on top of a
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cake is to pipe little swells the same as you would pipe onto a cupcake but smaller
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Hold your 1M tip in the centre of wherever you want the swell to be, and pipe a spiral
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lifting your bag slowly as you pipe, so that the spiral layers on top of itself
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I'm spacing the swells around the cake by imagining that the cake is a clock
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and piping the swells at opposites. So 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock, and then another swirl in the middle of each
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You can use a single colour, or alternate bags with six. different colors of frosting inside, or blend a few colors together inside the piping bag
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I go over this in a lot more detail in my online course on the basics of cake
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and you can click the link in the screen for more information, or I've put the link in the description below
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A final fun border for the top of your cake is a rope border which you can pipe with little overlapping circles of frosting I going around the outer edge of the cake and when I get to the end of each circle I immediately pulling the piping bag towards me to start the next circle
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which is overlapping half of the previous circle and continuing all the way around the cake, finishing with a complete circle and then adding some sprinkles on top
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For the base of the cake Scheme tip to pipe this wave-like border to cover up the join of the cake and the cakeboard
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Hold your piping bag vertically and squeeze the frosting out as you move your wrist away from you and then pull it back towards you to finish the wave
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Release your pressure on the bag for a moment and then as you pipe the next wave, moving the bag away from you, start squeezing the bag again to push out more frosting
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This is a nice way to add some detail at the bottom of the cake
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If you're going to put something on top of your cake, like macarons or sugar art, or chocolate shapes or other decorations
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a fun way to attach them is to pipe frosting onto the top with your 1M tip
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and then, while the frosting is still sticky, press the decorations into it
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You can do the wiggles or ruffles that we just covered, or swirls, and when the frosting sets after about 30 minutes at room temperature or 15 minutes in the fridge
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It will secure the decorations in place on top of your cake so you can move it around without worrying about the decorations falling over or falling off the cake
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I hope you've seen a fun new technique to try. Please tag British Girl Bakes in your photos on Facebook and Instagram if you try any of these so I can see what you make
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