What Tips Should I Use to Pipe a Cupcake Bouquet?

Cupcake bouquets are an edible treat that may be used for a party centerpiece, gift or birthday cake. The small cakes are decorated with full-size frosting flower blossoms or a mass of tiny petals. The flowery cupcakes are assembled into a sweet bouquet when mounted on sticks or skewers arranged in floral foam or a wide-mouth vase. Use cake decorating tips to pipe and create the petals and flowers for the cupcake bouquet. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Petal Tips

Petal tips are used to create a full frosting flower on top of a cupcake. Tip numbers 59 to 127 create rounded ends and ruffled petals. Roses, ruffled chrysanthemum, marigold and pansy blossoms can be designed with petal tips. The specialty 127D tip makes a giant rose for a display made from large cupcakes. The 97 tip is ideal for Victorian style rose blossoms. Petals are piped individually or in a continuous motion.

Drop Flowers

Small tips numbered from 106 to 225 and medium 131 to 194 are used to pipe a mass of miniature blossoms onto a frosted cupcake. Pink, blue, lavender and yellow drop flowers can be combined in various sizes for a cupcake bouquet. Special drop flower tips are also manufactured for left-handed cake decorators. They are identified with the letter L and the tip number.

Open and Closed Star Tips

The open star shapes range from the tiny number 13 to the over-size 8B. Closed star shapes have deeper grooves with lines spreading from the center of the blossom outward. The star and miniature rounded petal blossoms are perfect to fill in the top and sides of a cupcake flower. The blossoms create an effect of a mass of forget-me-not or lilac-shaped flowers.

Leaf Tips

Leaf tips are made for plump, jagged or thin leaves. The thin leaf tips including the number 74 and 75 are the best shape for making long petals. Create daisies, asters and chrysanthemums with these tips. The rounded leaves that end in a point are formed using the number 112, 113 and 115 tip. This shape is used to form the red and green poinsettia leaves for a Christmas cupcake bouquet.

Round tips

The smallest round tips, such as the number 8, 10 and 230, can be used to pipe long, plump tips for a Gerber daisy. The petals are formed on a piece of parchment paper and assembled on the frosted cupcake after drying.