Decorating Cupcakes-1

Today is the first day of second week in Blogging Marathon and I will be posting under simple cake decorating ideas. For three days I will show you some simple decorations for cupcakes. We usually don't get decorated cupcakes here in Madurai. When I started browsing the net for cup cake recipes, I came across some interesting videos for decorating cupcakes. From then I have made it a must to decorate cupcakes. Sky is the limit when it comes to decorating cupcakes. With a single cake tip you can do a lot of designs.

We will start with the rose petal tip today. Apart from making roses, it is used to pipe out various floral designs. I will give two simple designs here.

This flower has three rows of petals. Small individual petals are piped out repeatedly to get a row. The inner row is slightly higher than the first row and the inner most is higher than the middle row. The height is achieved by tilting the tip vertically.

Cut the tip of a disposable piping bag and insert the rose petal tip. Fill it with butter cream. You can colour it according to your wish.

Keeping the pointier side above, pipe out small petals on the outer edge of the cupcake.

The first row looks like this.

Repeat two more rows. The number of petals decreases as you go to the centre.

This is also made with the same tip. But instead of piping out individual petals, you need to make a continuous pleating motion to get this type of design. Even this has three rows.

The recipe for Butter cream:

Ingredients:

Butter-1cup

Icing Sugar-4cups

Milk-4tbs

Vanilla Essence-1tsp