Cake Decorating Flowers

When cake decorating flowers you will use tip 2D, 2C, 129, 224 or 255 to make swirl or star flowers on this page. If you need to learn about pastry tips you can do that here. These flowers are quite easy to make and are finished off with a small dot in the middle usually with a different color frosting. We'll show you the method below.

We have several more flowers you can learn to make as well including
Cake Decorating Roses
Frosting Daisy

Now on to learning about star and swirl flowers.

Video - Cake Decorating Techniques 

Cake Decorating Supplies Needed

Example of a swirl flower on a cupcake

• Tip 2D, 2C, 129, 224 or 255
• Tip 3 (for the dot in the middle)
  
• Pastry Bag
  
• Coupler
  
• Icing
  

Drop Flowers Instructions

• Hold your pastry bag right above, 90 degrees, the spot you want your flower to go.


• Squeeze out a star using tip 2D or another suggested tip above.


• Stop squeezing and lift up.


• That's all to your star flower.


• Add a dot right in the middle with tip 3.

• You can make a slightly different flower called a swirl flower by twisting your wrist when you are making a star flower. This is the type of flower made in the video above and in the picture to the right.
  

These make great decorations made out of royal icing. They can be made ahead of time, harden and be added to the cake before serving.