Best Cake and Cupcake Piping Tips & How to Use Them

The best cake and cupcake piping tips for cake decorating and step-by-step on how to use them to create beautiful designs.

There are some buttercream piping tips that you’ll just use over and over again in cake decorating. Here I’ve put together a list of favorites and what I think are the best piping tips.

Now, first things first, you don’t have to have a ton of piping tips. You don’t need each and every one of these. You can choose what you think you’ll use the most.

There are also some piping tips that you’ll just keep going back to again and again and the good news is they’re generally inexpensive, so you can grow your collection as you’re able.

Many of these piping tips can be used in multiple ways. I’ll show how to pipe with each one and some examples of cakes I’ve used them on.

Don’t forget to check out the video close to the end of this post to see how to pipe with these tips.

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• 2D & 1M Tips:
• 8B & 6B Tips:
• 4B & 32 Tips:
• 103 & 104 Petal Tips:
• 21 Star Tip:
• 352 & 67 Leaf Tips:
• 233 Grass Tip:
• 4 & 5 Round Tips:
• Video on how to pipe with these tips:
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You’ll find Amazon links below each graphic where you can purchase these tips.

The 2D and 1M tips are very similar to each other and they’re great for making rosettes. Of course, you can make rosettes in a couple of different ways.

Make sure to check out the video in this post, but if you want to learn my favorite tip for piping rosettes, you’ll want to check out my post: Better Buttercream Rosettes.

These are also wonderful to use for easy rosette floral wreath cakes like the one below:

They’re also my favorite tips to use on cupcakes and they’re great as large shell borders.

I use these tips for cupcakes and to pipe dollops along the tops of cakes. I also like to use them for borders around the bottom of cakes.

These are also great for wreath cakes and unicorn cakes, the top of cakes, and also as large borders.

These star tips are a bit smaller than the previous ones, but they’re also great for borders and the tops of cakes. They’re also great for filling in floral wreath cakes.

Here are some ideas for cupcakes:

There are a bunch of different-sized petal tips, but these two sizes are my favorites. They make excellent medium-sized blossoms and roses.

There are different sizes of star tips, but this is the one I use most often. It’s a smaller size and perfect for all sorts of things.

Here are some examples:

These are great all-around leaf tips. The 352 tip is more of a standard leaf.

And the 67 can make a more ruffled leaf.

These tips are great for floral cakes, but they’re also great for filling in spaces.

Ok, obviously the grass tip is great for grass, but it’s also great for making fur.

Here are some examples:

These are your workhorses when decorating cakes. The sky is really the limit for these. I love them for filling in spaces on floral cakes…they’re great for piping berries to fill in those spaces.

They’re also great for making centers for flowers, writing words, and really any other piping you can think of.

Here are some examples:

Video on how to pipe with these tips:

Okay, now that you’ve got a ton of ideas…start that piping!

For even more piping tips, you’ll want to check out this post: 12 Simple and Easy Buttercream Cake Borders

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