Other Figures for Cake Decorations

Spikes
Use the similar tip as the shell shapes, but with a curved movement downwards or upwards. If you join one with the other you can make a very nice spike decoration.

Rosettes
Hold the decorating sleeve at 90 degrees; make turning movements while pressing on it until you get back to the starting point. Use a star shaped filter tip.

Star shapes
Place the glaze into the decorating sleeve and use a star shaped filter tip #71. Place the tip in a perpendicular form on the work surface; press, lift the decorating sleeve and cut. Try not to let it form any tips. If you do this shape repeatedly, one next to the other and under in an intercalated form and trying to fill all the holes you can make a nice effect with which you can cover many cakes.

Rope shapes
Use a star shaped filter tip (#71). Practice “s” shaped movements from down to up and left to right. Cut and lift the filter tip. The second “s” starts from under the first “s” shaped arch and so on. It’s precise for making basket borders.

Grass shapes
This effect is done with a special filter tip for making grass or hair. Hold it perpendicularly, only by pressing the decorating sleeve successively, trying to cover all the spaces. Cut it when you’ve gotten the appropriate grass size needed.

Wicker shapes
Put glaze on a decorating sleeve with a special filter tip which has a teethed side and the other straight side (#64, 74, or 84). Place the filter tip sideways over the lamina with the dented side on top. Press and lift the decorating sleeve and make a vertical line. Make horizontal lines on top of these (always in the air).

Crisscross the horizontal and vertical lines to make the wicker shapes.

Shuffles
Place a filter tip #401 for petals on the decorating sleeve (these have a thick border and the other a thin one). Place on top of the lamina, the thicker point touches it, press moving the decorating sleeve to the right making a zigzag movement.

Once you’ve had practice you can try doing it with shuffles following the previously marked waves on the lamina, lowering and lifting the decorating sleeve in the measure that the wave requires. You can superimpose two or more waves starting from down to up.

Wave shapes
To practice the different kinds of wave shapes it is convenient to use a round Styrofoam box with which you will simulate a cake. Use the royal glaze for thin lines and put it into a decorating sleeve or paper cone with a thin, small filter tip (#00 or 10).

Simple waves
Make equidistant marks (for example, every 3 cm) on the sides of the box.

Rest the tip of the paper cone or decorating sleeve on one of the marks; press hard while moving to the next mark, letting the glaze line hang, rest this on the next mark.

Without cutting or lifting repeat this movement to the next mark.

Try to make all the waves to be in the same height.

Double and triple wave shapes
Start by making the first row of simple waves but with a bigger fall. To make the second row, repeat the same movement starting in the same point but making the glaze a little higher than the previous one. The same process is done for the third row.

Crisscrossed waves
Make marks on the right lateral side of the cake in specific intervals. Place the tip of the filter tip on one of the marks and make a wave skipping one mark. Place the tip on the second mark and make a wave to the fourth mark (always skip one). Complete the whole cake this way. You can decorate the marks of each wave tip with a shell or flower shape.

Double crisscrossed waves
Mark the cake so as to make double waves. Make the first wave double. To make the second wave, start in the center of the first one.

To make the third wave, start off in the center of the previous wave always. Continue until you make the complete turn.

Multi crossed waves
Determine the stretches with 12 marks each (these can be continuous or with free spaces in the middle).

For this wave set, you must make repeated marks (for example, every 0,5 cm). Place the tip on the first mark and make a wave until the eighth mark and so on.

Small waves
Make the first row of small waves. Under it, make the second row of groups of two waves (leave one space free), starting and finishing in the center of the first rows of waves. The third row is of only one wave between the previous set of waves. The same work can be done with double waves.

Closed waves
These waves are interesting to intercalate between the double and triple waves. They are done in the same way as the simple waves but starting and finishing in the same place.

Glaze writings
To write the name of the person to whom homage is paid and any greeting message, we can do it with glaze in a paper cone with a very small cut tip or with a decorating sleeve with a filter tip #10. Generally you use a slip with the letters of the alphabet of different types of letters to work as a guide. You can move them to the cake placed on a buttered paper once the letters are dry.