Eight Ways to Decorate with Tip 340

Often used to pipe ruffles and zig-zags, ruffle decorating tip 340 is a great tip to use for piping borders, flowers, shells and more. The design of the tip helps create defined lines in your decorations, giving your cakes and cupcakes added texture. Use ruffle tip 340 and an assortment of icing colors to create these cute cupcake designs, great for parties, weddings, Sunday brunches and much more.

Skill LevelBeginner

AmountAbout 24 cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake cupcakes.
Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
Tint icing.
Combine Burgundy and touch of Royal Blue icing colors to get magenta color shown. Combine Royal Blue and touch of Burgundy icing colors to get lavender color shown. Using Ivory and Pink icing colors, tint 1 cup icing each ivory and light pink. Also tint 1 cup icing each magenta and lavender using color combinations provided.
Decorate cupcakes.
Prepare four decorating bags with tip 340. Fill separately with ivory, light pink, magenta and lavender icing.
Rope Cupcake: Using magenta icing, hold bag with tip opening horizontal to cupcake surface. Using buttercream rope technique, pipe rope around edge of cupcake. Using light pink icing, hold bag with tip opening vertical to surface; pipe buttercream rope in center of cupcake.
Stars Cupcake: Using any color icing, hold bag at 90°; pipe stars, alternating colors and tip position, until cupcake is covered.
Basketweave Cupcake: Using any color icing, hold bag with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Using basketweave technique, cover cupcake, alternating colors.
Shells and Stars Cupcake: Using magenta icing, hold bag with tip opening vertical to cupcake surface. Pipe shells, alternating direction, around edge of cupcake. Using light pink icing, hold bag with tip opening vertical to cupcake surface. Pipe four shells in center of cupcake, starting in center and moving towards edge. Using ivory and lavender icing, pipe stars between shells.
Rows of Stars Cupcake: Using light pink icing, hold bag at 90° with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Pipe row of stars down center of cupcake. Continue piping rows of stars, alternating colors, until cupcake is covered.
Zig-Zag and Shell Cupcake: Using light pink icing, hold bag with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Pipe zig-zag flower in center of cupcake. Using magenta icing, hold bag with tip opening horizontal to cupcake. Pipe shells in spaces between zig-zag “petals”, starting towards center and moving towards edge of cupcake. Using lavender icing, hold bag with tip vertical to cupcake. Pipe shells following edge of cupcake and in between magenta shells.
Crisscross Shells Cupcake: Using ivory icing, hold bag with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Pipe four shells in center of cupcake, starting at edge and moving towards center. Using light pink icing, hold bag with tip vertical to cupcake surface. Pipe four shells between ivory shells, starting towards center and moving towards edge. Using lavender icing, hold bag with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Pipe eight shells, evenly spaced around edge of cupcake, starting towards center and moving towards edge. Using magenta icing, hold bag with tip vertical to cupcake surface. Pipe shells, starting at edge and moving towards center, in between lavender shells.
Daisy Cupcake: Using lavender icing, hold bag with tip horizontal to cupcake surface. Using reverse shell technique, pipe reverse shells around entire cupcake, elongating tail of shell to center of cupcake. Using ivory icing, hold bag at 90°. Pipe rosette in center of cupcake.