Name: How to Pipe a Buttercream Bow
Ingredients: Buttercream Icing Recipe; Disposable Decorating Bags; Decorating Tip 3

Ingredients

Instructions

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- Prepare buttercream following recipe instructions.
- Prepare decorating bag with tip 3. Fill half full or less with buttercream.
- Hold bag at a slight angle (45 degrees), with back of back pointing towards you and end of tip touching surface.
- Starting at center point of bow, squeeze bag, moving tip up and around to the left and back to the starting point, forming first loop.
- Continue around, making a second loop on the right. The two loops should form a figure-8 shape.
- To add a bow knot, pipe a dot in the center of the bow.
- While holding the bag in the same position, return to the center of the bow and squeeze bag to form streamer, moving tip away from bow, then release. Repeat for second streamer.
- For wavy streamers, move the decorating bag back and forth while piping the streamer.

To change the size of your bow, use a larger round tip, like tip 10.
To change the look of your piped bow, use a star decorating tip, like tip 18.
To create a flat ribbon bow, use a petal tip, like tip 104, and pipe bow with wide end of tip down and narrow end of tip up. After piping both loops, hold bag so tip opening is horizontal at the center of the bow. Squeeze and move bag downwards to form bow knot. Return to the same position as bow loop. Hold bag vertical, with wide end down and narrow end up; pipe streamers.