Sotas Technique

This lacy and impressive decorating technique is great for covering cakes, filling in areas or serving as a background to an array of buttercream flowers. Made using a small round tip, the sotas technique is simply a long line of overlapping loops. It can be piped on top of your cake, or can be piped around the edges for fun and decorative border.

Skill LevelBeginner

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Instructions

Instructions

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Make buttercream. Prepare buttercream frosting to thin consistency following recipe instructions. Prepare decorating bag with tip 1 and fill no more than 1/4 full with prepared buttercream.
Pipe design. Hold bag straight up at 90-degree angle, with tip 1/2 to 1 in. above surface. Squeeze bag, allowing icing to drop randomly in a series of overlapping loops. Cover area edge to edge. When done, stop pressure and pull tip away.