Russian piping tips are a life-saver for those of us too impatient to learn how to make buttercream roses with regular old piping tips. If you’ve ever tried making a perfect icing flower using those shapeless nozzles, you know you’re in for a classic Pinterest fail. But with these simple tools, you can now up the ante on your decorating game without putting in too much effort.
social media and baking blogs because they let beginners pass as the Cake Boss.
These stainless-steel tips act as little molds that pipe out perfect buttercream roses, tulips and a bouquet’s worth of other flowers. There are also smaller tips that let you add leaves to your flowers, because no sugar garden is complete without a healthy dose of foliage.
There are plenty of Russian piping tip sets available on Amazon, I used these ones, which are now on sale for $15! Even the big guns are on this trend — Wilton sells an Easy Bloom Cake Decorating Tip Set for only $8.
As someone who loves the naked cake look (because I usually mess up anything I attempt to ice), I can vouch for how easy it is to use these tips.
Within a few short minutes, you'll surely graduate from Netflix's Nailed It! to Cake Boss.
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