How To Use Russian Piping Tips Flowers

Making two toned flowers with Russian piping tips.

How to use russian piping tips flowers. Place the Russian tip you want to use in a piping bag snip off the end and then place the log into the piping bag. One thing about these Russian piping tips is that they are HUGE. Recently I saw they come in a set of 21 tips and set of 18 tips.

Pipe flowers close together. Russian piping tips are different in that they have a finely designed cut-out instead of a hole star or leaf shape that its commonly seen in regular piping tips. The Russian piping tips are a great way to pipe flowers and decorative designs very easily although I have found a lot of practice and patience is required.

Unlike Fondant Flowers or Royal Icing Flowers Sugar Flowers. Drop flower tips look a lot like star tips. If you want to make two-toned flowers youll have to layer the colors inside your piping bag.

Their clever design makes piping even a whole bouquet total childs play. These popular Russian tips are perfect because they allow decorators of all skill levels to easily create an entire buttercream flower in one motion - genius. Prop your bag up in a glass and use a small spatula to paint one color down the sides of the bag leaving the center clear.

Once you are happy with your color palette place the Russian piping tips into large piping bags and cut off the end. Next carefully fill the center of the bag with a different color. Pipe a flower a couple of times just to make sure you get the two colours coming out at once.

In fact I highly recommend buying the coupler so you can change the piping tips to create different designs. The purpose of this is that by piping with such an intricate design you will be able to pipe an entire flower at once as opposed to piping each petal by hand saving you both time and energy while still producing something fancy. Thank you Mia Stello for sponsoring todays post so I could share this tutorial.