Does anyone know how to pipe tulips...what tip, etc.? Also, is there a small leaf tip? Thank you!

I don't know about tulips but was wondering the same. The smallest leaf tip I 've got is 65. I'm not sure if there is even smaller one.

Just checked on the web, it seems the smallest leaf tip out there is 65s.

Ohh boy, this was all I could find on piping tulips. HTH some, Jen

http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/easter/eggssunnysideup.cfm

http://www.sweettechnology.com/cakes/cake257.htm

I would trace them on the cake, outline with a #2 tip and either fill in with buttercream and smooth with an artists paintbrush dipped in hot water. Or outline them with royal and flood them with thinned royal directly on the cake or on parchment paper, let dry completely and then set them on the cake, you can pipe a little round of buttercream to prop them up at angles.

You could make them from gumpaste

If you want to pipe tulips it's actually very easy: Use any shell tip and pipe an upside down shell (pointy part up), with a curved shell on each side (fat sides down on each petal.) There's a picture of this in the Wilton Way of Cake Decorating Encyclopedia #3 ("the uses of tubes") on page 210. They also pipe daylilies, geraniums, bearded iris and other flowers using this same method. Hope that helps some!

I'm very interested in piping tulips - I saw some at a bakery in CT that were amazing! I'll see if I can find the link.

ETA: Here's the link:

http://www.jacquespastries.com/alloccasion59tm.htm

It's from Jacques Pastries, but it's in NH, not CT.

Also, if you can't find a leaf tip as small as you want, you can cut a small v in your parchment bag to make your own.

Christy

There's another cake book which is also out of print called "the Cupcake Cafe Cookbook" and it's by Ann Warren of the cupcake cafe in NYC. Check out her website, she does some AMAZING work!! Anyway, she has another way of piping tulips outlined in her book, but it's quite lengthy actually so I'm not going to post it here (unless the masses demand it...) Hope that helps some!

Well, I just sent an email to Jacques Pastries to ask if they'd be willing to share their technique for the tulips. I'm SO hoping they will! If they do, I'll be sure to post it here! To be continued ....

I emailed Jacques Pastries once just to tell them how much I loved so many of their cakes and someone wrote back within 24 hours. They are very kind, so hopefully they'll write back!

Christy

You are all so fabulous. Great ideas! I'm going to try wonderbuns technique.... If I can't do that...I will try Shirley's suggestion. Would love to know about the Jacques cake too! Thanks for info re leaf tip too. I guess you could make a tulip using leaf tip too.... layering them sort of....
Thank you all for your replies...

I am really hoping you hear from Jaques pasteries soon on the tulips they are beautiful I have a wedding comming up and the bride wants tulips.

I don't know if you would want to do them like I did. They are on my Easter cake in the gallery. I put a good size dab of RI on the rose nail and then used the poinsettia leaf tip to pipe the petals. I striped the bag....

Wow

I just browsed Jacques' website, and I must say...wow...

I love, LOVE their wedding cakes!

Beautiful!

Guys ... I'm so sorry! I did hear back from Jacques, but I forgot to post here!! The response was a little brief, but here it is: "We use a curved rose tip to make the tulips and over lap the petals. Hope this helps."

I know what tip this is. I don't know the number, but I know that I have it.

So anyway, I hope this helps, and I'm sorry again for not responding sooner!!!

I bet you could do a similar tulip with the 352 leaf tip. You could just pat it down on the bottom if the center stem ridge was too tall. Now I'm going to have to try it!! That 'Jacques' cake is gorgeous!

Melvira, that's what I did.... Put a dab of icing on my nail head so the tulips wouldn't be flat then used the large leaf/poinsettia tip ... I used it on my Easter pic and got lots of compliments.

Jopalis, that Easter basket cake is too cute and I think the tulips look great! Glad that worked for ya, I may have to try that now...especially since the snow is 'finally' starting to melt here in Western NY!!!

You know, for some reason Jacque took those pix off his site. Anyone know why?

It's too bad that this cake was removed I wonder why.
I was very interested in piping tulips, and this is my the result using a tip 101; I have since done another cake using a tip 104, and as you'd expect the tulips are larger...I was pretty pleased with the look.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1276010.html

Wow I can't believe I found a copy of Jacques tulip cake. Here it is:

Oh man, that's stinkin' gorgeous!!