I recently had an order booked for basic cupcakes (swirl of icing and sprinkles or simple decorations) for a boy's 13th birthday. I have complete freedom to decorate however I wish. His favorite colors are green, blue, and red in that order. I'm thinking about doing a two-color 1M swirl in blue and green, but I've never done a bicolor swirl before. Do any of you have any suggestions for how to do a bicolor swirl? Are there any other ideas that might be good? I'd appreciate any help!
Alysa
Put blue icing in the left half of your piping bag, green icing in the right half. Just squeeze a little out until you have blue and green coming out (sort of) equally. Tilt the bag sideways as you fill it to make it a bit easier to control where the icing goes.
Another suggestion would be paint the inside of the bag with the 3 colors in a triangular form and then add icing. You would end up with all 3 colors.
You might even try doing what SpringFlour said and adding the 3rd color by stripping the bag with that 3rd color.
HTH
Michele
I would just use a brush to stripe your piping bag with the icing color, then fill with white icing to get a cool striped look when you pipe. I have a pic of pink/purple cupcakes I just did in my profile photos to give you a better idea if you haven't seen that before. (I did 4 thick stripes, two of each color). Good Luck!
Along the same lines of what Tree45 suggested, you can easily do swirls using the frosting plug/cartridge method, works like a charm for regular and multi color swirls. Here's a link to the sticky post, it includes pictures. Good luck! Andrea
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-588591.html
you could do something like the cuppies in my picts. just a thought.
Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions. I really like the idea of the icing plugs with multiple colors so I think I'm going to give that a try first. I'll be sure to post the pics of the final project!
Alysa
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