Hi there! I was just browsing a site I frequent with photos of cute party ideas [http://www.hostessblog.com/] and came across these cupcakes at the top. I'd like to recreate this frosting design and would love some help with regard to the piping tip and technique used. Thanks!
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Thanks very much! Is that number for Ateco or Wilton? I will try that 
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I almost forgot, I'm also trying to figure out how to frost cupcakes to look like in the photo below. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I believe it is a leaf tip that is used on the yellow ones
Thanks, NanaSandy and suspirito2010! I agree with kamstor that I'd like to know more detail to the process as well. Based on the photo alone, I believe you'd need to frost from outside inward and upward.
I never dne it myself but I watched video a while ago. they used the leaf tip and started from the outside, going up then down covering the whole cupcake like this
I don't think it's a leaf tip - there is no ridge in the center of the ruffle. I think it's something like # 150 but in a larger version?
To get the look start on the far side top of the cupcake and make a row of zigzag piping but instead of going from side to side, move your hand up & down; then it's more rows across the top of the cc until you cover the whole top - only 3 or 4 rows really. You are holding the opening of the tip straight up & down (verticle/like a slot) not side-to-side (horrizonal/flat).
The pink icing swirl could also be a tip 150 or any smallish rose tip but instead of turning the hand w/the bag you hold your hand still and turn/spin the cupcake. On this one I'd start in the middle of the cupcake and circle ever widening layers around.
There is/was a drop flower tip that can do similar but as I remember it's small; I've log ago forgotten the # 
It also looks like it could be a ruffle done with the 104 tip, but a little bigger.
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