Problems With Doing Rose Icing
Decorating By Cherrypoison Updated 25 May 2015 , 7:01pm by mccantsbakes
Hi everyone!
Just wondering if anyone could help me with an icing question :-) I've been using a Wilton 2D tip to ice my cupcakes following this method
http://www.thetomkatstudio.com/howtofrostcupcakes/
to get that lovely rose shaped swirl for a while, but recently it has started to do something weird to the icing. It seems to be splitting into separate streams and doing what I can only describe as 'ribboning', instead of sticking together as one stream. Any idea what might be happening?
I'm following this post...the same thing has happened to me in the past so I've started using a different tip all together to ice my cupcakes. I was thinking that maybe my 2D tip was somehow warped out of shape at the top, maybe, from a lot of use and washings and perhaps that was the reason. Instead of buying a new one to test this theory, I just started using a different tip. lol
Quote by @Cherrypoison on 1 hour ago
Hi everyone!
Just wondering if anyone could help me with an icing question :-) I've been using a Wilton 2D tip to ice my cupcakes following this method
http://www.thetomkatstudio.com/howtofrostcupcakes/
to get that lovely rose shaped swirl for a while, but recently it has started to do something weird to the icing. It seems to be splitting into separate streams and doing what I can only describe as 'ribboning', instead of sticking together as one stream. Any idea what might be happening?
@Sannalee, that was my original thought but it's done this more than once now with different batches of icing (and obviously having been cleaned in between). @babygotcakes, I'm thinking the same, took a picture of one in the shop to compare today so we'll see
@kakelady, it looks smooth to my eye but I probably have been getting a bit lazy with it recently :-)
I have had that same issue too. My tip ended up being ever so slightly warped. Those little prongs don't take a lot of force to shift slightly.
what I do to fix them is stick a knife in the tip from the bottom and gently push out the prongs and then I use my counter top to gently tap the closed star shape back into place. Or if it's an open star, i gently make sure the prongs are all evenly spaced with no curvature (I also Google a picture of the tip as a guide to see what it should look like)
if a round tip gets messed up, I stick a smaller sized round tip on the underside and the force of it pushing through shapes the messed up one to the circle shape of the one inside
this is probably not the official way to repair tips, but it works for me
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