How To Draw A Cupcake Swirl

I don't know if the universe has it out for me or what, but I swear to you all, the second I start making a witting effort to eat good for you, I'k suddenly inspired to make all sorts of naughty treats. And not just inspired, like, "Oh, I really, really, actually want to brand some caramel corn," but my brain of a sudden starts putting together evil ideas for things I've never even fabricated. I guess deprivation is great for inspiration, right?

I'one thousand posting my scandalous niggling treat on Friday, merely for today, I want to share a really cool tutorial. I kind of thought I was a genius until I told Sara what I was posting and she told me that she already has a tutorial all photographed. It'south kind of rough sharing a brain sometimes.

Not only is this super impressive (my 6-yr-sometime told me that he thought the manner my cupcakes were "designed" was awesome), but it'due south a fun and piece of cake way to implement dissimilar colors when you lot're decorating cupcakes. Similar for these Colorburst Cupcakes that Sara posted this last jump during March Madness.

For this tutorial, I'chiliad just using 2 colors of icing, but you could easily apply three (or even four if yous're feeling wild) dissimilar colors for a really cool rainbow outcome. You tin can besides play around with flavors, using dissimilar types of icing or adding different flavors to a something like our Perfect Cupcake Frosting and Filling. Chocolate and caramel, chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and orange, orange and lemon, vanilla and almond, vanilla and peppermint, peppermint and chocolate…you've pretty much got unlimited options.

You'll need icing, disposable decorating bags (one for each color and then 1 more to fit them all into), and a large decorating tip (like this, this, or this) and a big coupler.

The most basic affair to remember is that no matter how many dissimilar colors you're using, you don't desire the last bag to be too total. So if I'm using two colors, I'll fill up each colour pocketbook a petty less than 1/2 full with icing. If I were using iii, I'd fill them a little less than 1/3 full, and for 4, a little less than ane/4 full. Make sense?

Subsequently yous've filled your bags, flatten them out and stack them on top of each other…

and then trim 1/2 inch or so off the tip of each bag and slip them into the bag fitted with the decorating tip.

Firmly squeeze the bag until you're getting equal parts of each icing from the tip. I will say that it's a footling trickier if you're using two different types of icing (like I am hither) than if yous use different colors of the aforementioned icing (like Sara did). If you d o use two different types of icing, endeavour to make certain they're roughly the same consistency before icing your cupcakes, even if it ways popping a softer icing into the freezer for a few minutes.

To ice your cupcakes, concur the tip close to the elevation of the cupcake. Using house, steady pressure, squeeze the icing purse, starting in the center of the cupcake and moving around the edges of the cupcake and then ane more swirl on top, moving back towards the center. I actually had a video tutorial of this at one point, but Dropshots spontaneously deleted all my pictures and videos (yeah, Dropshots, I'm totally calling yous out, jerks!), so I'll attempt and get another one up today because it'southward non about as complicated as it sounds.