Cake Decorating 101: How to Make Star Flowers

Hi, I'm Toba Garrett

and I'm from the Institute of Culinary Education.

And today I would like to show you

how to use the star tip to make star flowers.

The 18 star tip that I'm going to use

is a very versatile tip.

I'm gonna position the tip at

a 90 degree angle towards the cake.

The tip is touching the cake

and I'm going to apply a burst of pressure

and allow about 1/4 of an inch of icing to come out

and then release the tip from the icing.

I'm doing these in clusters of threes.

Clusters of any odd number looks very pretty

when you're doing flowers on top of a cake.

And now we have completed our star flower

for the top of our cake.