Kitchen Tip: Two Tone Frosting for Cupcakes
The two tone technique for decorating cupcakes is really a lot easier than you might think and it is so fun. Besides looking pretty, you can flavor the frosting differently to add so much flavor to the recipe. Think cream cheese and blueberry buttercream. Or Lemon and Vanilla buttercream. Raspberry Buttercream with Chocolate.
So I put together a quick kitchen tip to show you how. This time using a new recipe, which I’ll share later this week: Nutella Cupcakes with Nutella, Almond Butter, and Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.
Kitchen Tip: How to Pipe with Two or More Frosting Types
1. Lay your colors or flavors out in different container to keep them separate.
2. Using the tip for filling piping bags in the Cupcake Piping Tricks kitchen tip, fill the bags (I personally like disposable best) with your designated colors or flavors.
- You will not add a tip to any of these bags. Just the bag and the frosting.
- For bags I like CIA Masters Collection 12 Inch Disposable Pastry Bags or Wilton Disposable 12 Inch Decorating Bags, Pack Of 24. I buy them on Amazon but you can get the Wilton bags at craft stores like Michaels too.
- In this case, I had three frosting flavors: Nutella Cream Cheese, Almond Butter Cream Cheese, and Vanilla Cream Cheese. So after this step I end up with 3 bags each filled with a different flavor.
3. Twist the tops of the bags and cut about a half inch of the ends of each filled bag.
4. Then, you’ll take (in this case) a fourth bag. Snip the end of the bag and add your favorite piping tip to the bag.
5. Now, load all three frosting bags inside the fourth bag with the piping tip.
- Twist the top of the fourth bag so nothing escapes and pipe as usual.
- I usually do a couple of test pipes on a napkin or a cupcake I don’t care about until all three frostings are evenly coming out and any air has passed.
Any questions?
I can’t wait to share the new cupcake recipe with you! The combo of the nutella, almond butter (you could use peanut butter, but Logan is allergic) and cream cheese frosting was absolutely amazing!
Barbara Bakes says
A clever idea and the flavors sound amazing.
Julie says
I have been baking and decorating cupcakes, cakes, etc. for a long time…….this is a great tip !!! I think I’ve tried putting two colors in one frosting bag, and it was not pretty !! I will try this !
Lindsay @Eat, Knit, Grow says
That looks beautiful!
sweetsugarbelle says
I love this. Swirled frosting is intriguing 🙂 great tip
Cookbook Queen says
Love this tip and I can’t wait to see the cupcake recipe!!
Tracy says
Wow, this is so easy! I’ve seen tutorials before where people have put both colors of frosting in the same bag, and I knew I’d never be able to pull that off. I can’t wait to try this!!!
Katie says
I’ve seen that too, but what are you supposed to do if you have to reload one of the colors? This is SO easy with bags inside the main bag.
RhodeyGirl says
Brilliant.
brandi says
great tip! I’ve never seen how to do this, but it looks so much easier than I imagined.
Christina Reed says
Cool! Thanks for sharing this tip! I love learning new baking/decorating tips. BTW, the cupcake looks delish!
Kelli @ The Corner Kitchen says
What a great tip!! I can’t wait to try it out!
Lisa {Smart Food & Fit} says
Thanks for you tip, always wondered how they do that! I’ve been wanting to take a class on how to ice cakes and cup cakes, looks like your posts are doing just fine. Again thanks!
Annie says
Thanks so much for the awesome how-to! I never would have thought a multi-swirled frosting was something I could manage to put together in my own kitchen, without tons of extra tools. An excuse to make more cupcakes!
Carly D. @ CarlyBananas says
That is something I would have never thought of on my own but it sounds so easy! Thanks!
Courtney says
Wonderful tip! 🙂 those frostings sound delicious!! 🙂
Blog is the New Black says
So pretty- thanks for the tip! 🙂
Amber | Bluebonnets & Brownies says
This is a great tip, Katie. I would assume this works best with the larger tips, but it is VERY VERY cool. I really need to get some of the bigger tips.