Piping Designs for Special-Occasion Cakes

The templates and illustrations in Figures 13-49 to 13-66 suggest motifs such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, a child’s birthday, and so on. They can inspire you to create your own designs, or they can be used as patterns to press into marzipan, as described in “Designs Pressed into Marzipan to Be Traced Over and/or Filled In with Fondant”. Once made in this fashion, the stamps can be kept virtually forever to use as needed. You may also want to use the templates to create designs on marzipan by following the instructions for “Tracing onto Marzipan”. If necessary, enlarge the templates to the appropriate size for the cake you are decorating.