Drop flowers practice sheet
Quick piped flowers with a closed star tip. One squeeze and a quarter twist makes a flower.
Closed star tip 2D
Tip 2D: what it pipes, with free practice sheets
Tip 2D is a closed star tip for deep drop flowers and tall swirls. One of our free sheets uses it.
Nozzle tips Updated
Quick answer
Use tip 2D for deep drop flowers and tall swirls. Our free sheets use it for 3 strokes on the drop flowers sheet: drop flowers (18 mm), with the bag held straight up.
About tip 2D
Tip 2D is a closed star tip for deep drop flowers and tall swirls. On our drop flower sheet it makes a whole flower in one move: hold the bag straight up, squeeze while you give a quarter twist, stop, then lift.
Twist the same way and the same amount each time so the petals line up from one flower to the next. The sheet has two rows of flowers and a ring with one more in the centre; matching sizes come from matching squeeze lengths.
What tip 2D pipes
- Deep drop flowers
- Tall swirls
How to pipe with it
The rhythm and bag angle our sheets use for each shape, in the order you squeeze.
Drop flowers: squeeze, twist, stop, lift
Hold the bag straight up, squeeze while you give a quarter twist, stop, then lift. Hold the bag at 90 degrees, straight up.
How big our sheets size it
Each template on our sheets is drawn as wide as the icing should be. For tip 2D, that is about:
| Technique | Bead or unit size on our sheets |
|---|---|
| drop flowers | about 18 mm |
Your bead can come out a little bigger or smaller depending on your icing and how hard you squeeze. The score checks that it stays even and on the template.
Every stroke tip 2D pipes on our sheets
Drop flowers
- Stroke 1: 5 drop flowers, each about 18 mm across. Hold the bag straight up, squeeze while you give a quarter twist, stop, then lift.
- Stroke 2: 5 drop flowers, each about 18 mm across. Twist the same way each time so the petals line up.
- Stroke 3: 8 drop flowers, each about 18 mm across. A flower ring: start at the top, work round clockwise, then finish with one in the middle.
Mistakes to watch with tip 2D
- Different sizes: Count the same rhythm for every one (squeeze, ease, pull) so each gets the same amount of icing.
- Peaks on dots: Stop squeezing before you lift, then flick the tip sideways to break the icing off cleanly.
- Drifting off the line: Hold the bag at 45 degrees and aim the tip right on the grey line, not beside it.
Tip 2D in the 30-day challenge
You need tip 2D on 2 of the 30 days in the 30-day piping challenge:
- Day 5 · New sheet · drop flowersSqueeze while you give a quarter twist, stop, then lift. Twist the same way every time.
- Day 20 · Repeat · drop flowersRepeat of day 5. Same twist direction, same squeeze length.
