How to choose Korea Piping Tips?

March 17, 2022

If you’re a cake decorator, it’s important to learn how to choose the right piping nozzle for your cake.

Here’s a handy visual guide to each type of piping tip.

1.Petal Piping Tip

Making roses, ruffled flowers, cake borders, and more.
Designing flower petals, curved decorations, and borders.
Large Size #181, #182, #183, #124K, #125K, #126K

Small Size #264, #101, #102, #103, #104
Large Size #124, #125, #126, #127, #128

Small Size #59°, #59, #60, #61, #161
Large Size #120, #121, #122, #123

Small Size #97
Large Size #116, #117, #118, #119

Small Size #44, #45, #150, #151

Small size #79, #80, #81, #143, #227

Small Size #401, Large Size #402, Jumbo #403

2.Plain Round Piping Tip

Outlining details, writing, adding dots, filling in flower centers, and completing complicated lattice and lace work.
Small Size #000, #00, #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12
Large Size #1A, #2A

Large Size #24mm, #22mm, #20mm, #18mm, #17mm, #16mm, #15mm, 14mm, #13mm, #12mm, #11mm, #10mm, #9mm, #8mm, #7mm, #6mm, #5mm, #4mm, #3mm, #2mm

Oval Piping Tips #55, #56, #57, #58

3.Leaf Piping Tip

Making plain, ruffled, or stand-up leaves
Small Size #349, #350, #352, #353, #65, #66, #67, #68, #69, #70
Large Size #363, #112, #113, #114, #115

4. Open Star Pastry Tip

Adding shells, stars, rosettes, and flowers to baked goods
Small Size #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #32

5. Closed Star Pastry Tip

Frosting cupcakes and designing stars, fleurs-de-lis, and flowers, as well as adding frosting on top of cupcakes
Small Size #23, #24, #25, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #31, #35

Large Size #852, #853, #854, #855, #856, #857, #867K, #869K

6. Basketweave Piping Tip

Adding shells, stars, rosettes, and flowers to baked goods
Small Size #46, #47, #48, #46°, #47°, #48°

7. Drop Flower Piping Tip

Making one-squeeze flowers (the number of cuts on the tip determines the number of petals on the flower)
#106, #107, #108, #109, #135, #171, #190, #194