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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Basic Smooth Swirl Buttercream Tutorial.
Today, I will be showing you how to swirl your cupcakes with one of these basic swirls.
This is one of the 3 main swirls that we use here at Cupcake Addiction. And it's a great
building block for all of your cupcake decorating needs. It's very versatile. You can add pretty
much any decoration you like to it. Let's get started.
Tools and equipments that I'm using today: I have my [trustee] Loyal piping bag. I use
the 3-40 Loyal bag. I just like the size of it.
I also have a Loyal number 20 piping nozzle. [You] may have seen those one in the Cookie
Monster Tutorial, one of my favorite nozzles. I've prefilled one of those piping bags with
some green frosting. I've chosen green today because I'm doing chocolate mint cupcakes.
And you can see as always, I've got my frosting all the way to the end of that nozzle so it's
coming out so we can be sure there's no air bubbles in it, nice and solid down here.
To get started on the swirl, one of the most important things to think about during...
when you're swirling your cupcake is the pressure that you apply to the piping bag and how you
hold. So I always twist the piping bag like [so] and I hold it with some of my forefinger.
We use that hand to grip and this hand to guide and apply extra pressure. You want to
keep your pressure firm. But you want to do it nice and slowly as well. You don't need
to go fast with this. One thing to remember about your swirls is
you never want to push down unto the cupcake as you're swirling. You always want to be
pulling the piping bag just a little bit up. And how far up you pull it would depend on
how high you want your swirl to be. So as you can see I'm starting in the middle
and I'm just going to squeeze gently. I'm going to work my way out around that cupcake,
keeping it nice and slow but still not in the frosting. And then I'm just going to bring
it up a little bit. Taper off at the middle and let it go.
I'm going to do that one again. Starting in the middle, swirling out, around and up in
the middle. And once more. If you start to find you're
getting a little bit low on the amount of frosting you've got in your bag, you can switch
to one hand and just apply that pressure with that one hand while guiding it. Swirling again,
out to the sides, lifting it a little for a little nice little finish there.
So there we have your basic buttercream swirl in a very vibrant green, ready for us to apply
any decorations we like to.