(Sorry for the re-post, I think I posted this in the wrong place first.)
Hi, total novice here. I'm trying to figure out how to do the ruffle on a doll cake made from the wonder mold. It's for my daughter's birthday cake and I'm using buttercream. I saw a couple of samples on this website where people said they used tip 104. I went and bought it but can't quite figure out how to do it. Does it go with the narrow end up? Do you go back and forth, side to side and overlap to make the ruffle (gets kind of thick when I do that)? Or is there some way to just squeeze in a straight line and get it to look like a ruffle? I was squeezing, pulling to right, then backing up 1/2 way and squeezing again, pulling to right, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The fat part of your #104 tip would be the base of your ruffle and the skinny part would be the ruffle part.
It depends on who you are and how you were taught, as to how you make a ruffle. I don't know about other decorators, but this is how I learned to do it.
You place the fat part of the tip towards the cake and start squeezing making sure that the skinny part of the tip is a little bit away from the cake.
You keep an even pressure on the bag while you go round with a gentle wiggly movement. I'm sorry if this isn't the best way to describe how to do it.
I would just keep practicing til you get what you like.
If you can find a picture of it somewhere here or on the net, carefully study it to see if you can see how it was done.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
So the fat part is on the top and the thin part is on the bottom? I was doing it the wrong way for starters. I had the thin part at the top. The only cakes I have ever decorated are the character cakes with the star tip so I'm really in a whole new territory here. I just don't like how the standing doll cake looks with the stars so I'm trying to make a ruffly dress on her. Thanks for the advice, I'll keep trying.
Also, depending on where the ruffle is going, you might want to first pipe a row of shells so that the bottom of the ruffle will not just lie flat against the icing but come out a bit, more natural looking like a ruffle actually does.
Hugs Squirrelly
Hi Projectqueen,
For me, the ruffle was very hard to get down. Here is a link to Wilton's instructions on how to do it. Good luck! 
http://www.wilton.com/decorating/basic/ruffles.cfm
I have a doll cake w/ruffles in my photos if that will help you. Squirrely Hugs is right... a shell border under is good is it is a single ruffle especially at the bottom. I overlap the ruffles a LITTLE and the wide end does go next to the cake and the thin end out a little and wiggle, zigzag a bit or whatever explanation works. It is fun and goes quickly. Good Luck!
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