Really Daft Question.....how Can I Do Fur!
Decorating By button-moon Updated 27 Oct 2006 , 8:49pm by mistygaildunn
im currently making an oscar the grouch cake, and need to pipe on ragged fur...i have various tips (piping nozzles) given to me and dont know if any of them do fur...what does the nozzle look like on the end, and is there any other way i could do the fur?
Thank-you 
Take a look at this page...
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30DD64-475A-BAC0-5FBA791BBD7A052B&fid=3E3324C3-475A-BAC0-5DF027EB4874EBF7
you need the tip in the middle #234, with the multiple holes to do fur. It's commonly used for grass, and since he pretty much looks like that it would work. If you didn't have that. You could use a single hole tip, but that's going to take you forever, and be quite the wrist-ache. I would do startip if you have no other option, it wouldn't look bad.
You can use the grass tip Wilton 233. Or one of the smaller/medium star tips to pull out "fur".
thanks for all the replies....unfortunatly i dont have that tip!!! and im from england and maybe they arent the same number tips.....is there any other way? i thought of putting fondant in my garlic crucher and it comes out like spaghetti!! but that might take my forever to stick on!! could i use anything else?
why not do a basic 18 or 21 star tip....I've done that before, just pull up and the icing sticks up. do it all over and it looks like fur on oscar...I've done that for a cookie monster and it looked really good.
I'm from England and you can get those grass fittings for an icing gun - I use a clay gun and have several different sizes of 'grass' thing. I got rhew clay gun for about £7 off ebay and it comes with tonnes of different plates to fit in to the end - is it too late for you to get one or if the cake due asap?
holly.........hi yes im 19!! they may look ok from the front but they are dead messy around the back!! i cant cover a cake without it ripping. i love doing cakes..just wish i was good at them! (thanx for your comment though )
emmascakes.....it has to be done for saturday so unfortunatly ebay is out of the question...although it may come in handy in the future!!
melodys cakes.......i may try that...i dont have alot of cake equipment just stuff my nan left me....i have tons of tips and only one icing bag and not all the tips fit the bag so im pretty stuck
If you don't have the grass tip, I think using a mixture of star tips...14, 16, 18, etc. would work. The different tips would make different size pieces of fur. It should look real cute. BTW: I think you do great work. 
hello its me again thought id show you my pic of the finished cake, thanks for all your help...i ended up using the star tip, and i didnt do to bad to say ive only used it twice!! i never usually pipe! anyway here it is.............
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_78674.html
I don't care if your cakes are upside down in the back, those are awesome. Your doing great, and he turned out wonderful. Thanks for posting.
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