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How to Pipe Canned Frosting

Published: Feb 20, 2018 · Modified: Jul 7, 2020 by Katie · This post may contain affiliate links

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Learn how to pipe canned frosting with my easy hack. Your friends and family will never know the difference and your cake will still look gorgeous!

How to Pipe Canned Frosting

Well, I took an unintentional few week’s off from blogging. Life has been extra crazy and I would like to partly blame life for that. But that’s the beauty of owning your own business and being your own boss. During my few weeks off I was party planning and prepping for my daughters 1st Birthday party. I haven’t been too open about it, but I’m sure you’ve noticed if your a long time reader that I’ve started sharing quite a few dairy free recipes. That would be because last year I found out my newborn daughter had a dairy allergy. Thus–forcing me to go dairy free since I was breastfeeding. So what does that have to do with piping canned frosting? *MOST* canned frosting’s contain NO DAIRY! So while I was party planning and trying to figure out what the heck I was gonna do about her first birthday cake. That’s when I put two and two together that I could probably stiffen up some canned frosting from the grocery store so that I could still pipe it and make the birthday cake of my her dreams. I always envisioned her first birthday cake being stocked full of rosettes so that’s what I wanted to do. Needless to say, it worked!

How to Pipe Canned Frosting

Now–hold on right now. I know I’m about to get inundated with HATE mail because I fed my one year old canned frosting. I recognize their is so much “stuff” in canned frosting. Not all good for you. However; sometimes you have to live a little and try and forget about what is in it. Yes–this comes from me a relatively health conscious individual. Yes, I realize I could have made vegan buttercream. However, I did not have time to test nor did I have the energy. Some times you just need an easy short cut and that’s why I’m sharing my “hack” for how to pipe on canned frosting. You just need two ingredients, a piping bag and piping tip and you are in business!

How to Pipe Canned Frosting

The best part is that none of my guest knew that it was canned frosting on the beautiful decorated rosette cake! It will be our little secret. I will admit that the already sweet canned frosting becomes even sweeter with my method of adding more sugar to the frosting. I’m not sure if their is a way to get around this. Nor have I tested any other methods. I hope that if your wanting to achieve a beautifully decorated cake but don’t have the time that my method for piping canned frosting comes in handy!

How to Pipe Canned Frosting

How to Pipe Canned Frosting

Learn how to pipe canned frosting with my easy hack. Your friends and family will never know the difference and your cake will still look gorgeous!
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 32 oz.
Calories: 74kcal
Author: Katie

Equipment

  • 2D Piping Tip or any piping tip of your desire
  • Piping bag

Ingredients

  • 2 16 oz. canned frosting any flavor
  • ½ cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Empty both cans of frosting in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Pour in ½ cup of powdered sugar. Mix on low speed until powdered sugar is incorporated then whip on medium speed for 30 seconds.
  • Turn the mixer off, lift the paddle attachment and see if the frosting is stiff and thick. If it still seems a little on the soft side add in the additional ¼ cup of powdered sugar. Repeat step one with mixing until stiff.
  • Using a piping bag place the 2D piping tip in the bag (for rosettes). Fill your piping bag ¾ of the way and begin piping on rosettes. Once frosting is almost done, repeat by filling bag and piping on more. Do this until your cake is full of rosettes.

Notes

Some times you just need an easy short cut and that’s why I’m sharing my “hack” for how to pipe on canned frosting. You just need two ingredients, a piping bag and piping tip and you are in business!

Nutrition

Calories: 74kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 29mg | Potassium: 5mg | Sugar: 12g | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg
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  1. Patricia Kelly

    April 12, 2024 at 7:24 pm

    5 stars
    Used White icing, added a little clear Vanilla and some 2% milk. Perfect for my mini cupcakes.

    Reply
    • Katie

      April 29, 2024 at 1:21 pm

      Perfect! Glad it worked well for you.

    • Emily F.

      August 20, 2024 at 8:37 am

      The milk was used in store bought frosting? It didn’t make it too thin? I’m confused.

    • Katie

      August 26, 2024 at 5:20 pm

      Hi Emily, I’m not sure where your questioning the milk. Most store bought canned frosting (Betty Crocker, Dunken Hines, etc) does not contain dairy of course you need to read the label to ensure this as some flavors do. You mix the canned frosting with powdered sugar to make it pipeable.

  2. Rachel

    March 27, 2022 at 1:46 pm

    Does the 1/2 cup of confectioner’s sugar make the frosting thick enough to pipe rose petals on a flower nail to make a rose? I have had the most trouble with getting homemade frosting thick enough to pipe rose petals. It occurred to me yesterday that canned frosting might work. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Katie

      March 29, 2022 at 1:34 pm

      Hi Rachel, I know exactly what you are talking about; however, I have not tried that method using the canned frosting. I plan to completely update this very old post at some point and I will add that to my testing! If you try it let me know if it works!

  3. Janina

    July 04, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    Thank you for the great ideas making cupcakes with my granddaughter so we want to pipe this is an amazing idea!

    Reply
    • Katie

      July 05, 2021 at 8:39 pm

      Janina, I’m so happy to read this. Have fun making cupcakes with your granddaughter!

  4. Lizzy

    June 29, 2021 at 9:15 pm

    5 stars
    I have used half confectioners sugar and half cornstarch.. it’s not as sweet, fluffs up nicely. I just saw a list of things you can add instead of sugar, to stiffen frosting ..
    pasting below..>>>>>>>>>
    If you are trying to avoid adding more sugar to an already sweet dessert, try adding a flavor-appropriate thickening agent to your frosting. These thickening agents include: cornstarch, gelatin, cream cheese, cocoa powder, cold heavy cream, tapioca, arrowroot starch, flour and even butter.

    Reply
    • Katie

      June 30, 2021 at 3:58 pm

      Hi Lizzy, Thank you so much for sharing all these other ways to thicken the frosting. I can’t wait to give some of these other options a try!

    • Amy Groleau

      September 30, 2024 at 11:53 am

      Do you use the same amount of the icing sugar substitutes?

    • Katie

      November 20, 2024 at 5:32 pm

      Hi Amy, I’m unsure what question you are trying to ask.

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