Multi-toned piping

[VikingVagine]

Someone asked on another GBBO thread how to do the pretty swirly icing like Natasha's show stopper. Now I know someone one here has done it before beautifully but I can't remember who!

After a quick google, several techniques come up. Just wondered if anyone has already tried this, which techniques were used and was it a success?

Hi Viking, how you doing?, i've tried that, cupcakes on my pics, two ways to do it, either colour the inside of the piping bag, paint a line all the way up on one side, then the other side( obviously different colour and use paste colours, not gel as i found out) or you colour your buttercream, leave half white, and put the two side by side in the bag, remember to pipe abit out first, very effective.

Thanks! It was your cupcakes that I remembered! I'm still waiting for the temperature to go down before attempting anything with buttercream (or cupcakes for that matter, they just dry out too quickly)! It's still 29° in our house, but the forcast has said it's going to go down a bit next week (last week of the holidays) so maybe I'll get a chance to have a go then.

Phew, hot there then? i wouldnt complain, its tipping down in good old Wales, and flipping cold! thank you for the compliment though Viking.

It's been up to 41° in the shade in our garden (don't even want to think about how hot that is it the sun) over the past couple of months, too hot for too long if you ask me, but then I did chose to live here so I shan't complain too much (although I'm not sure a summer like you lot have been having would be any better)!