There are many different brands of pastry tips out there, and many different varieties of the same style that can be found. For example, there are 29 different drop flower tips, tons of different styles of stars including open, closed and deep cut closed, French star and specialty cross-top with a four point opening, 9 different multi-hole tips, an array of different basket weave tips including those with plain and double fluted tops, and many other specialty and hard-to-find designed tips. There are 13 different Ateco flower nails in all different sizes and shapes for your specialty flowers and projects.

Standard sized pastry tips are those that are the smaller type, and that fit with the small couplers. Professional sized tips are those that are made to fit inside a pastry bag with no coupler, although there are couplers that fit those, too, if you need to constantly change the tip for the same project using the same buttercream or filling. These are used by both the pastry and savory kitchen applications, like piping pastry creams, choux paste, cookie doughs, mousses, mashed potatoes, and whatever task is needed. Very durable.

Couplers are available for nearly all the tips, with exceptions to a few very large tips. If you are looking for plastic tips, there are many to choose from in various categories. They are used the same ways as the metal ones, except you may microwave as needed.

Groupings below are the tips in their respective categories. Simply click on the pictures for the page for more information and to order. Included in the groups are suggestions and ideas of what you can do with the tips. See what you can do with yours!

All pictures copyright Renee Shelton. Please inquire before copying and using.

Round tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for writing, piping borders, filigree work, cornelli lace, lace work, outlines and fills, lines, balls, strings and stems, lattice work, micro piping, etc.

Tips: 1-12, 000, 00, 261, 800-809

Open star tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for rosettes, borders, outlines, lines, lace work, lattice work, fleur-de-lis, fill-in, etc.

Tips: 13-22, 262, 820-829

French/fine star tips and open shell border tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for rosettes, borders, outlines, lines, drop flowers, fill-in, piping, shell borders, etc.

Tips: 32, 199, 362, 363, 364, 172, 860-869

Closed and deep closed star tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for borders, rosettes, drop flowers, piping, swirl flowers, shell borders, etc.

Tips: 23-31, 33-35, 232, 233, 501, 502, 504, 132, 195, 506, 508, 852-858, 840-849

Multi-hole tips, including double, triple, triple star, and multi for grasses:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for borders, drop flowers, grass, garlands, hair for piped figurines, outlines, etc.

Tips: 41-43, 89, 221, 133, 134, 234, 2010

Basketweave and flat tips, double basket weave tips, cake icers and large cake icers:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for basket weave, lattice weave, borders, straight lines and borders, quick icing of cakes, side borders and decoration, etc:

Tips: 44-45, 46, 46a, 47, 47a, 48, 48a, 895, 897, 898, 789, 790

Leaf tips, French-style leaf tips, tips with a v-style leaf for quick leaves:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for all leaves, borders, garlands, etc.

Tips: 65-70, 71-76, 94-95, 349, 350, 352, 263, 112-115

Rose and flower tips, tips of this style including sharp and rounded ends:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for roses, flowers, borders, garlands, swags, bows, outlines, writing, quick icing of cakes, side borders, etc:

Tips: 101-104, 264, 124-128, 180

Drop-Flower tips. Most of these tips have thin round piece attached to the inside of the tip and placed in the middle of the tip thereby creating a drop flower without a center. Useful if you want to put different colors for centers or different designs. For dropped flowers, just about any tip can be used with the aid of your imagination.

Some suggestions and ideas:
Drop flowers, filler flowers for cakes, specialty flowers.

Tips: 105-107, 129, 131, 136-140, 146, 177, 191, 193, 217, 220, 223-225, 108, 109, 135, 171, 190, 194

Petal, curved petal and left-handed petal:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for borders, roses, flowers, piping decorations, garlands, swags, etc.

Tips: 59, 59a, 60, 61, 97, 155, 159-162, 116-119, 120-123

Border or petal tips with jagged and fluted edges or ends including left handed tips, Specialty border tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for borders, flowers, garlands, ruffles, etc.

Tips: 62-64, 86-88, 168, 158, 143, 155

Oval-topped tips, triangular and squared top shaped tips:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for piping, borders, writing, lines, outlines, dropped-work, dropped flowers, etc.

Tips: 55-58, 82-84, 85

Frilly border tips. These tips are specially made for making frilly and skirted borders. Indispensable for creating borders.

Some suggestions and ideas:
Frilly and decorative borders.

Tips: 030, 040, 050, 060, 070, 090

Cross-top tips. These tips have a closed-star shape with 4 points to them.

Some suggestions and ideas:
Filler piping, four point stars, cross stiching, simple drop flowers.

Tips: 49-54, 77-78

Border and garland tips. These tips have the shape of a 'c' or double 'c' are used for many things including petals of flowers, borders, garlands and other piped work. The deep cut tips can make frilly decorative borders easily (401 and 403). Useful.

Some suggestions and ideas:
Borders, garlands and swags, decorative piping, flower petals.

Tips: 79-81, 143, 401, 403

Swirl top. These tips are similar to a star-shaped tip except the tines of the stars are slanted rather than straight, giving a dropped piped item a swirl to it without twisting the bag. Other swirl tops with a center metal rod can be found under dropped flowers, above. These all have open middles:

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use for dropped swirl flowers, piping, borders, piped cookies, etc.

Tips: 96, 885, 887, 888

Shell tips. These tips are unique in that they are made especially for creating shell borders. They have a moon-shaped curve to them, with the upper side having a fluted edge. When piped as borders, it makes a flat shell quickly and easily.

Some suggestions and ideas:
Use these when wanting a flat shell border. Decorative borders and swirls.

Tips: 98, 899

Micro sized tips: For fine piping. Round, star, rose, leaf.

Tips: 000, 00, 261, 262, 263, 264

Specialty tips:

St. Honore: 880

Bismarck: 230. Uses: to pipe filling easily inside eclairs, etc. Has a long piping end with a slanted tip.

Christmas Tree: 250

Heart: 252

Drop Flower/Special Star: 105

Left Handed Tips. These tips can be used for different sized/shaped borders for right handers, and for left handers they are used to do borders and roses, flowers.

Tips: 159, 160, 161, 162, 168

This page was updated on August 13, 2007. All pictures copyright Renee Shelton. All suggestions come from the different uses I've used the various tips for in cake decorating. You may find many other uses for them in your decorating.