Different Nozzle Shapes

When piping icing onto cakes, we use nozzles, which have different shapes. The different shapes affect the shape of the icing, for example a closed star piping nozzle makes icing that looks like the points of a star that are closed in.

Here’s some pictures of different nozzles and icing shapes that I found on Google Images (technically plagiarism!)

At home, I only have a few different icing nozzles which either pipe out tiny star shapes or really large squiggly shapes that are quite unattractive… I’ll buy some more for cake decorating.