How big would you consider "very large"? I have a set; without going into the kitchen to look at them I'd say they'd probably slip over my finger tip only down to the first knuckle if that- and I have smallish hands.

Colleenoz, the tips I bought are about the size of a shot glass. I consider that "very large".

Sophia, thanks for the link, but what's shown there looks to me like a set of regular decorating tips. Russian tips have a more complex pattern that's cut on flat ends. Hard to describe. lol!

The whole idea for being large is that you press once through a piping bag to get full coverage on a cupcake.

I've seen some smaller ones. They're less complex and more like different shapes of regular leaf tips. There are also the small pointy ones that are meant for delicate Russian ruffles. The "shot glass" ones are the normal flower tips, which do auto-rosettes, etc., and the really big ball tips are the full coverage on a cupcake with one squeeze ones. Those are also meant for stacked ruffles, however, even though you can use them just for a blob of frosting.

What I haven't seen is a smaller version of the flower tips. I imagine any much smaller and you'd lose the definition and just get blobs.

Thanks, everyone. I'm certain that I've seen small (i.e., normal) size Russian tips in the past. Everyone seems to be selling the same large sets now -- probably all from the same manufacturer. She loved playing with the large set. I imagine she went through 3 batches of frosting on her first try. :)

Sometime ago, I happened to walk into a bakers/cake makers supply store somewhere near West 20s St area NYC. Amazing store! It's like a museum for tools and supplies for cake makers, cake decorations, I would be surprised if they didn't have what you need.

I don't remember the name of the store, exactly where they are located and I can find their business card.

dcarch

dcarch, that's my kind of place! Up here, I'm likely to find that stuff in an old hardware store. Next to the hula-hoops. :)

They even had interracial figures for the top of wedding cakes.

dcarch

These might be smaller. More like a thimble? I would call and ask the size.

It is NYCake. They closed the original but re-opened not far away just before the holidays. (used to be Cake and Bake?) 22nd st.

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I have some that are small enough to put 8 or 10 "flowers" on top of a cupcake, I got them from Amazon as a set. Of course I wanted the fern leaf one and had to buy that one individually and it was more expensive, the set had only flower tips. I checked my account and the set I bought is unavailable, but there are similar sets. I paid about $15 for a dozen tips and some piping bags. Like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Frosting-Decorating-Supplies-Russian/dp/B01DIEOD6Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=russian+decorating+tips&qid=1551201876&s=gateway&sr=8-5

I did find that the frosting had to be just the right consistency to use them, and there is a learning curve, it takes some practice.

Annie

Aren't those all the standard sized tips?

plllog, I have small ones meant for decorating and larger ones meant for icing cupcakes or for big decorations, just like you can get a small tip to make roses from Wilton, or a large tip for making roses, same for borders. The Russian tips I got are about the same size as a standard Wilton decorating tip, but I also bought some large ones, big enough to do wide borders or frost cupcakes rather than decorate them. As PM mentioned, some of mine are more the size of a standard shot glass and those are used strictly for frosting cupcakes or making large decorations, like on a full sized sheet cake, or at least that's what I use them for.

Annie

Aha! Thanks, Annie. I have a big Wilton style regular tip that I use as a peppercorn funnel for the peppermill, but have never used for piping I have much smaller tips I use. Comparing to the couplers all the Russian ones with the flat etched ends look the size of my "funnel", and I was thinking those were the "shot glasses", but they're definitely not the frost a cupcake, like the ball tips, ones.

Whatever. I hope PM finds what she's looking for. :)

Thank you all. I'm still searching around Amazon and other on-line supply sites. I need to read everything carefully.... I keep seeing this chart posted for Russian tip sets and it clearly shows the tips were used to pipe multiple flowers onto cupcakes -- yet the tip itself is the size of a shotglass when compared to the cupcake overall. lol!

I’m not sure I understand why that is a problem.

PM, I checked the size of the tips I have. They are actually about half way between a standard Wilton tip and the big "shot glass" kind of tip, which I also have. So, bigger than the standard tip, but smaller than the large "frosting" type tip, if that helps.

I must also warn you that the standard couplers will not fit on the Russian tips. I just cut the tip off a disposable bag and stuff the tip in there, and it works.

Annie

Also, some of the Russian tip sets include couplers, if you want one.

I’ve never bothered with a coupler; they are not commonly used here.