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Icing Pens

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -36.5% this quarter, so Icing Pens is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 20% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +7 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£76K/yr175K searches / yr
90-day growth
-36.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 60 sellers

Flapen Score

Icing Pens against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Icing Pens is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Icing Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Icing Pens 175K times last year and spent an estimated £76K. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 175K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -36.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
175K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-36.5%
Conversion, latest week
6.0%
Market size, estimated
£76Ka year
Peak month
December9.8× the quietest month
Top search term
icing pens67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.20.

Listings sell for £7.20 on average, from £2.23 to £19.36. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £7.20 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.20under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.23–£19.36
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #353 within Baking Supplies. It carries 231 reviews at 4.29 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
13.5%
Average rank
#353in Baking Supplies
Average rating
4.29 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
231per listing
Listings tracked
42

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 17 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

17 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
17
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Icing Pens products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 37% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£2K£5K£7K£9K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

60

Est. top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

29%

  • Dr. Oetker22%
  • Just Cutters20%
  • Cake Star11%
  • Twisweet7%
  • DOMI PRO6%
  • Morrisons5%

Demand

Icing Pens search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 9.8×

Search terms

Top Icing Pens search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • icing pens67K/yr
  • icing pens for cake decorating15K/yr
  • writing icing17K/yr
  • icing pen9K/yr
  • icing tubes14K/yr
  • writing icing tubes7K/yr
  • biscuit decorating kit6K/yr
  • icing tubes cake decorating5K/yr
  • icing pens for biscuit decorating8K/yr
  • cookie decorating5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Icing Pens

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

30%of positive reviews mention “Color”
27%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.1%of orders come back
“Very weak colour”
A buyer, on “Color”27% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Icing Pens questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data