How To Pipe Icing With A Plastic Bag

Its called a plastic wrap method.

How to pipe icing with a plastic bag. Choose the style of flower that you want to pipe and cut you plastic bag according to the instructions shown in the video below. USING A PIPING BAG. Youll find both disposable and reusable piping bags on the market.

Assembling a piping bag the right way is what separates pros from amateurs among bakers and pastry chefs. Yes a Ziploc bag will do in a pinch but it isnt ideal and if you plan on piping regularly or even more than once a year disposable piping bags are easily found and very cheap. For a more recent video.

But they were kind of a mess and hard to clean. Keep holding the bag and drop the edges of the bag around the glasss rim. Fill Your Bag with Buttercream Icing.

Fill the tubular bag with the icing. Do you dip cupcakes in frosting the same way. If youve been using zip-top bags as makeshift piping bags its time to invest in some real piping bags that wont explode.

Frosting your cupcake with a homemade piping bag can be accomplished with materials you already have in your kitchen-- a Ziploc bag and Duck tape. My cake decorating instructor showed a great method for filling the decorator bag with icing. If you dont have a nozzle or a piping bag you can still cut a regular zippered plastic bag to achieve swirly icing.

Slowly pipe out a swirl while keeping the tip lifted from the. Drop the nozzle end down and let it stand in a narrow bowl or a tall glass. Fill you bag with buttercream buttercream recipes here and twist the top of the bag closed so that when you squeeze the icing it does not come out of the top of the bag.