How To Put A Piping Tip On A Ziploc Bag

You dont want it to protrude out of the hole since the idea is to pinch the bag between the base and the collar.

How to put a piping tip on a ziploc bag. Spoon some melted chocolate into this piping bag and fold down to seal. Push the coupler base back into the bag and cut at the mark. Fill the bag to about two thirds full.

Wrap a piece of sticky tape around one corner of a zippered plastic bag. You can use zip-top bags slider-tip bags or simple sandwich bags that have a fold-over top. Take one end of that frosting-jump-rope and string it right into your piping bag and through the tip.

Now comes the trickiest part. Then insert the coupler into the bag and push it toward the hole you made. Insert your nozzle into your piping bag all through to the pointy end.

Simply put the frosting in the bag and push it to one corner. Once the base is in place put the tip on. Believe it or not you can make these buttercream cupcake frosting flowers using only a ziplock bag.

Once youve done this step you can fill the bag with frosting. Make a small triangle cut on one side of the zip lock bag. Trying to hold the icing bag in one hand while wrestling with the spatula in the other simply doesnt work for most of us.

Cut through the plastic horizontally where you had marked your line. Watch this short video and learn how to make piping bags out of Ziploc Bags. Fold the bag over the edges of the glass.