How To Use A Pastry Tip Coupler

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How to use a pastry tip coupler. Once the first piece is in place in the bag you can put your piping tip on the outside of the bag and then screw. Trained pastry chefs are taught elaborate techniques for fashioning pastry bags out of folded paper. A decorating coupler makes decorating cookies and cakes a little easier for us.

A two-part device called a coupler lets you use different decorating tips with the same bag of icing creating several designs with the same color and consistency. The fine folks at Chow. So when I need to do a little piping say of jam into a doughnut I go the pre-fab route.

To begin unscrew the ring from the base of the coupler and put the base in the pastry bag. Using a marker or pen make a mark just below the very bottom. This system fits inside cake decorating bags or cones and allows you to use the same icing with different tips.

Pastry or decorating tips in either metal or plastic fit in the pastry bag through a hole in its narrow opening at one end. Click to mark this step as completed. Any kind of pastry tips will work but for straight lines a 10 plain round tip is good for bolder lines and a 2 plain round tip is best for finer lines.

By standard I mean the normal-sized piping tips and not the larger ones like tip number 2D. To change tips unscrew the coupler ring and remove the tip. The ones I use are Wilton couplers and the size can fit all Wilton standard piping tips.

As for the bags not being a decorating. A marker or pen. Push the base down to the bottom of the bag as far as it will go.