How To Use A Piping Bag With Tip

With a large variety of star tips available you can use this piping technique as a border or to fill in a large character cake with frosting.

How to use a piping bag with tip. Reach in the bag with your hand to open it up. Place the piping bag inside a large tumbler and fold the top of the piping bag over the edge of the glass. Push it until its tip and one or two threads are showing through the cut hole.

If youre using a tip with no coupler I use this method when Im using a larger tip for frosting cupcakes just push the tip into the bag and trim the piping bag so that about half of the tip sticks out. The larger male piece will be dropped into the bag after it has been cut. Squeeze the piping bag with your dominant hand up by the top of the bag while doing a circle motion with the tip end.

Open your scissors and place the blades around the corner of the bag. Line your scissors up so that there is 052 inches 1351 cm of plastic sticking out past the line that youre going to cut. Then you can leave it upright as you scoop wahtever you need to scoop into it.

So grab a piping bag and get moving. Cut Your Piping Bag. Screw the ring on to hold the tip in place.

Before filling the piping bag place the coupler inside the piping bag at the tip. Close the scissor blades to snip a section of the bag off and make the spout for your piping bag. The cut that you make in your piping bag should be wide or narrow enough to make the design of your choice.

Fold-down sides of decorating bag over a glass to easily fill it with icing. Use a pair of scissors to mark a spot on the bag about inch before the first thread on the narrow end of the coupler. Flip the bag and tap the other side of the corner.