How To Use A Ziploc Bag As A Piping Bag

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How to use a ziploc bag as a piping bag. The reason is that a pastry bag is much thicker than a standard sandwich or freezer bag and has less give to it. You can also close off the top of your piping bag with bag ties or clips to prevent the filling from leaking out the other side. I wanted to develop a way of piping flowers without the need for specialty nozzles and piping bags.

Dec 11 2013 - Psssst. Trying to hold the icing bag in one hand while wrestling with the spatula in the other simply doesnt work for most of us. Keep twisting the end of the Ziploc bag to keep the frosting pushed down toward the tip and the air out of the bag.

What type would you recommend. A piping bag also known as a pastry bag is a cone-shaped bag that you fill with icing frosting or sauce. 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.

Prepare Your Piping Bag. HttpbitlyLindsayAnnBakesYouTubeINSTRUCTIONS BELOW OR HERE. Use a tall glass.

Use scissors to snip off one corner of the bag about 1 cm wide. Using two hands one near the top to push the icing downwards and one near the opening to guide the icing along hold the opening 12 inch up from the cupcake so that the frosting is not squashed as it comes. Fill the Ziploc bag with icing and close the top.

A small hole will be ideal for writing letters on your cake. Filling any type of icing bag Ziploc or pastry can be a messy process. When youre ready to fill the bag grab a tall glass or quart container to stabilize it.