How To Use Icing Bag With Tips

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.

How to use icing bag with tips. Put the decorating tip on the edge of the coupler over the snipped bag and secure with the ring. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap about the size of a legal-size piece of paper on your countertop. Show-stopping bakery-worthy cakes coming right up.

Push the coupler base back into the bag. Be sure to use 16 piping bags instead of the smaller ones. Next prepare your different icing colors in smaller bags without tips.

Theres an easier way. If you want your bag to produce a thicker flow of icing you can cut a little more of the corner off the bag. If youre new to decorating with a bag and tip try using a tip set.

I prefer the Press and Seal but regular wrap works just as well. Place the bag filled. When youre ready to fill the bag grab a tall glass or quart container to stabilize it.

When youre ready to pipe the icing hold the bag over the cake or cookie and gently squeeze the bag to get the icing. Perfect your frosting technique with our how-to video on assembling and filling a pastry bag. They are used primarily to secure the fit of piping tips to piping bags so that the icing does not leak out when squeezed for piping.

Be careful not to cut too much of the bag away. Fill with frosting uncuff and close tightly. You have the piping bag itself that is usually reusable the metal or plastic tips metal tips are better quality and a coupler that joins them together.