How To Use Icing Tips With Ziploc Bag

This is my way of making my own pip.

How to use icing tips with ziploc bag. The cut that you make in your piping bag should be wide or narrow enough to make the design of your choice. A coupler is a piece of plastic that fits inside the pastry bag where the tip would be but it attaches to tips. Trying to hold the icing bag in one hand while wrestling with the spatula in the other simply doesnt work for most of us.

Dont have a pastry bag but want your cupcakes to look like their from a bakery. February 10 2013. If you have a zip lock bag you can frost a cupcake.

Get Baking with Our Best Chocolate Cupcakes. Open the bag as wide as possible and use a spatula to fill the bag with icing. When using a plastic Ziploc bag to pipe frosting or as Ive done in the photo filled deviled eggs instead of cutting across the corner cut into it and it will produce a star-like effect so you dont have to insert a decorator tip in the bag.

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. You can use icing tips with no couplers just push the tip inside the bag and cut the end off allowing just the end of the tip to stick out. If you try to change between tips and you have the tip directly in your piping bag it means dumping all the contents of the bag into another bag which is a pain and also messy.

Fill you bag with buttercream buttercream recipes here and twist the top of the bag closed so that when you squeeze the icing it does not come out of the top of the bag. Use a tall glass. You can cut the tips of your piping bags so that what comes out is in a round shape.

This will make it much easier to keep the flow consistent. I know you mention get strong bags but I tried using Glad version. Not only are they sturdier but they give you plenty of room to hold your frosting.