How To Use Piping Bag With Tip

Pipe your buttercream on your favorite cupcakes or cake.

How to use piping bag with tip. You will need to press the icing to the surface of the cake to help it stick. How do I make frosting without a piping bag. Can you scrape off the icing with a ziploc bag.

The way is to use an upright quart container put the tip of the bag in the bottom and open the filling end of the piping bag around the container. Fill the Ziploc bag with icing and close the top. 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.

Line your scissors up so that there is 052 inches 1351 cm of plastic sticking out past the line that. If you plan to use the same bag of icing with different tips prepare your bag with a coupler. If you dont have nozzles you may need to fill 2-3 piping bags with the frosting and give a different shape to the tip of each bag.

The two-piece coupler allows you to switch tips without getting a new bag. Step 5 Hold the piping bag with tip down and open with both hands to fold it open. Slip the tip into the bag and place it snugly in the bottom of the bag.

Use scissors to snip off one corner of the bag about 1 cm wide. Insert the tip. If you are using a couple set insert the inside plastic piece into the bag first.

This will leave you very little cleanup at the end. You can use zip-top bags slider-tip bags or simple sandwich bags that have a fold-over top. Hold your piping bag straight up and down with the tip pointed downward.