How To Use Piping Bag Without Coupler

The bag will keep it nice and secure.

How to use piping bag without coupler. Then I mark where the bottom edge of the coupler is and trim the bag there. Using the piping bag. You can see that this method uses more piping bags but I like it because it also makes the cleaning of the tip easier.

A decorating bag is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end for many purposes including cake decoration. The two-piece coupler allows you to switch tips without getting a new bag. One of the pieces goes inside the bag before you fill it and the other piece twists on the outside to hold the tip in place.

When you buy your piping bags they have a solid tip that will need to be trimmed. Step 5 Hold the piping bag with tip down and open with both hands to fold it open. Click To Mark Complete.

I like to slip the coupler into the bag and push it down as far as it will go. Place the narrow end of the coupler down inside the decorating bag. We use a coupler the white ring holding the piping tip on the bag when piping yellow macaron polka dot batter in our Raspberry Lemonade Macaron Recipe Tutorial.

You can optionally use a tip only without a coupler if the piping tip will stay secure in the piping bag as shown with our Bomboloni or Florentine Doughnuts or Donuts Recipe Tutorial. If youre not using a tip at all thats pretty easy. Twist on the small part of the coupler to secure.

The two parts of the coupler are the base and the ring. 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. But since you are using plastic bags like everyone said just cut a smaller opening and make sure you squeeze the tip in and nothing will shoot out the sides.