How To Use Piping Tip Without Coupler

The two-piece coupler allows you to switch tips without getting a new bag.

How to use piping tip without coupler. Be sure to use 16 piping bags instead of the smaller ones. Do I need to use a coupler. Using a Ziploc bag as a piping tip is fast and easy.

Ways to Frost Cupcakes Without a Piping Tip 1 Use a Plastic Ziploc Bag. Step 12 Switch piping tips by removing the coupler ring then remove the piping tip and replace with a different tip. Just snip the end of the bag.

Fat daddio as large tips made of polycarbonate that have an edge on purpose they dont require couplers. Maybe wouldnt be so bad using one of the reusable Wilton bags that are made from a different material. Be careful not to cut too much of the bag away.

Once the coupler or piping tip is secure hold it steady in one hand and give the bag a twist. Draw a small horizontal line on the outside of the pastry bag just above the opening of the piping tip inside the bag. Drop a piping tip into the pastry bag and push it down as far it can go.

A pastry bag or piping bag is an often cone- or triangular-shaped hand-held bag made from different pliable and food safe materials that is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end fitted with or without a piping tip. Also I neglected to use a coupler and so the plastic wrap got all in the way of the star tip and it didnt work. Just place the tip directly into the bag.

If youre using a tip with no coupler I use this method when Im using a larger tip for frosting cupcakes just push the tip into the bag and trim the piping bag so that about half of the tip sticks out. If you are unsure how much to cut start by cutting just a littleyou can always cut more if you need to. Simply cut the pastry bag right along the coupler to remove.