How To Put A Piping Tip On A Plastic Bag

The yellow line indicates where to cut the piping bag.

How to put a piping tip on a plastic bag. Once youve done this step you can fill the bag with frosting. You want it full so fill it to the top of the cup but still giving your bag. Use your scissors to mark where to cut then slide the tip back up a little out of the way.

Pull the twisted end of the plastic wrap through the open end of the bag and snip it off so the icing can pass and then attach a tip to your coupler. Using scissors trim off the tip of the pastry bag along the line you marked. You should be able to push a small part of the coupler out of the opening of the decorating bag.

Keep holding the bag and drop the edges of the bag around the glasss rim. If youre not using a tip at all thats pretty easy. Screw the ring on to hold the tip in place.

There should be little or no icing adhering to the lip of the bag so changing colors is as simple as popping in another roll of icing and coupling a fresh tip. Depending on purpose and consistency of the filling choose the adequate tip and insert it into the top part of the coupler. This will allow the bag to remain open as you start filling the icing into it.

Grab the coupler piece and separate it into two pieces. Filling The Pastry Bag. With a spoon or a spatula fill the bag with icing.

Feed this unknotted end of the wrapped icing pod or bullet through the icing bag and coupler. Push the piping tip down into the bag so that the opening of the tip protrudes through the hole in the bag. To change tips unscrew the coupler ring and remove the tip.