How To Use Icing Bag Tips

Place the required type of frosting nozzle in the piping bag.

How to use icing bag tips. Cut the tip of the bag. Simply drop your tip into the decorating bag and use scissors or a pen to mark a line about 12 way up the tip. At the top of the frosting lift the Ziploc bag straight up to create a little point.

This keeps the top part frosting-free and gives you a surface to scrape frosting from your spatula as you fill. Filling The Pastry Bag. You want it full so fill it to the top of the cup but still giving your bag room to twist it closed at the top.

The first thing you want to do is find the seam of your bag make sure it is centered and simply place a piping tip of the size you want to cut over the tip of your bag. The larger male piece will be dropped into the bag after it has been cut. Fill with icing bend and hold the ends with one hand usually your writing hand and rest the tip of the bag in your other hand.

You may cut the tip in different shapes like round star and triangles. You want to make sure it is secure or the icing WILL come out that end. Drop the larger coupler piece into the bag so the tip is protruding slightly.

You can use most standard-sized decorating tips with a coupler. Place your frosting into the ziplock bag. There can be many attractive designs that you can make with piping bag with a round shaped tip.

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. How do I use a coupler. Grab the coupler piece and separate it into two pieces.