How To Use Icing Bag Without Tip

I wanted to develop a way of piping flowers without the need for specialty nozzles and piping bags.

How to use icing bag without tip. If you have only one pastry tip and no coupler improvise using the tools you have. Drop a piping tip into the pastry bag and push it down as far it can go. Theyre definitely the way to go.

I mean I did once. You can use zip-top bags slider-tip bags or simple sandwich bags that have a fold-over top. Squeeze the piping bag to draw the frosting to the tip of the nozzle and create a dot with the bag vertically over the cake.

Use a pair of scissors to mark a spot on the bag about inch before the first thread on the narrow end of the coupler. It also makes changing piping tips easy as the tip is held by the coupler outside the piping bag. But they were kind of a mess and hard to clean.

If youve never used a coupler before its a great little tool that allows you to switch icing tips without using a new piping bag. Making two toned flowers with Russian piping tips. If youll be switching back and forth between piping tips try using a coupler.

Try a tip coupler. For large tips including a 1M you can use a large coupler but I find its not needed. Other names for piping bags are pastry bags or icing bags.

Kate Van VleckDemand Media. If you want your bag to produce a thicker flow. No not at all.