How To Use Pastry Bag Without Coupler

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How to use pastry bag without coupler. If you have only one pastry tip and no coupler improvise using. Separate the coupler ring and base and drop in the cone shaped base narrow end down into the pastry bag forcing it as far as it will go. How to Trim A Pastry Bag.

18pastry bags hold 6 cups. Fitting a Coupler for a New Pastry Bag. Sometimes a pastry bag will need to be trimmed to fit couplers or large pastry tubes.

One plastic piece gets inserted into the bag and then the outside ring holding the pastry tip itself gets screwed in from the outside. Mark the outside of the bag where the first threads of the coupler. I then show you two different ways to fill your piping bag and then pipe a simple design on a cupcake.

Use a pencil to mark a line on the outside of the bag half way between the narrow end coupler and the first thread of the coupler. With either a disposable or a canvas bag youll want to cut the bag as little as possible to ensure a snug fit. Tape the cone together.

A coupler is a two-part device base and a ring that lets you interchange several decorating tips without changing the pastry bag. You will need the following. Place a decorating tip over the part of the base extending from the bag.

Add a metal piping tool and then the frosting. This video shows you how to connect your pastry bag coupler and tip with the Cake Decorating Tip Set from Bake Heaven. It also makes changing piping tips easy as the tip is held by the coupler outside the piping bag.