How To Use Piping Tips With Plastic Bag

One of the pieces goes inside the bag before you fill it and the other piece twists on the outside to hold the tip in place.

How to use piping tips with plastic bag. Cut the bag at. Just snip the end of the bag. Filling a piping bag without the aid of a cup.

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. When piping make sure the cut end of the plastic is facing upwardsSqueeze the bag and lightly release pressure as you reach the tip of the petals. A coupler is a piece of plastic that fits inside the pastry bag where the tip would be but it attaches to tips.

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. It is easier to grab the end of the coupler than a tip that is snug in the pastry bag. The second part the ring is used to secure your tip in place.

If you dont plan on changing tips you do not need to use a coupler. Cut off its bottom and then cut it into a rectangle around 2 inches wide. You may cut the tip in different shapes like round star and triangles.

Take one side of the plastic wrap and fold it over to the next side matching up the edge your frosting will now be enclosed on the side of the plastic. Now comes the designer part. Open up your piping bag and put the piping tip that you wish to use in the bag.

Go all around the cupcake until you have created the desired size of your flower. Cleanup cleanup is easier with a coupler when using disposable pastry bags. Simply cut the pastry bag right along the coupler to remove.