How To Make A Piping Bag With A Plastic Bag

So Im gonna show you how to turn an ordinary freezer bag into a piping bag.

How to make a piping bag with a plastic bag. Discover how to make a pastry bag from everyday materials with My Food and Family. Theyre definitely the way to go. Take a piece of plastic wrap about 8-10 long.

Plastic bags can make great piping bags because the frosting or sauce wont spill anywhere other than where you want it. For less icing you can take a smaller size of square and for more you can cut a bigger square. While holding on to one corner of the paper bring the other corner up and around the apex of the triangle.

Cut a large triangle from baking parchment. Reusable piping bags are also available but I have found them a total pain to clean plus if you want to make multiple kinds of icing just having one piping bag can hobble you. So the first thing youre gonna wanna do is take your freezer bag and youre gonna wanna cut off a very small corner.

Using the piping bag. You also may only have the coupling and the tips. My cake decorating instructor showed a great method for filling the decorator bag with icing.

This can help you decide if the size of the bag is large enough for the recipe. Its called a plastic wrap method. You may also enjoy.

You have the piping bag itself that is usually reusable the metal or plastic tips metal tips are better quality and a coupler that joins them together. All you need is a zip lock bag to frost your way into pastry bliss. Hi kiki you can use one if you want but for the methods shown above no piping tip is needed just the bag.