How To Use A Plastic Bag To Pipe Frosting
Fold the Ziploc square bag into a triangle.
How to use a plastic bag to pipe frosting. Heat the icing until its still thick but a little softer than usual. Prepare your plastic wrap. Afterwards you can cut the funnel in your desired shape or size and fix it on your piping bag.
When the bag is about two-thirds full uncuff. Twist the top shut and youre all set to pipe and re-use the bag. Use your scissors to mark where to cut then slide the tip back up a little out of the way.
Fill your zip lock bag with frosting. This creates a small notch on one side of the bag. Fill the pastry bag with the icing.
Fill the tubular bag with the icing. With a spatula take a bit of frosting and place it in the center 1 away from the edge. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap about the size of a legal-size piece of paper on your countertop.
Use the side of your hand or the side of the glass to scrape the frosting off the spatula. Perfect your frosting technique with our how-to video on assembling and filling a pastry bag. Prepping the piping bag.
Dont put the tip on yet. 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. Use a tall glass.