How To Use Icing Bag Tips

Filling The Pastry Bag.

How to use icing bag tips. Not too thick not too loose. With a spoon or a spatula fill the bag with icing. You can use most standard-sized decorating tips with a coupler.

Unfold the cuff push the icing all the way down and twist the bag where the icing ends. That one at the top keeps dried bits of icing from escaping. The way is to use an upright quart container put the tip of the bag in the bottom and open the filling end of the piping bag around the container.

Then you can leave it upright as you scoop wahtever you need to scoop into it. Drop the base of the coupler to the end of the decorating bag. Fitting a Bag with a Tip and Coupler.

You can use this method for plastic or disposable bags. Not only does this method cut down on cleaning time but also it extends the life of the disposable pastry bags. When it is just about all the way down but not coming out the end close the open end and twist the bag multiple times.

Fold down the top of the bag over the side of the glass to make a cuff. At the top of the frosting lift the Ziploc bag straight up to create a little point. Show-stopping bakery-worthy cakes coming right up.

This allows you to quickly and easily refill bags while decorating cookies. I like to put one at the top of the icing and one near the top of the bag. How do I use a coupler.