How To Use Icing Tips Without Coupler

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How to use icing tips without coupler. Place the bag filled with frosting inside the new bag. The two parts of the coupler are the base and the ring. For large tips including a 1M you can use a large coupler but I find its not needed.

If you plan on using a bag with just one tip or are using a larger tip such as 1M 2D or Tip 789 prepare the bag without a coupler. When I use my large piping tips they dont fit on the coupler so I drop them straight into the piping bag. Couplers usually come in two plastic pieces a base and a ring.

Simply cut the pastry bag right along the coupler to remove. You roll them to form a cone. You can use icing tips with no couplers just push the tip inside the bag and cut the end off allowing just the end of the tip to stick out.

On that note if you like the frosting mixture in your bag but want to change tips and you dont have a large coupler heres what you can do. Drop a piping tip into the pastry bag and push it down as far it can go. Step 3 Place the piping tip on top of the coupler base so that the piping bag sits between the coupler base and the piping tip.

Draw a small horizontal line on the outside of the pastry bag just above the opening of the piping tip inside the bag. If you dont plan on changing tips you do not need to use a coupler. Fat daddio as large tips made of polycarbonate that have an edge on purpose they dont require couplers.

Simply drop your tip into the decorating bag and use scissors or a pen to mark a line about 12 way up the tip. Choose which type of decorating bagcone you would like to use. Trim off the tip of the bag.