How To Use Pastry Bag Without Coupler

This video shows you how to connect your pastry bag coupler and tip with the Cake Decorating Tip Set from Bake Heaven.

How to use pastry bag without coupler. A coupler is a two-part plastic device that lets you swap out the piping tip for another one without changing the piping bag. 14pastry bags hold 2 12 cups. With either a disposable or a canvas bag youll want to cut the bag as little as possible to ensure a snug fit.

Roll the triangle into a cone so that the point will be where the frosting comes out. Place a decorating tip over the part of the base extending from the bag. They are used primarily to secure the fit of piping tips to piping bags so that the icing does not leak out when squeezed for piping.

I then show you two different ways to fill your piping bag and then pipe a simple design on a cupcake. Put the ring over the tip and twist it on locking the tip in place. One plastic piece gets inserted into the bag and then the outside ring holding the pastry tip itself gets screwed in from the outside.

If your pastry bag does not have a hole at the tip already youll have to cut one. Grab your pastry bag kitchen shears tall drinking glass piping tips if you are piping small spoon and filling. The opening should just be large enough that the tip shows.

You can also use tips in most bags without a coupler if its pushed down securely into the open tip to fit. If youre using a thin filling or youve had leaky fillings in the past try snipping. A coupler is a two-part device base and a ring that lets you interchange several decorating tips without changing the pastry bag.

Add the end piece of the coupler on top of the tip to security in place. It lets you switch the tips attached to the bag without having to emptying its contents first. To figure out how much to cut off the end place the decorating tip in the bag and mark 13 from the tip of the bag.