How To Pipe Icing With A Plastic Bag

A neatly applied icing ganache or jam can turn any simple cake into a masterpiece.

How to pipe icing with a plastic bag. My cake decorating instructor showed a great method for filling the decorator bag with icing. Fold the Ziploc square bag into a triangle. Keep twisting the end of the Ziploc bag to keep the frosting pushed down toward the tip and the air out of the bag.

I wanted to develop a way of piping flowers without the need for specialty nozzles and piping bags. With a spatula take a bit of frosting and place it in the center 1 away from the edge. Take a piece of plastic wrap about 8-10 long.

It took a few experiments but in the end I figured out which direction to place the cuts to make the flowers turn out beautifully. Dont overfill the piping bag. Using two hands one near the top to push the icing downwards and one near the opening to guide the icing along hold the opening 12 inch up from the cupcake so that the frosting is not squashed as it comes out.

But you do you. Dont overfill your piping bag and squeeze from the top as you ice otherwise icing will ooze out the top. Swirly icing used to dress cupcakes or for decorative elements on frosted cakes is made by using a star shaped nozzle in a piping bag.

Get ready to find your inner pastry chef and create beautiful iced desserts with this simple Ziploc icing bag trick. Fill you bag with buttercream buttercream recipes here and twist the top of the bag closed so that when you squeeze the icing it does not come out of the top of the bag. I mean I did once.

Adding too much frosting into the bag will make it difficult to use and may cause the frosting to squirt out of the wrong end. This is my way of making my own pip. Assembling a piping bag the right way is what separates pros from amateurs among bakers and pastry chefs.