How To Put A Piping Tip On A Plastic Bag

Put the bag inside a tall cup and fold the edges over the cup.

How to put a piping tip on a plastic bag. Once you have filled it use a thread or rubber band to secure it tightly. Click to mark this step as completed. Pull the twisted end of the plastic wrap through the open end of the bag and snip it off so the icing can pass and then attach a tip to your coupler.

You need a gallon-size Ziploc bag duct tape and scissors. April Preisler for Taste of Home. Use a pair of scissors to mark a spot on the bag about inch before the first thread on the narrow end of the coupler.

When youve finished piping simply uncouple the tip and then shake out the plastic wrap and any remaining icing. Zippered Plastic Bag Method Wrap a piece of sticky tape around one corner of a zippered plastic bag. How to Set Up an IcingPiping Bag for Cake Decorating for regular tips Step1.

Fold the top of the bag over to create a cuff. Use your hands to work the tip all the way down to the very top of the bag as far down as it will go. Keep holding the bag and drop the edges of the bag around the glasss rim.

In order to gauge how much of the plastic bag tip to snip off insert the bottom half of the coupler into the empty pastry bag and snip off the top. If youre using a tip with no coupler I use this method when Im using a larger tip for frosting cupcakes just push the tip into the bag and trim the piping bag so that about half of the tip sticks out. Cut the tip of the bag.

Cut the tip of the bag off at the 14-inch mark and reinsert the nozzle which will poke out the tip of the bag so you can pipe on swirly icing. Place the coupler ring over the decorating piping or pastry tip. You want it full so fill it to the top of the cup but still giving your bag.