How To Use A Plastic Bag To Pipe Frosting

Fold down the top of the bag over the side of the glass to make a cuff.

How to use a plastic bag to pipe frosting. Cut the wedges and pour the icing on a cupcake. Stick it into a piping bag then pull one end through. Instead of filling a piping bag by folding a flimsy bag over your hand fold it over a level pint glass.

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. Show-stopping bakery-worthy cakes coming right up. Fold the Ziploc square bag into a triangle.

Place the metal icing tip over the bag to join with the coupler and twist. Pull the frosting pouch up just a little to be able to squeeze the frosting into the tip of the bag. Fill your zip lock bag with frosting.

Drop the plastic wrap log into a large pastry bag fitted with a decorative piping tip using the excess plastic wrap to pull the log through the opening of the bag. This keeps the top part frosting-free and gives you a surface to scrape frosting from your spatula as you fill. Use your scissors to mark where to cut then slide the tip back up a little out of the way.

You can make as many nozzles as you want to give different shape frostings to your cake. This creates a small notch on one side of the bag. Put frosting in the middle of plastic wrap then roll it up from both ends.

When youre ready to fill the bag grab a tall glass or quart container to stabilize it. Do you dip cupcakes in frosting the same way. When the bag is about two-thirds full uncuff.