How To Use Icing Bag With Tips

You can use them with a different bag.

How to use icing bag with tips. Fill with frosting uncuff and close tightly. You can then use this to make your designs using this single shape only. It also makes changing piping tips easy as the tip is held by the coupler outside the piping bag.

Perfect your frosting technique with our how-to video on assembling and filling a pastry bag. If youre new to decorating with a bag and tip try using a tip set. If you plan to use the same bag of icing with different tips prepare your bag with a coupler.

The way is to use an upright quart container put the tip of the bag in the bottom and open the filling end of the piping bag around the container. Youll go through a lot of frosting and wont want to constantly be refilling. Theres an easier way.

A coupler is a two-part small plastic nozzle that fits inside a piping bag so that you can change icing tips with ease. This keeps the top part frosting-free and gives you a surface to scrape frosting from your spatula as you fill. If you want to make two-toned flowers youll have to layer the colors inside your piping bag.

Drop the base of the coupler to the end of the decorating bag. Grab the coupler piece and separate it into two pieces. It also means that you can end up with icing all over every surface as you try to fill the bag from the bowl you have.

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. Dont put the tip on yet. Once the bag is sealed squeeze all of the icing down into 1 corner of the bag and use scissors to snip off the corner of the plastic bag.