How To Use Pastry Tip Without Coupler

Slip the coupler or tip into the pastry bag let it peek out the small opening.

How to use pastry tip without coupler. Take off the coupler and piping tip and squeeze as much of the unused pastry bag contents back into its mixing bowl or storage container. Drop the coupler base narrow end first into the bag and push it down as far as you can. Next drop the piping bag into a tall pilsner or drinking glass and fold the opening of the bag down around the glass.

This is how it would look like. Ideally youll stretch the plastic a bit so its tight over the couplers threads. Remove ring from coupler base.

If youre using a small tip go ahead and secure it to the coupler now. Towel-dry tips and allow them to air-dry. Open your piping bag and put it one hand and then using your other hand scoop the icing into the piping bag and then gently squeeze the icing down the piping bag until it just begins to come through the nozzle and then you can start piping.

It is easier to grab the end of the coupler than a tip that is snug in the pastry bag. Decorating tips with wide bases require fewer pieces but many professional bakers prefer to use their smaller counterparts which require a plastic coupling that attaches the tip to the bag. Once cut push the coupler back to the tip of the piping bag.

Push the coupler up and cut the bag at the marked line. Also make sure the line is always below the thread lines on the coupler. Couplers make life less messy.

Just follow the same steps below. If you dont plan on changing tips you can put the tip directly in the bag but I ALWAYS use a coupler. Click To Mark Complete.