How To Use Piping Bag Without Coupler

Fat daddio as large tips made of polycarbonate that have an edge on purpose they dont require couplers.

How to use piping bag without coupler. You can pipe boarders on cakes pipe 3D flowers write words and even frost a cake from start to finish. And then push the coupler up so that you can cut your piping bag along the line marked earlier. The biggest difference I found when I use a coupler and a tip is I have more control of my icing.

If youll be switching back and forth between piping tips try using a coupler. Next step is to fit the piping tip. This is how it would look like.

Click to mark this step as completed. Twist on the small part of the coupler to secure. The bag will keep it nice and secure.

We use a coupler the white ring holding the piping tip on the bag when piping yellow macaron polka dot batter in our Raspberry Lemonade Macaron Recipe Tutorial. Then hold half the piping bag with your non dominant hand as you fold open the other half of the piping bag over your hand. Twist on the small part of the coupler to secure.

You can see that this method uses more piping bags but I like it because it also makes the cleaning of the tip easier. 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. Try a tip coupler.

You can optionally use a tip only without a coupler if the piping tip will stay secure in the piping bag as shown with our Bomboloni or Florentine Doughnuts or Donuts Recipe Tutorial. Step 5 Hold the piping bag with tip down and open with both hands to fold it open. I used a plastic disposable piping bag and the saran wrap stuck to it.