How To Use A Piping Tip Without A Coupler

There are off course larger couplers for the larger piping tips.

How to use a piping tip without a coupler. You would probably start and finish piping the flowers in one color first. The two-piece coupler allows you to switch tips without getting a new bag. Place the metal icing tip over the bag to join with the coupler and twist.

The base fits inside the bag then you put the decorating tip of your choice over the portion of the coupler that sticks out of the bag. If you have only one pastry tip and no coupler improvise using. Many recipes and baking tutorials call for a device called a coupler inside the pastry bag.

So you might say that a decorating coupler is a must have tool for most of us. I find this leads to leaking bags. Never had a problem.

Be very careful not to cut too much off the end of your piping bag. -Edited to fix typos. Russian piping tips are not as angled as regular piping tips so this makes them more.

These tools allow you to quickly switch between tip styles without having to change bags and refill your icing or pastry dough. How to Pipe Different Colored Icing without Changing the Piping Tip. 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.

Click to mark this step as completed. Place a decorating tip over the part of the base extending from the bag. Cut the bag just past the end of the coupler.