How To Use A Plastic Bag To Pipe Frosting

Perfect your frosting technique with our how-to video on assembling and filling a pastry bag.

How to use a plastic bag to pipe frosting. Make your piping bag nozzle using soda can. This keeps the top part frosting-free and gives you a surface to scrape frosting from your spatula as you fill. Do you dip cupcakes in frosting the same way.

Fill the pastry bag with the icing. Be careful to keep the frosting inside the bag to avoid a mess. Prepare your plastic wrap.

Cut the tip and pipe. Hold for a couple of seconds until it takes shape and then dip it in water to cool down. How To Frost Cupcakes With A Piping Bag How to freeze cupcakes in a plastic bag How to make a zippered frosting bag.

If your prefer you can also cuff the bag top over a tall glass or plastic container and fill the pastry bag with icing. Push the coupler right into the tip of the bag and smoosh the frosting down behind it to remove the air before snipping the plastic end off the bag. Roll the top edge of the bag over the top of the glass and use a spatula to fill the bag with your frosting.

You can then fill the bag with frosting. When the bag is about two-thirds full uncuff. Fold the Ziploc square bag into a triangle.

Use a tall glass. Put frosting in the middle of plastic wrap then roll it up from both ends. Once the bag is halfway filled pick it up and give it a solid shake to help further settle the frosting in the bag.