How To Use Icing Tips With Ziploc Bag

Use a pair of scissors to mark a spot on the bag about inch before the first thread on the narrow end of the coupler.

How to use icing tips with ziploc bag. If you have a zip lock bag you can frost a cupcake. Tips and Tricks for DIY Piping Tip. February 10 2013.

For roses hold your piping bag over the cupcake while holding the cupcake in your other hand. Drop the base of the coupler to the end of the decorating bag. 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 will make it much easier to keep the flow consistent. Make it easier on yourself by placing the icing bag in a tall glass. If you try to change between tips and you have the tip directly in your piping bag it means dumping all the contents of the bag into another bag which is a pain and also messy.

I wanted to develop a way of piping flowers without the need for specialty nozzles and piping bags. Filling any type of icing bag Ziploc or pastry can be a messy process. You can cut the tips of your piping bags so that what comes out is in a round shape.

I am clearly missing a critical step somewhere. This keeps the top part frosting-free and gives you a surface to scrape frosting from your spatula as you fill. Dont put the tip on yet.

If using a coupler place the coupler in the icing bag as you normally do. Just a Ziploc bag frosting and a sweet tooth. If you plan to use the same bag of icing with different tips prepare your bag with a coupler.