How To Use Piping Tips With Coupler

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How to use piping tips with coupler. If you plan to use the same bag of icing with different tips prepare your bag with a coupler. Grab the ring and screw it back onto the coupler securing the decorating tip in place. Push the coupler up and cut the bag at the marked line.

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. You can use icing tips with no couplers just push the tip inside the bag and cut the end off allowing just the end of the tip. Replace with the new tip and screw the ring back in place.

Drop the larger piece into the piping bag then fit the piping tip over the top so that the bag and the coupler are inside the piping tip. Click To Mark Complete. The two parts of the coupler are the base and the ring.

A coupler is a two-part small plastic nozzle that fits inside a piping bag so that you can change icing tips with ease. Kate Van VleckDemand Media. Once cut push the coupler back to the tip of the piping bag.

Twist on the small part of the coupler to secure. You can use this coupler to create beautiful 3 color designs like in the photo below. 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.

Make sure the tip is straight and secure. Cut the bag youre using just above the tip. Drop the base of the coupler to the end of the decorating bag.