How To Use Plastic Icing Bags

Pull the frosting pouch up just a little to be able to squeeze the frosting into the tip of the bag.

How to use plastic icing bags. Put a skewer into the caps bottom to create a funnel like shape that sticks out. Cut the tip of the bag. Heat a bottle cap over a candle until it becomes soft and malleable.

And then push the coupler up so that you can cut your piping bag along the line marked earlier. Simply fold the lowerbottom corner of the bag up to the opposite corner of the top of the bag and secure the line with duct tape. Tips you will need.

Also I neglected to use a coupler and so the plastic wrap got all in the way of the star tip and it didnt work. This is how it would look like. Like any part of cake decorating this takes practice.

To make this nozzle you need plastic bottle caps pliers scissors metal skewer and a candle. The answer is YES. Stick it into a piping bag then pull one end through.

Basically you simply put royal icing into neat little plastic wrap pods before putting the pod or bullet into the icing bag. Spoon in the icing. To fill your bag with icing simply place it in a glass of some sort and fold the edges over the side.

This allows you to quickly and easily refill bags while decorating cookies. The coupler is key to making this work. Next time youre preparing to a frost a cake and need to use a pastry bag grab some cling film first.