How To Put Coupler On Pastry Bag

Directions without a Coupler.

How to put coupler on pastry bag. Replace with the new tip and screw the ring back in place. You want it full so fill it to the top of the cup but still giving your bag room to twist it closed at the top. Drop the base of the coupler to the end of the decorating bag.

The narrow end of the base should be facing the bottom or narrow end of the bag. One plastic piece gets inserted into the bag and then the outside ring. Next place the icing tip over the bag and onto the coupler.

Then undo the cuff and squeeze the icing down being careful not to let the icing ooze back up and out the wrong. This holds the tip in place but allows the tip to be easily changed when decorating if a different design is needed. A marker or pen.

Mark the tip with a marker. Many recipes and baking tutorials call for a device called a coupler inside the pastry bag. Remove the decorating tip and cut.

Slide coupler over tip and tighten around pastry. Some piping bag instructions will tell you to cut the bag at the threads. Open your pastry bag and drop the coupler inside pushing the narrow end of the coupler into the narrowest part of the bag.

Click to mark this step as completed 2. You might be OK if you are working with a light fluffy frosting but I feel like the pressure it takes to use a stiffer frosting always. To begin unscrew the ring from the base of the coupler and put the base in the pastry bag.