How To Use A Ziploc Bag As A Piping Bag

Believe it or not you can make these buttercream cupcake frosting flowers using only a ziplock bag.

How to use a ziploc bag as a piping bag. Yes a Ziploc bag will do in a pinch but it isnt ideal and if you plan on piping regularly or even more than once a year disposable piping bags are easily found and very cheap. Prepare Your Piping Bag. If you dont have a plastic bag.

Use your hands to work the tip all the way down to the very top of the bag as far down as it will go. To create a piping bag for frosting swirls and. All you need is a zip lock bag.

When using a plastic Ziploc bag to pipe frosting or as Ive done in the photo filled deviled eggs instead of cutting across the corner cut into it and it will produce a star-like effect so you dont have to insert a decorator tip in the bag. I mean I did once. A piping bag is used to force semi-solid foods into particular shapes turning a bowl of frosting into pretty swirls or getting a perfectly shaped éclair from a batch of raw dough.

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Open up your piping bag and put the piping tip that you wish to use in the bag. Use scissors to snip off one corner of the bag about 1 cm wide. Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and influence TV recommendations.

What type would you recommend. Keep twisting the end of the Ziploc bag to keep the frosting pushed down toward the tip and the air out of the bag. Filling any type of icing bag Ziploc or pastry can be a messy process.