How To Use Cake Piping Bag

Stop pressure when the bag is in the centre of the swirl then push the bag down and draw up sharply to finish.

How to use cake piping bag. First you need to know that there are several parts to a piping bag. You also may only have the coupling and the tips. Hold for longer to release more icing if you want to create a bigger dot.

This will allow the bag to remain open as you start filling the icing into it. How To Use A Piping Bag. Use a large star or plain nozzle hold the bag vertically and pipe a ring of icing around the edge of the cupcake.

To pipe swirls on cupcakes. Fold the top of the bag down about halfway to create a cuff. Starting with 6 oclock on an imaginary clock dial pipe lines of icing on the side of the cake from top to bottom.

Squeeze the piping bag to draw the frosting to the tip of the nozzle and create a dot with the bag vertically over the cake. So grab a piping bag and get moving. If you want to make a piping bag start by finding a plastic resealable bag that can hold the amount of icing you want to use.

Gabrielle Feuersinger owner of San Franciscos Cake Coquette demonstrates the proper way to use a piping bag also known as a pastry bag to frost a cake or cupcake. Piping bag nozzles come in different sizes and shapes and there is an almost infinite number of piping bag bakes out there to choose from. Watch our video on how to decorate a cake for more piping techniques.

The smaller female piece will used later. For a flower design. Give the bag a twist for the most control.