How To Use Coupling In Piping Bag

A pastry bag or piping bag is an often cone- or triangular-shaped hand-held bag made from different pliable and food safe materials that is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end fitted with or without a piping tip.

How to use coupling in piping bag. If youre not using a. Push the coupler right into the tip of the bag and smoosh the frosting down behind it to remove the air before snipping the plastic end off the bag. Depending on purpose and consistency of the filling choose the adequate tip and insert it into the top part of the coupler.

All that without changing the piping bag. For this video I used a large Wilton coupler. The two-piece coupler allows you to switch tips without getting a new bag.

One of the pieces goes inside the bag before you fill it and the other piece twists on the outside to hold the tip in place. Simply cut the pastry bag right along the coupler to remove. The yellow line indicates where to cut the piping bag with scissors.

Next using a marker pen draw a small line as a cutting guide. Click to mark this step as completed. In this video I show you how to use a piping bag with a Wilton coupler.

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. If youre not using a. Once the coupler or piping tip is secure hold it steady in one hand and give the bag a twist.

If youre using a tip with no coupler I use this method when Im using a larger tip for frosting cupcakes just push the tip into the bag and trim the piping bag so that about half of the tip sticks out. A decorating bag is used to pipe semi-solid foods by pressing them through a narrow opening at one end for many purposes including cake decoration. Add a coupler icing to your decorating bag.