Assembling a Piping Bag

At some point recently – it was brought to my attention that people aren’t born with the innate ability to assemble pastry bags.

I don’t remember ever being taught this – though I’ve been decorating cakes since like pre-school – so it’s a bit unfair of me to assume people know how to do this.

This is the easy, cheap way – using ziploc bags.  Maybe sometime I’ll post how to make the parchment paper folded ones – but it’s hard to take pictures while making one of those.

You can buy plastic pastry bags – but freezer ziploc bags are just as good (actually better – I’ve had more seams break on the “pastry bags”)

You can also use the coated canvas ones – but I think they hold odors no matter how much you clean them. Yuck.

1.0 ghetto ziploc piping bag

Supplies:

• 1      ________________ gallon ziploc freezer bag (non-freezer bags break easily)
• 1   ________________ metal piping tip – whatever you need
• 1 ________________ 2 part coupler

Instructions:

• Open the bag, and place the large part of the coupler inside – the cone shaped part.
• Figure out how much of the end to cut off – just so that the bag still covers the threading.
• Place the metal tip on the end of the coupler – so the metal is covering the end of the bag.
• Screw the other piece of the coupler on, over the bag.
• The bag is now sandwiched between the two pieces.