Piping bag techniques

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cupcake decorating: how to use tips to pipe frosting on cupcakes, tips from my book, Sugarlicious

Learn how to use a piping bag with our step-by-step guide covering prep, filling, and techniques for perfect dessert decorations every time.

Beginners Guide to Buttercream Piping: In this tutorial video, cake decorating beginners will learn how to create several different buttercream piping techn...

In the easy to follow tutorial, learn all about the piping preparation basics, including how to prepare and fill a piping bag.

What are Russian Piping Tips? Russian piping tips are large piping tips with flat ends that have several openings. The openings come in different patterns and produce a full flower when you pipe. Which type of icing is best for Russian piping tips? In order to get nicely defined flowers, you’ll want to use a medium to stiff consistency icing. I like Italian meringue buttercream, but you could also use Swiss meringue buttercream or American buttercream. The temperature of your icing is also…

When I first started decorating cakes and cupcakes, I used to get extremely frustrated filling my piping bag. I would hold the empty bag in one hand and try and scoop frosting in with the other. I somehow would manage to get frosting all over the outside of the bag and would often have trouble scooping the icing out of ... Read More

Fill bag half full with medium consistency Buttercream Icing. Practice with: Tip 104 Icing: medium consistency Positions: Bag: 45° at 6:00 Tip: Wide end touching surface, narrow end straight up With narrow end of tip pointing straight up, squeeze, moving the tip up and around to the left and back to the starting point. Continue around, making a second loop on the right. The two loops will form a figure 8. While holding bag in the same position, return to the center and squeeze out two…

Setting up an icing/piping bag

How to make a piping bag

This is by far the easiest way to fill a decorating bag using plastic wrap. Fill (and refill) without the mess!

What are piping bags and tips, and which ones should you get? We asked a professional baker.