Welcome to how to cook that I am Ann Reardon
Today I am going to show you how to cut an ordinary plastic bag and use it to pipe all
different styles.
Without the need for a piping tip.
Of course the simplest one is if you just cut a tiny bit off one corner.
You can use that to pipe lines, patterns, words, snowflakes, whatever you want.
Make sure you buy quality bag for this though, because some brands are strong enough to handle
frosting and they will just split at the seams.
If you want a medium round piping tip.
First add tape to one corner of the bag to make it firmer.
Then if you cut a straight across you'll see when you flatten it out the other way it isn't
straight across you'll get like a shape on your piping.
So instead of cutting it straight across what you want to do is cut a slight curve instead.
Place your frosting into the bag and starting in the centre piping a swirl around and up.
For our next cut tape the bag just like we did before.
And then make a small straight cut up the centre line and then one in from the side
to that line.
So you take out a chunk of the bag.
Let me show you that again cut up the center then across, so you take out a chunk.
Fill the bag with frosting and with the uncut part on top pipe and then pull away.
Continue to do that the whole way around your cupcake.
I developed these different ways of cutting bags a while ago now.
Probably a couple of years ago now and I've got a few old videos that have it in.
If you do have a piping bag and tips you can definitely use them instead.
But not everyone in the world has access to piping bags and tips and not everyone can
afford them Especially if you're using lots of different colours on the one cake, like
this rainbow cake so you need lots of bags.
There quick and beautiful.
For our next bag reinforce the corner of the bag with tape like we did before then cut
off the tiniest sliver from the corner.
So you are just cutting off a very tiny bit.
And you can use that anywhere that you want to pipe ribbons of frosting.
Here I'll just pile some up on the cupcake to show you what it looks like when you are
piping with it.
And then you can add some sprinkles on top.
You can use that same cut to pipe a border like a frilled border around the edge of a
cake.
And make sure your frosting is stiff enough to hold it's shape.
And I'll link you to the frosting recipe that I am using on the howtocookthat.net website.
I'll link to that in the description below.
If you use two colours in your frosting bag then you can get a pretty effect with your
ribbons there.
Take a new bag tape the corner and cut two slits coming in from the corner, making sure
they are the same length as each other.
Open up the bag and flatten out that corner and cut another slit the same length straight
up the middle.
I'll show you again, cut two slits, open the bag and flatten it out and cut one more slit
in the centre.
You can use this cut to pipe a big swirl on your cupcake all the way up to the top or
to do lots of little stars all over a cupcake to cover the whole thing.
For this next one fold the corner of you bag over and tape it into place.
Fill the bag with frosting and then use a toothpick or a skewer to push holes into the
bag.
So you fold over the corner, tape it into place and once you've filled it with frosting
poke holes into the bag.
Give it a gentle squeeze and if frosting is coming out of one hole more than the others
then just even it up by making the others a little bigger.
Just put the tooth pick back in and wriggle it around a little bit and then they should
be about even.
You can squeeze this all over your cupcake.
It makes really good monster hair for cookie monsters or you can use it for grass.
Cut a shallow curve from one side of the corner and you'll get a nice tip for piping rounded
blobs.
Let's use that to put a flower on top of the grass one.
Just pipe all of your petals in there and then just pop a candy on top.
Again if you use two tones of frosting in your bag you can use that exact same cut and
get a pretty effect on your frosting when you pipe it.
I've got a pink colour on the underneath and then the cream on the top so when it's piping
you can see it there on each side.
If you want a super quick one, put some tape on the edge of the bag fold the corner of
the bag up, cut a slit in the centre and then fold it flat again.
Put the frosting in the bag and then just squeeze the bag while you twist the cupcake
around using your other hand.
And then add a few sprinkles to the centre.
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