How to Use Bakery Crafts Disposable Pastry Bags
Cake decorating is an impressive skill, and those who are good at it can make extra income. Some bakers prefer disposable plastic pastry craft bags, and others use washable fabric bags. Beginner's kits often come with disposable plastic bags, so if embarking on a new hobby of cake decorating, start with disposable bags and graduate to more expensive fabric bags if you stick with it. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Plastic pastry bags
- Tips
- Rings
- Scissors
- Frosting
- Food coloring
- Mixing bowl
- Wooden spoon
- Rubber spatula
- Wax paper or baking parchment paper
Instructions
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Assemble supplies. To use disposable bakery craft bags, you will need to purchase a kit with multiple plastic pastry bags, tips for the frosting to come out and rings or couplers that hold the two together.
Snip the corner of a bag open. It is better to cut off too little and then snip again rather than cut off too much, which makes the bag unusable. Snip about 1/4 inch above the corner and see if that works before cutting again.
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Check the directions for the next step--some kits might be a little different. In general, you will screw a cake decorating tip into a ring. In some kits the tip snaps into place. Connect the tip and the ring.
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Place the tip and ring into the bag. Push the tip through the hole. Ideally, you will push the tip through the hole and the ring will remain stuck in the plastic bag. If you can't get the tip through, cut a little more off of the corner of the bag and try again. If the ring does not get stuck, then you cut too much off. Start again with a new bag.
If you're using couplers, there is another ring that screws over the bag onto the first ring.
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Use a can of whipped frosting--it is not necessary to make frosting from scratch. Scoop 1/2 to 1 cup of frosting into a mixing bowl. Add a couple of drops of food coloring. If using gel or powder food coloring, just add a tiny bit. You can always add more food coloring but you can't take it back out.
Thoroughly mix the food coloring and frosting with a wooden spoon. When the desired color is reached, scrape the bowl with the rubber spatula and spoon the frosting as neatly as you can into the plastic bag. Start at the top of the bag and squeeze down so that all of the frosting is in the bottom of the bag, near the tip.
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Tightly twist the top of the pastry bag above the frosting. Hold the bag with one hand near the top of the frosting, and with the other hand guide the decorating tip. Squeeze the top of the bag to push frosting out of the decorating tip.
Practice designs, such as roses and letters, on wax paper or parchment paper. Flowers and other frosting creations can be frozen on the paper for later use.
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Remove the tip and ring and coupler after the frosting is used up. The bag is disposable, but the other parts are not. You can cut the ring free with scissors when using disposable pastry bags.
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