How to Make a Frosting Bag

Make your own frosting bag to add details to your desserts.

Frosting a cake or cupcake can be a simple process involving a knife and a single color of frosting. However, if you prefer a more elegant cake or a design with more details, you can use a frosting bag. Use frosting tips with your bag to create interesting outlines and shapes. Some tips create a circular line, while others create a ruffled, slanted or triangular line.

Things You'll Need

• Plastic bag
• Frosting tip (optional)
• Food coloring (optional)
• Spoon

Instructions

1. Prepare icing according to your favorite recipe or open a can of store-bought icing. If the icing has been in the refrigerator, leave it on the counter for 10 to 15 minutes to make it softer. If you must make icing quickly, mix powdered sugar and butter or margarine. You should use about four times as much sugar as margarine.

2. Add food coloring to the frosting, if desired. Add and mix dye before transferring the frosting into the plastic bag.

3. Open the plastic bag you wish to use for icing. Slide a decoration tip into the bottom corner of the bag. Push the tip into the corner until it punctures the bag slightly. You can also cut a small hole in the bag if it does not puncture easily.

4. Scoop the icing into the bag. Try to place the icing in the bottom corner of the plastic bag, close to the tip. Since icing sticks to the bag, this may not be possible.

5. Seal the plastic bag, if possible. Place your hands along the top edge of the bag and push down, gently. Push the icing towards the bottom of the bag until it is about to move through the tip.

6. Ice the cake or pastry by pressing on the thick part of the icing bag. Create shapes, words or outlines.

References

• Slashfood: How to Make a Piping Bag for Frosting; Nicole Weston; December 2006