If you love baking, then you’ll be all too familiar with the inevitable and unsightly mess that comes with creating beautiful cakes and cupcakes. It’s rather disheartening to see the cleaning that still lies ahead after spending your time making those delicious treats. Icing seems to be one of the biggest problems; if you’re using more than one color, then you have all the mixing bowls to clean, along with cleaning your piping bag in between the different colors. From this day forth, though, this will no longer be a problem.
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First things first; you don’t actually need to mix your icing colors in separate bowls – you can use the same one, and you don’t even have to clean it out. Start by mixing your lightest color first. As long as you really scrape out as much as you can when you’re done, you can carry on mixing your next color without it being tainted by the leftovers of the first. Just make sure you go from lightest to darkest.
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Video Instructions
Now for the real trick: the piping bag miracle…
- Cut a square of plastic wrap and dump out the icing in the center.
- Fold over one half—corner to corner—so that you make a triangle shape.
- Roll it up so that you’re left with a fat little sausage of icing with two long tails of plastic wrap on either side; twist the tails up.
- Take your little icing pouch and slip it into your piping bag so that the tail ends stick out both the top and bottom. At the smaller end, pull the tail tight so that the actual icing is near the tip.
- Secure the other end with a rubber band.
- Snip off the tail at the coupler end, put your tip on, and screw on the coupler.
Ta da! When you’re done, you can simply take off the rubber band and pull out the plastic wrap, leaving you with a clean-as-new piping bag, ready for the next one. All you’ve dirtied throughout this whole process is one bowl and one spoon.
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