Pastry bags are an indispensable tool when it comes to neatly piping cupcake fillings, frosting, icing, and even pate à choux pastry treats like gougères. That is, if you know a few simple steps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. piping frosting onto a cake with a pastry bag - Sot/Getty Images If you've ever decorated a cake before -- whether it's a homemade ...

If you are a baker, you might know that pastry bags, also called piping bags, are vital to decorating cakes and cookies, making and filling eclairs and cream pastries, and topping desserts with ...

It’s always easier to fill a pastry bag when it is propped up and open. Roll down the top of the pastry bag and, depending on the size of the bag, fit it into a Pilsner beer glass, blender jar or ...

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In a pastry chef’s toolbox, you often find items like a candy thermometer, a bench scraper and an offset spatula, tools that professionals simply can’t live without. You may be surprised to find out ...

Cooking 101: How to make your own pastry bag Jennifer Rao, owner of Around the World in 80 Cakes, shows how to make a cost-effective pastry bag. I love money-saving cooking tricks. This week, Jennifer ...

I was very close to frosting this week's cupcakes with a pastry bag—they would have looked very pretty. But I couldn't find a tip to do it. (As a side note, BA has a helpful video on how to use a ...

The customer, named Don, has been going to the New York City-based bake shop for years, Levain Bakery tells PEOPLE @levainbakery Talk about customer appreciation! Levain Bakery — a sweets shop located ...