Any festive feast traditionally ends with dessert, the appearance of a bright colorful cake. The housewife needs to use all her imagination and skill to decorate the baked goods. There are many techniques for decorating desserts. The most accessible and inexpensive is to use a pastry syringe (bag) with a variety of attachments. Using them, you can make flowers, borders, and inscriptions from cream. In the absence of such devices, it is not difficult to make a pastry bag with your own hands.
You can make your own simple devices for decorating pastries and pies.
DIY piping bag (disposable)
The material for the manufacture of this version of the product can be a thick polyethylene bag, a file, or a bag for freezing food. Place the cream in the resulting bag, remove the air, and secure with an elastic band. All that's left is to cut off the corner required diameter, taking into account the size of your decor. The larger the diameter of the hole, the larger the jewelry you can make. This device is easy to use and should be thrown away after use.
A convenient, durable bag can be made from a thick file. Cut the file almost diagonally, leaving one triangle larger than the other. Take two pieces of parchment approximately 40 x 40 cm in size. Place the larger triangle between these sheets, iron the cut line as hot as possible without steam. Remove the parchment. The seam turns out to be very durable. Cut off the corner of the triangular bag. If you insert a nozzle, be guided by its size.
Reusable option
To make the bag you will need a thick fabric, such as teak. It is very dense and does not allow even the smallest particles to pass through. Cut out a triangle with a height of 35–40 cm and a base width of 30–35 cm. Select the size of the hole in the upper part so that the nozzle you are going to use fits tightly. Stitch it up side part triangle, overcast the seam. Insert the nozzle. The seam should be on the front side of the product, the cream will clog less, and the product will be easier to wash.
DIY pastry syringe
In its design, a culinary syringe is similar to a medical one. It is a cylinder with a piston into which cream is loaded. It comes with a large set of various attachments that can be used to easily decorate a cake or make shaped cookies. If you don’t have this device at hand or you use it very rarely, you can make a pastry syringe with your own hands at home.
Here are a few options:
- You will need an empty mayonnaise packet with a dispenser. Cut off the bottom of the bag and rinse the inside thoroughly. Wipe with a napkin, fill with cream and start decorating the baked goods.
- You can make a pastry syringe with your own hands from plastic bottle. Make a hole in the cork using an awl or knitting needle. required size. If you will be decorating baked goods, you need a small hole. If you want to make shaped cookies, make the hole larger. Close the bottle with a lid, cut off the bottom, fill it with cream or dough.
DIY confectionery attachments
If you don’t have a professional syringe at hand, you can make interesting cream attachments with your own hands: 
- You will need a plastic juice bottle with a wider mouth than usual. Cut off the neck along with the lid. From a tin can, cut out circles slightly smaller than the diameter of the lid. In these circles, cut holes in the shape of various stars, punch several round or oblong holes. Cut off the corner of the plastic bag, insert the cap with the bottle cone into this hole, and secure with tape. Place the tin circle into the lid and fill the bag with cream or dough. With this simple device you can make all kinds of decorations from cream.
- To create inscriptions and fine lines on the surface of the cake, you need a thin cone nozzle. In this case, a plastic bottle with a standard neck will also come to our aid. Squeeze the bottle cap with tweezers or pliers, and use a candle or lighter to heat the bottom. When the plastic becomes soft, pierce the lid with a wooden toothpick in the center and cool. Once the plastic has set, cut off the tip of the toothpick and remove it. You will get a lid with a sharp cone. Use scissors to remove the top of the bottle. Let's figure out how to put the nozzle on a pastry bag. Make a hole in a plastic bag, insert the neck of a bottle without a cap into it, unscrew the plastic, screw on the cap. Your DIY pastry syringe is ready.
DIY parchment cornet
With the help of a cornet, more elegant and small decorations for dessert, thin curls and inscriptions are made. To make it you will need parchment. Cut a triangle out of paper and roll it into a cone. Secure the edges by folding them inward. This is necessary so that the cream does not get between the layers of paper. Fill it with cream, icing or chocolate. Cut off the tip of the cone, using a curly corner. The DIY cornet for icing is ready.
Using available materials, you can make devices for decorating cakes yourself. Good luck to you!
When baking a pie or cake, we think about how best to decorate it. You can simply pour glaze over it, or you can decorate it with painted flowers, patterns and petals. To create intricate designs with cream or paste, you will need a piping bag.
But what to do if you don’t have such a bag at hand, but you need to decorate cakes with cream or make rosettes from cookie dough right away. Don’t despair, you can make a pastry bag with your own hands from scrap materials.
DIY pastry bag from a plastic bottle and cellophane bag
In order to make carved patterns from cream, it is necessary that the mass be squeezed out of a bag with a carved tip. It must be hard and withstand any pressure placed on it, otherwise the pattern will not work. A plastic bottle is used for these purposes.
You will need following materials:
- plastic bottle,
- small clean plastic bag ik,
- marker,
- scissors
- stationery knife.
Stage 1
Measure 4-5 cm from the top of the bottle and put a mark. Make several marks and connect them with one line. Next, cut the neck along the marked strip using scissors. You only need the neck of the bottle to work with, so you can throw the rest of it in the trash bin.
Stage 2
Unscrew the cap and remove the inner silicone layer that is included in each cap.
Stage 3
Make a hole in the lid with a diameter of approximately 0.5-0.7 mm.
Stage 4
On the silicone layer that you took out of the lid, use a marker in the center to draw the pattern that you would like to get. With help stationery knife cut out the pattern along the outline. Don’t hold back your fantasies, because the pattern you make will depend on how you cut it.
Stage 5
Insert the silicone layer back into the lid. Once again, thoroughly wash the neck and cap of the bottle to remove plastic shavings and dust.
Stage 6
Cut off one corner of the bag by 2 cm, put it on the thread and screw on the cap so that the bag is secured between the cap and the thread of the neck of the bottle. If you do not secure the bag well, the bottle will not hold and you will not be able to work with such a bag.
There is another option, how else you can fasten the bag and the neck of the bottle. Insert the package into it. Pass the cut corner of the bag into the neck, pushing it from the side of the cut part and remove it from the neck. Fold the edges of the bag over the threads and screw on the lid.
In other words, the neck of the bottle will be placed on the cut corner of the bag, and the edges of the cut corner of the bag will be turned inside out and secured with a twisted cap. So, you have a DIY pastry bag. The cake cream or cookie dough is placed in a bag, and it will be squeezed out through the lid, taking the shape of the pattern that you came up with and cut out.
You can make several interchangeable lids with different patterns inside. The package containing the mass is disposable and is thrown away immediately after use. Next time you will need a new bag.
Using the same method, you can use a bottle with an elongated lid for easy drinking.
It can be used as a type of pattern, worn on the same neck, if the thread matches.
Also, the hole in the bottle cap can be made wider, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, while the pattern on the silicone layer can be made larger and more complex.
DIY paper pastry bag
For this type of piping bag, you will need a sheet of strong waterproof paper and scissors. A sheet of baking parchment works great.
Stage 1
Make an even square out of the sheet and fold it in half diagonally or from corner to corner.
Stage 2
Place the resulting triangle so that it looks at a right angle upward, and with the folded part towards you. Two sharp corners are located on the sides.
Stage 3
Now roll it into a funnel. The image below shows how to roll correctly.
Stage 4
The top edges can get in the way when working with confectionery products, so they are folded or cut off.
After filling the bag with contents, the edges (if you did not cut them off) can be folded inward or twisted into a spiral. In the second option, squeezing out the contents of the package will be much more convenient.
Stage 5
Cut the folded corner diagonally or give it a pretty star or wave design.
Your DIY pastry bag is ready. It is disposable, so upon completion of work it is thrown into the trash.
This paper bag is perfect for working with delicate consistency cream or paste. For a dense dough, use a piping bag made of a harder material.
DIY pastry bag from a plastic bag
To make such a bag you will need a thick plastic bag. The density of cellophane is quite suitable, from which a sleeve for baking products in the oven or a file for documents is made.
Option 1
The cellophane sheet is rolled into a funnel, as in the previous version of the paper pastry bag. An acute corner is cut in the form of a pattern or a semicircular hole.
Option 2
You can also use it in a bag, in which the cream is placed, and then rolled up into a funnel. In this case, the resulting sharp corner is carefully cut off with scissors, through which the contents will be squeezed out onto the prepared surface.
DIY pastry bag from a fragment of a used aluminum can
The materials you will need for this type of pastry bag are: a used aluminum drink can, a strong plastic bag and tape.
Stage 1
Wash the aluminum can from any remaining drink and dust and cut it into pieces. Cut off the top and bottom parts, leaving the middle in the form of a ring from the walls of the jar. Cut the ring lengthwise. So you got it a metal sheet made of thin aluminum.
Stage 2
Fold the metal sheet into a funnel and secure the outer edge with tape.
Stage 3
Cut the narrow edge of the funnel with jagged teeth into a star shape or other design as desired.
Stage 4
Use scissors to cut off the corner of the plastic bag. Regarding the angle, the cutout should not rise higher than 2 cm.
Stage 5
Insert the metal nozzle into the bag so that it locks into place and cannot be pulled out through this hole.
A DIY pastry bag made from a fragment of an aluminum can is ready. You can fill it with dough or cream and get to work.
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The first step is to prepare the cream itself and paint it in the desired colors. For our butter cream we needed to beat 250 grams of soft butter until white, then in portions, without stopping the mixer, add three glasses of sifted powdered sugar and pour in a couple of tablespoons of milk.
After coloring portions of the cream, distribute them into pastry bags, and if you don’t have the latter, then simple zip-lock bags will do.
The selected confectionery product, be it a cake, pastry, cupcake or cookie, is also topped with a layer of cream, chocolate or sugar glaze in a contrasting color to the chosen decor.
When all the preparatory operations are completed, you can begin to practice. You shouldn’t expect much variety from decor without special attachments, but it’s quite possible to reproduce classic flowers and petals from cream.
For the first tiny flowers, fold the tip of the piping bag under and cut the fold vertically.
With the end of the bag perpendicular to the surface of the area to be decorated, begin to pipe small portions of the cream, rotating the dessert so that the petals overlap each other, combining to form a whole flower. Pour out portions of the cream quickly and interrupt them with sharp movements. Drop a little cream of a different color into the center of the flower or place a round candy, imitating a receptacle.
Such chrysanthemums are no more difficult, but they take more time. Cut the corner of the pastry bag as shown in the diagram.
Place the bag cut side down at a 45 degree angle to the surface. Pipe out a small portion of cream, and then jerk the bag back.
Now the most classic cream decor is roses. They are the easiest to make. The end of the bag is folded and cut in the same way as in the first case, but instead of making cuts on two sides, you need to make them on four sides, re-straightening and re-folding the end in a different direction. The cuts must be as uniform in size as possible.
Hold the bag perpendicular and rotate the object to decorate until you get the desired size bud. Having reached the center of the bud, lift the bag up with a sharp movement.
There are many confectionery products that are difficult to imagine without cream decorations. Cakes, pastries, meringues, cookies, profiteroles, cupcakes without intricate cream patterns are boring and look very unappetizing, even if they have an amazing taste and seductive aroma.
In order for your culinary masterpieces to amaze your family and guests not only with their delicious taste, but also with their aesthetic appearance, you just need to master the technique of decorating baked goods with cream. To do this, you need to acquire special tools - pastry syringe or a bag with attachments, which no pastry chef can do without.
You can freely buy these factory-made devices, or you can make a pastry bag with your own hands, as it is quite simple. The ability to make such a design using scrap materials can be useful to you if you preferred to use a syringe, and your trusty kitchen helper suddenly broke down, and there is no time to restore it or it is too expensive.
A homemade device in an emergency situation will simply save the situation.
After all, it can be made in a matter of minutes from a plastic bag or thick paper. True, it will be disposable, but it will not need to be washed, and it can be filled with almost any creamy mixtures.
If desired, you can make a woven pastry bag for reusable use. It will be stronger and more spacious. It is very convenient to use products made from water-repellent materials on a fabric basis. Such devices will need to be washed thoroughly, while cotton ones can be boiled and ironed for disinfection.
Plastic bag
To make it, you just need a bag (preferably made of thick polyethylene, such as milk, or with a zip fastener) and scissors. Fill the bag with cream, cut off a corner of a suitable size (the thickness of the strip of cream being squeezed out will depend on this) and start decorating the baked goods.
Paper bag
For such simple device All you need is a piece of baking paper, wax paper or baking parchment of the appropriate size. The process of making it is as follows: cut a square or triangle out of paper and roll it into a cone shape.
There should be no gaps between the layers of paper into which the cream can seep. Fold the edges of the base of the cone to secure the structure. After that, fill it with cream and cut off a corner. You can cut out a shaped edge of a corner on thick paper. It can partially replace the nozzle.
You can also make a piping bag with DIY tips. To do this, cut off the neck of a regular plastic bottle, retreating a few millimeters below the thread, and secure it to the bag with tape (with outside).
Push the cream towards the nozzle and, directing the flow of cream, decorate the dessert.
Fabric bag
You can buy it ready-made, but it’s easy to sew a pastry bag with your own hands. When choosing a fabric, make sure it is easy to wash. It's better to choose White color, if you want to sew a product from colored material, make sure that it does not fade. Dense teak is perfect - it is durable, natural, and can be disinfected at high temperatures.
Cut a triangle (isosceles) from the fabric, sew 2 sides, cut the top to the size of the attachments on which you will put it. Finish (tuck) the seams along the edge of the cone. The seams along the structure should be on the outside so that they do not need to be washed off from the cream.
Plastic bottle attachments
Using caps from plastic bottles, you can make a variety of shaped attachments for any bag to which the neck of the same bottle is attached. To do this, in addition to the container mentioned, you need to arm yourself with a knife with a sharp end and a marker.
Draw the outline of the proposed hole on the lid, then use a knife to cut out the figure exactly along the outline. The most simple options designs - stars, snowflakes, crowns - give beautiful outlines of a strip of cream. Having processed several lids in this way, you will receive a whole set of replaceable nozzles with holes of different configurations and sizes!
You can attach the neck of the bottle to the woven bag using a needle and thread. To do this, you need to cut the neck slightly below the thread, make holes along the edge for a needle and thread, which you will use to sew it to the product.
In a similar way, small shaped nozzles can also be made from caps for nasal spray bottles. They will be convenient for doing more delicate work and applying openwork patterns.
Simplifies the production of a cap with a shutter, as on bottles for mineral water for children or athletes. The shutter is easily removed from the cap, and the narrow opening itself is convenient for drawing with cream.
To make the work of decorating baked goods easier and to make decorations more neat and beautiful, use the following tips on the technique of applying patterns with cream:
- using a pastry bag, make patterns with your left hand, and hold it with your right and at the same time lightly squeeze it;
- start practicing with simple drawings;
- First use asterisks and dots as “strokes”;
- to apply dots, take a round nozzle, squeeze out a dot and quickly carefully lift the bag into a vertical position, stopping pressing on it;
- make the stars in exactly the same way, only with a shaped nozzle;
- so that your hand does not tremble from tension, place it under right hand left as a support;
- causing small patterns or inscriptions, keep the attachment close to the baking surface.
Home baking is not only an interesting pastime, but also a very relevant hobby, given the fact that in the modern confectionery industry they are not always used. natural ingredients, high-quality safe fats, not to mention the widespread use of dyes, preservatives and other chemicals.
Therefore, if you have at least a little free time, do not regret it and carve out an hour in order to find an easy and quick recipe for delicious homemade baked goods. After all, there are now a lot of them on the Internet - for every taste - from traditional proven “grandmother’s” recipes to fashionable, gourmet or exotic desserts.
If it is difficult for you to deny yourself the sight of sweets, all kinds of pies, cookies and other things, then you cannot do without it.
We are talking about a pastry bag - best friend any pastry chef. You can do a lot of things with it: decorate cakes, pastries, fill eclairs, etc. Today we will talk about how to make a pastry bag yourself.
What is a piping bag used for?
For your culinary masterpieces to be admired by all your family and friends, they must not only be tasty, but also look aesthetically good. To do this, you will need to familiarize yourself with the technique of decorating baked goods with cream. To do this, stock up on some special tools, such as a pastry syringe or a multi-nozzle piping bag.
Of course, you can buy a ready-made bag in a special store, but it’s better to make it yourself, since it’s very easy. In addition, this skill can be very useful to you in case you are using a syringe in the kitchen, and it suddenly breaks, and there is either no time or is expensive to restore it.
So, with the help of a homemade product you can get out of a difficult situation, because it is done very quickly and simply. Confectionery bags can be single-use or reusable, depending on the material from which they are made. Disposable products can be made from a plastic bag or paper; they are very convenient because they do not need to be washed and can be filled with almost all types of creams. As for reusable bags, they can be made from a plastic bottle or fabric. They will need to be washed especially carefully, and if cotton is used, then also boiled and ironed (as a disinfectant).
How to make a pastry bag from a plastic bag with your own hands
So, let's move on directly to manufacturing. homemade bags. Let's start with the simplest. For this we will need a plastic bag and scissors. The bag should be thick and transparent, with a zip fastener.
The manufacturing process is very simple:
1) open the bag and carefully fill it with cream using a spoon;
2) after this, fasten the clasp or secure the package with a knot;
3) cut off a small corner of the package - ready!
It should be noted that such a simple version of the package is not multifunctional. For example, it is unlikely that it will be possible to make the same thickness with its help; you will also not be able to make shaped decorations. However, when there is no alternative, this bag option is quite suitable.
How to make a pastry bag out of paper
The paper version of the pastry bag has a few more options. Waxed paper or pastry parchment is suitable as a base. If the paper is thick enough, you can use a cut out figured corner as a nozzle. Thus, to make a paper pastry bag, we need to cut a triangle out of paper and roll it into a cone.
Important point: Be sure to make sure that there are no gaps between the layers of paper, as cream may seep through them!
How to make a nozzle from a plastic bottle
If you need to make beautiful roses or other decorations, you cannot do without a shaped attachment from a plastic bottle.
So, prepare:
plastic bottle;
knife;
marker;
pastry bag made from a bag or fabric.
The nozzle manufacturing process is as follows:
1) first you need to cut off the neck of the plastic bottle;
2) draw the desired pattern on the lid with a marker, then, focusing on the drawing, cut out a hole with a knife. As a design, you can make a snowflake, a crown or any other of your imagination;
3) screw the lid on the neck and attach the shaped nozzle to our homemade bag.
That's it, the nozzle is ready. With this master class, you can make several shaped attachments at once for a larger selection; your household and guests will not remain indifferent!
In addition to the cap of a plastic bottle, you can also use small caps from nasal spray bottles as a nozzle, since their dimensions are perfect for creating thin lines.
To make work easier decorative finishing baking, novice confectioners should use the following recommendations:
1) when using a pastry bag, you need to make patterns with your left hand, and hold it with your right hand and slightly squeeze it;
2) don’t try to make fabulous landscapes right away, start with something simple, for example, dots or stars;
3) to apply dots, use a round nozzle: take it, squeeze out the dot and immediately return it to a vertical position, also stop pressing;
4) stars can be made in exactly the same way, but with a shaped nozzle;
5) so that during work your hand trembles from tension, you can substitute your left hand under your right hand as a support;
6) when applying small patterns or inscriptions, the nozzle should be kept as close to the baking surface as possible.
Baking at home is not just an educational pastime, it is also a very modern hobby, considering that the modern confectionery industry uses natural ingredients and safe fats less and less, and this is without mentioning the dyes, preservatives and other chemical additives.
Therefore, if you have at least a small amount time, even one hour, do not regret it and use it to prepare some simple tasty home recipe baking. Fortunately, today there is simply a sea of them online, ranging from traditional “grandmother’s” to modern gourmet desserts.
