Dumb Question-Buttercream Balloons

Decorating By Stef43 Updated 23 Oct 2008 , 12:23am by psurrette

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Stef43 Posted 22 Oct 2008 , 11:54pm
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I never actually thought on how to make buttercream balloons. Do u use a tip or do u just cut the end of the bag off? maybe a lil insight would be nice. thanks

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Chef_Rinny Posted 23 Oct 2008 , 12:03am
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You can use a large round tip, the larger the tip the larger the balloon.

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stephaniescakenj Posted 23 Oct 2008 , 12:03am
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I've never given it much thought either, I would say you could either use a big round tip, start fat and then sort of drag it out a little thinner or you could just cut the end of the bag and go from there too.

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tdybear1978 Posted 23 Oct 2008 , 12:07am
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I just cut my bag as usual and put in a coupler - to where it comes just barely out of the bag. Then I have a perfect circle. I place that bag straight up and down above the cake make a blob of icing as large as I want the balloon to be then start bringing down decreasing my pressure as I go. I have found that the coupler makes many sizes of balloons and it just works perfectly for me.

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SpringFlour Posted 23 Oct 2008 , 12:10am
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I used a large round tip. Yellow cake in my gallery.

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psurrette Posted 23 Oct 2008 , 12:23am
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Heres a link onhow to do it.

http://www.wilton.com/technique/Balloons

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