Question About The Icer Tip
Decorating By ntertayneme Updated 24 May 2005 , 11:25am by blessBeckysbaking
I have the icer tip, but it's so large, how do you put it in a bag of any size to use it to put the icing on the cake? I can see how it'd work.. I mean you could get the icing to cover the cake and then smooth it some what .. let that dry a bit.. kinda like the crumb coat, but you'd probably not get very many crumbs in your cake .. am I right w/this? now what kind of bag do you use to do this though??
Hi! I have been decorating for about 10 years and have always done it the "old fashioned way" What was I thinking? I have always had the tip, just never used it. Last week cut a large opening in my 16 inch bag, this bag will now always be my icer tip bag! I went at it, didnt even crumb coat and it was GREAT, I cant believe I never tried it earlier, just some evening with the spatula. Cut my flat frost time by 2/3. Sigh, If only I'd known.
Heather
Thanks gilpnh 
I have a lot of large bags from a bakery that closed... when I say large, some of these bags are like 22, 24 inch bags.. I thought about cutting one of those w/the opening large enough for the tip to poke through.. I'm doing a wedding cake and 2 of the layers are going to be red velvet... I hate having crumbs!! So I thought, it's time for me to find out how to use this thing!! And was hoping someone here knew.. I'm going to try it out on the wedding cake if I don't get an order for one sooner
Because of how I handle my spatula when icing, I have to do a crumb coat first with the icer tip, and then I do a regular coat of icing with the tip.
Make you hold the bag with the smooth side up so that you don't get the ridge along the top, make icing a lot easier. (Don't know why the couldn't just make it smooth all the way around to begin with. 
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Also make sure your icing is thin enough (not too thick) otherwise the icing won't stick to the cake.
yeah and if your icing is thick you will go through you icing batch real fast that tip puts out a lot of icing. Which is a good thing when doing a cupake cake!
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