Great Tip From My Instructor!
Decorating By newlywedws Updated 28 Sep 2014 , 10:24am by AnAngelsKiss
Thanks newlywedws for bringing that thread up again, it's probably the best tip I learned from CC and should be a mainstay on this site. I keep it in my favorites for reference so I can mention & link it whenever I possible, and make sure I give you credit. Like everyone else says-we have read the tip but never understood it. By taking the time to photograph every step for us, we finally get it & it's saved literaly hundreds of hours for me, so thanks very much for taking the time for us.
I use this method a lot-if I have extra icing and don't want to waste it, I pop it in a plastic wrap & freeze it. I also use it on my color the icing day-I spend one day making & coloring buttercream so I will have an array of colors for decorating. I freeze them by color & date them. It's worked out really well for me, I've never had to stop decorating because I didn't have a specific color on hand. It's even saved me with plain white bc-I needed to fix something and didn't have one drop left so I grabbed one from the freezer and finished up-thankfully it was a good color match.
Kudos to you newlywedws for sharing this phenomenal tip, it's worth it's weight in gold.
The freezing thing sounds like something I should start doing! With a 14month old and a three year old that sounds like a tip that will save me some time! I do have a question, Antylucifer, about defrosting the icing. How do you defrost it? Does the bc still pipes well without remixing the icing? I have never frozen bc and I'm not sure what works and what doesnt. Thanks!
Love this idea..can't wait to try it!!! I love CC!! 
I tried the icing plug technique last night with roses. Did two colors at one time, and it worked great. I just have to learn not to overfill the plugs (what an awful term). I could even try a tri-colored rose.
Anne
I love the idea, but like AnneZA, I wish it had a nicer name. Maybe we could ask all you creative people out there to come up with a more pleasant name. Anyone up for a challenge?
My suggestion is cartridge , such as an ink cartridge for a printer, or for a fountain pen. Each holds color in a container, to insert into a holder/tool/machine, which will then be used to apply it to a surface. It seems quite appropriate to me.
Frosting Cartridge...What do you think?
Once you put the 'plug' in the bag..doesn't the coupler get all covered in icing? Then when you put in the next color wouldn't the colors get mixed? I can see just changing over the tips, but what about the coupler..please clarify.
i guess i'm just having a hard time understanding. I know the bag would be much cleaner but what about the other parts?
suz
I used this idea for the first time this weekend. I did some cupcakes for a friend's birthday party, and needed to ice them with three different flavors of icing.
I bagged the icings in Ziploc bags. When it was time to frost them, I snipped a corner off and slipped it into the piping bag. The Ziploc bag made things a bit bulkier than I had anticipated, but the end result was perfect - It was great to only need to take 1 bag, 1 tip, and 1 coupler with me.
Thanks again for sharing this, newlywedws!
Theresa 
Thanks!! newlywedsws!! I can't wait to try this and all the other tips on here as well. cakesbylj called them "bullets", I think I will too. Maybe Jackie could start a thread with JUST TIPS for cake decorating in all mediums. And I use bc made with water because I feel it's better on non-refrigerated cakes. So far, no one has complained. I love when people taste my cakes and then close their eyes and from deep within them you here it coming; that deep sigh with "Ummmm." I just love that!! That is why I do cakes! It touches us on a deep level, sugar does.
This is way too cool. Thank you for sharing.
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