Hi,
Someone posted the following as a favorite tip.

"1. Wrapping the icing in plastic wrap before putting into the decorating bags."

how do you do this????? Is this to keep the bag clean?how do you wrap icing in plastic wrap? Put it in a ziplock bag???

confused~

Hi heystopthatnow. I actually have copied the article off and saved it on my computer. This is what you do.
Cut a piece of glad wrap about 9" long and lay flat then put your icing near the bottom but no too near the edge and just over halfway. Pick up one side of the glad wrap and line it up with the other side. You will now have the icing enclosed with the icing at the fold. Now carefully roll into a sausage until you get to the end of the glad wrap. Knot the top of the sausage and this prevents the icing oozing out the top. Pick up the sausage and insert into your bag and you are ready to go. I have done this twice and it works perfectly. Someone may be able to tell you where to get the article as it has pictures.

Hi heystopthatnow
This is where I found it with the pictures (sorry don't know how to post link)
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-38404-plastic.html+wrap+method

If you can find that perhaps search "Great tip from my instructor" as that is the heading.

Briarview you accomplished what I was trying to figure out. I am a total computer dummy How did you do it may I ask???

Thank you so much Briarview!

Your welcome.

Hi kaychristensen, I just do a search with the particular words and scroll through until I find it. It took a couple of pages but I did find it. Cheers

Sorry I should have said click "Articles" and then type the words in the little box.

That is one of my all-time favorite tips! I always do it and, yes, it does keep the bag much cleaner. You can use the bag over and over. Just pull out the squished plastic wrap and start over. No more frosting flaking off the edges of the bag while you refill it with icing.

You don't need to cut plastic wrap just use a plastic bag, it has the same effect. you can then tie a loose knot in the top incase you need to refill the bag.

good tip

Thanks for the link with the pictures. I couldn't understand how you did it so that helped so much. Can't wait to try this!!

Plastic bags here in Australia you can get them for free in the supermarkets with vegies

I just learned this trick this week and it is great. I can't believe that 10 years of cake decorating and I never knew this!!