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Fill Your Piping Bag

Ingredients

•Tipless piping bag

•Royal Icing

•Rubber bands (optional)

•Spatula

Directions

1.Take a cup and insert your tipless piping bag into the cup, folding the edges of the bag over the top. This allows you to have two free hands to fill your bag.

2.Add about one-third of the icing in the bowl to the piping bag.

3.Pick the piping bag up out of the cup, squeeze the icing to the bottom of the bag, and tie it off. Rubber bands can be used if the bag is too full or if you have trouble tying.

Flooding consistency is going to take the most practice out of any skill in this book. Be patient, and don’t be afraid to ditch anything that isn’t working and start over. Flooding icing is a thinned-out version of your piping consistency designed to self-level and create those smoothly iced cookies you’ve been drooling over.

Let’s go! You have a bowl with two-thirds of the icing left in it ready for you.

4.Turn on your faucet to a very slow dribble. You are striving to achieve the texture of soap or honey. Take a moment to flip your bottle of honey upside down for reference. Just like with color, you can always add more water, so start with a very small amount!

5.Keep adding water and mixing until the icing smoothly falls off your spatula and slowly settles by itself. The icing should still be thick, and the process of self-leveling shouldn’t be immediate.