Most people I know love decorating cookies and cupcakes and love eating them that way. But no one likes making all the frosting, getting out all the piping bags and tips, and the mess involved. For several years now (as you can see in a previous post) I have only used freezer ziplock bags with the edge snipped to pipe icing. That way you can throw it all away, but it does limit your designs significantly. My aunt Kelli is a cupcake fanatic and hers always look so beautiful, but she uses a wilton 2D tip, which to me means, messing piping bags or specialty parchment paper ones that are not found at any of my local stores-- but yesterday I thought I would try using the 2D tip in a freezer ziplock and . . . it worked fabulously. I was a little worried it would leak due to the 90 degree angle of the bag and the 30 degree angle of the tip, but the freezer bag held up nicely. It was so easy and mess free. I just spooned one store bought tub of icing into the ziplock where the tip was waiting in the corner. I clipped the corner of the bag just enough to let the tip slide slightly into the hole. It worked like a charm. If ziplock really wanted my life to be easy they would make triangle shaped ziplock freezer bags.
Most people I know love decorating cookies and cupcakes and love eating them that way. But no one likes making all the frosting, getting out all the piping bags and tips, and the mess involved. For several years now (as you can see in a previous post) I have only used freezer ziplock bags with the edge snipped to pipe icing. That way you can throw it all away, but it does limit your designs significantly. My aunt Kelli is a cupcake fanatic and hers always look so beautiful, but she uses a wilton 2D tip, which to me means, messing piping bags or specialty parchment paper ones that are not found at any of my local stores-- but yesterday I thought I would try using the 2D tip in a freezer ziplock and . . . it worked fabulously. I was a little worried it would leak due to the 90 degree angle of the bag and the 30 degree angle of the tip, but the freezer bag held up nicely. It was so easy and mess free. I just spooned one store bought tub of icing into the ziplock where the tip was waiting in the corner. I clipped the corner of the bag just enough to let the tip slide slightly into the hole. It worked like a charm. If ziplock really wanted my life to be easy they would make triangle shaped ziplock freezer bags. 
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Fanatic? The teachers at Kevins school call me the cupcake diva. I like that better. hehe. You have to admit, cupcakes make you smile. They make your children smile, they are fun. Way more fun that a square piece of cake on a plate. I think I remember a post about feeding your children ice cream for breakfast. What about cupcakes if they sleep all night? hehe Love the idea. You know ziplock will come out with one in a year or two and you will wish you had all that money they made. Thats the way it always happens around this house
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