When baking a pie or cake, we think about how to decorate it better. You can simply pour it with glaze, or you can decorate it with painted flowers, patterns and petals. To create intricate patterns of cream or paste, you need a pastry bag.
But what to do if there is no such bag at hand, and you need to decorate the cakes with cream or make rosettes from the dough for cookies right now. Do not despair, you can make a pastry bag with your own hands from improvised materials.
Do-it-yourself pastry bag made of plastic bottle and plastic bag
In order to make carved patterns from cream, it is necessary that the mass be squeezed out of the bag with a carved tip. It must be solid and withstand any pressure exerted on it, otherwise the pattern will not work. For these purposes, a plastic bottle is used.
You will need the following materials: a plastic bottle, a small clean plastic bag, a marker, scissors and a stationery knife.
Stage 1
Measure from the top of the bottle 4-5 cm. And put a mark. Make several marks and connect them with one line. Next, cut the neck along the intended strip using scissors. For work, you only need the neck of the bottle, so the rest of it can be thrown into the garbage bin.
Stage 2
Unscrew the cork and remove from it the inner silicone layer that is in each lid.
Stage 3
Make a hole in the lid with a diameter of approximately 0.5-0.7 mm.
Stage 4
On the silicone layer that you took out of the lid with a marker in the center, draw a pattern that you would like to get. Use a stationery knife to cut a pattern along the contour. Do not hold back your fantasies, because from what you make a cutout, such a pattern will turn out.
Stage 5
Insert the silicone layer back into the cover. Wash the neck and stopper of the bottle again from plastic chips and dust.
Stage 6
Cut one corner of the bag by 2 cm, put it on the thread and screw the lid so that the bag is reinforced between the lid and the thread of the neck of the bottle. If you fix the bag poorly, the bottle will not hold and it will not work with such a bag.
There is another option, how else can you fasten the package and the neck of the bottle. Insert the package into it. Pass the cut corner of the bag into the neck by inserting it from the side of the cut part and remove it from the neck. Wrap the edges of the bag on the threads and tighten the lid.
In other words, the neck of the bag will be put on the cut corner of the bag, and the edges of the cut corner of the bag will be turned out and fixed with a screw cap. So, you got a pastry bag with your own hands. Cream for cake or cookie dough is placed in a bag, and it will be squeezed out through the lid, acquiring the shape of the pattern that you invented and cut out.
You can make several interchangeable covers with a different pattern inside. The bag containing the mass is disposable and discarded immediately after use. Next time you need a new bag.
Using the same method, you can use a bottle with an elongated cap for easy drinking.
It can be used as a kind of pattern, dressing on the same neck if the thread matches.
Also, the hole in the bottle cap can be made wider up to 1.5 cm in diameter, while the pattern on the silicone layer can be made larger and more complex.
Do-it-yourself pastry bag made of paper
For this type of pastry bag you will need a sheet of strong waterproof paper and scissors. A sheet of parchment baking paper is perfect.
Stage 1
Make an even square out of the sheet and fold it in half obliquely or from corner to corner.
Stage 2
Lay the resulting triangle so that it is looking at a right angle upwards, and the curled part is towards you. Two sharp corners are located on the sides.
Stage 3
Now collapse it with a funnel. The image below shows how to collapse properly.
Stage 4
The upper edges can interfere with work with confectionery products, so they are bent or cut.
After filling the package with contents, the edges (if you have not cut them) can be wrapped inwards or twisted in a spiral. In the second option, squeezing the contents of the package will be much more convenient.
Stage 5
Cut the folded corner obliquely or give it a beautiful pattern in the form of an asterisk or wave.
Do-it-yourself pastry bag ready. It is disposable, therefore, at the end of work, it is thrown into the trash can.
Such a bag made of paper is perfect in work with a delicate texture of cream or paste. For thick dough, use a pastry bag made of harder material.
Do-it-yourself pastry bag from a plastic bag
In order to make such a bag, you need a dense plastic bag. By density, cellophane is quite suitable, from which a sleeve is made for baking products in the oven or a file for documents.
Option 1
The cellophane cloth is folded with a funnel, as in the previous version of a pastry paper bag. An acute angle is cut off in the form of a pattern or a semicircular hole.
Option 2
You can also use it in a package in which the cream is placed, and then curls up with a funnel. In this case, the resulting sharp angle is carefully cut with scissors, through which the contents will be extruded onto the prepared surface.
Do-it-yourself pastry bag from a fragment of a used aluminum can
As materials for this type of confectionery bag you will need: used aluminum can from under the drink, a strong plastic bag and adhesive tape.
Stage 1
Wash the aluminum can from the rest of the drink and dust and cut in parts. Cut the upper and lower parts from it, leaving the middle in the form of a ring from the walls of the can. Cut the ring along. Thus, you have a metal sheet of thin aluminum.
Stage 2
Fold a metal sheet with a funnel and secure the outer edge with tape.
Stage 3
Cut the narrow edge of the funnel with cloves in the shape of an asterisk or other pattern as desired.
Stage 4
Cut the corner of the plastic bag with scissors. Regarding the angle, the cutout should not rise higher than 2 cm.
Stage 5
Insert the metal nozzle into the bag so that it locks and does not pull out through this hole.
A do-it-yourself pastry bag from a fragment of an aluminum can is ready. You can fill it with dough or cream and get to work.
