Thanks for the tip. Will make doing FBCT's much easier now also!

Okay this is definitely one of the reasons why I love CC and all of you. These are amazing tips and I can't wait to try them out this weekend. Thank you thank you!!!!!!

I will try this for now on, thank you so much for the info/tip.

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!!

Great! I have to try it.

What an awesome tip!!! I had heard someone refer to "icing plugs" before, but didn't know to what they were referring!!

Thanks!!

I can't wait to try this!!!

I have always used a new disposable decorating bag each time. WOW. I'm really excited to use this new trick. I almost walked away from the comptuer this morning feeling guilty for spending too much time. I am SO glad I clicked open this tip.
thanks

Wow... thanks to newlywedws & Antylucifer for sharing the great tips!

The icing plugs will save a lot of clean up time and I really like the idea of "icing" day and placing them in the freezer.

Great tip, thank you. I hate cleaning bags.

Thank-you for the tip. This will help with clean up and to prevent the icing from getting over my hands. My least favorite thing WAS cleaning the bags. Ican't wait to try your tip.

Thank you for posting this. Goodness--I can't wait to try it.4

Thank you newlywedws. this will save me time & $$$.

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

Thanks for sharing this tip. I'm going to make a cake tonight just so I can try it.

The pictures really help

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 such a great idea! thanks!

This also works great by using a regular sandwich bag. I just put icing in tie a knot and cut off a small corner. easy to take out and add different colors.

This is way too cool. Thank you for sharing.

this is great! I work at the DQ and i tried this today at work!!! OMG!!!! I love it, it works great! Thanks again!

Oh thank you for posting this...my instructor told us about this, but I totally forgot. The pictures are wonderful way to help us newbies out!!! I can't wait to try it.

Great, I have never heard of such a good idea! Thx for sharing!

Greetings from Switzerland! bashiba

THIS IS AMAZING TO ME ... I WILL DEFINETLY BE USING THIS TIP IN THE FUTURE ... I HATE CLEANING OUT THE FROSTING FROM THE BAGS ... THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES FOR SHARING !

Newlyweds, Thank you so much for the icing tip. Seeing it made it soo easy to understand. Will try it out my next cake!