I’m going to show you the basics of pastry bags and pastry cones. These are used to decorate cakes and cupcakes. To start I’ll show you how to make a pastry cone. You can make them out of cellophane, wax paper and parchment paper. I’ll show you how to make then out of parchment paper.

To start, roll your parchment paper out, you want to get a perfect square. We’re going to cut the square in half to make a triangle. One trick is to fold this edge to the top edge and the crease it, and the cut along this line. Then open it up, and your going to use that crease as a guide line to cut your triangle out.

Now it’s time to form the cone. I have one over here. I’ve drawn a line right in the middle of the longest side of the triangle and that’s where my point is going to form. To do this, take one corner and roll it in on itself so that the corner lines up down here. Wrap the other side aroud to the back. You’ll see that the two sides line up right down the middle.

Now you want tape to wrap it around the tip. This will prevent the bag from opening while your squeezing it. So there is your pastry cone. To fill it, hold it in your hand, take a spatula, put some frosting on it, place it slowly into the bag, then pinch your fingers down on it and slide the spatula out.

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