Icing Technique Tutorial: Multiple Colors in One Piping Bag

Have you ever wondered HOW they got multiple colors of icing to come out at once and look so pretty?  

Let me show you a NEW way to do it that is mess free and super easy!

The OLD way is messy.  You basically take a piping bag and using a knife or a thin spatula apply stripes of colored icing inside the bag, filling in the bag with either white icing or another color.  You can also paint the actual gel food coloring in stripes inside of the piping bag as well before adding a base color of icing.  The NEW way is so simple and much less messy!

http://www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com/techniques/bagstriping.cfm

The photo above shows the striping technique where you paint in the gel colors.  Follow the link in the picture caption for full instructions on this technique.

http://the-best-recipes-of-cupcakes.blogspot.com/2014/10/cotton-candy-cupcakes-for-elizabeth.html

The photo above shows the striping technique where you fill in the actual icing colors in stripes inside of the bag.  Follow the link in the caption for the instructions on this technique.

To do this NEW method, take a piece of plastic wrap and lay it out flat on your work surface.  With a spatula, roughly lay out stripes of icing side by side.  See photo below...

Next, grasp the plastic wrap and roll the icing into a sausage shape, twisting the ends of the wrap.  See photo below...

Cut the twisted end off of the "icing sausage" and drop it down into a piping bag fitted with a decorating tip, and you are ready to go.  You may need to squeeze out a little icing before it actually starts coming out in multiple colors.

Cleanup of the icing bag is easy because all of the icing was actually encased in plastic wrap.  You should be able to reuse the piping bag!

Below are some two-toned roses I made using the striping technique from the second picture where I striped the bag with icing in blue and then filled it with white:

So easy!  Now mess free!!!  A great use for plastic wrap!