Meringues, cream-decorated cakes and cupcakes - all this is almost impossible to do without using pastry bags. Desserts should provide not only taste, but also aesthetic pleasure, so any housewife who loves the oven, is simply obliged to have such a device in the kitchen.
The choice is huge: you can buy a pastry bag with nozzles or regular, there are disposable and reusable options, and you can also make it yourself, because it is very simple. However, desserts decorated with a homemade bag, of course, will not look as presentable as decorated with a special purchase, and even with a set of nozzles, thanks to which you can vary the decorations in accordance with your own taste and create very original patterns.
At present, you can find a lot of instructions with photos detailing how to make a pastry bag yourself, because it really is not so difficult. All you need to do is, for example, roll a bag of thick paper or take a bag, fill it with cream for decoration, and then cut off the corner through which the contents are squeezed out for dessert.
You can try not only to cut the corner, but to do it figuratively - cut the crown, for example. True, with regard to packages, it is unlikely that something will come out, but with paper, if it is really tight and keeps its shape, it can work out. Of course, desserts, for the decoration of which homemade pastry bags were used, will be inferior to muffins and pies, for the decoration of which professional tools were used. However, this is a great way out if the hostess didn’t have the necessary equipment due to the fact that she almost never bakes.
Special confectionery bags or syringes, as a rule, have a set of curly nozzles that allow you to vary the thickness and shape of the extruded contents.
There are both reusable and one-time options, which practically do not differ in functionality. Reusable ones are made of cotton with a coating of
synthetic fibers, and disposable ones are made of polyethylene and paper.
They have one significant advantage - they do not need to be washed, but this also has a drawback - their “disposability” contributes to environmental pollution, which is quite important for some people.
Of course, pastry bags are mainly in demand among professionals who use these tools in their work, but any housewife can buy such a device in her kitchen if she is fond of making cakes and decorating baking. It is possible that a syringe or bag will not be used too often, but still you should not neglect this extremely useful tool, especially since its price is relatively low. But it is so nice to bake something in a fit of inspiration and decorate it with an interesting and original pattern! Such an impromptu, no doubt, will please not only the hostess herself, but also her relatives.