How to make a piping cone

Making a piping cone can be a fiddly business.

If you aren't piping a complicated design, you can always just fill a plastic sandwich bag with icing and cut off the tip.

However, if you are attempting delicate piping work, a parchment cone is your best bet.

1. Cut a triangle out of parchment.

2. You're aiming for the the tip of the bag to be in the middle of the long side.

3. Fold the corners up (short one first, then long).

4. Gather the cone up in your hand and using your thumb and forefinger and roll the paper around until the tip of the bag is closed.

5. Finally, tuck the ends into the cone.

6. When your icing (or chocolate) is ready, only fill the cone about two thirds full.

7. When you close the bag, fold over the top of the cone and then fold away from the seam.

8. Sometimes it is easier to just make a new cone than to try and fill a sticky, used piping cone again.

Alternatively, this video from Wilton shows a live action version, which is probably easier to follow.