How To.....make your own piping bag

This is a neat little trick I learnt recently from my college tutor which has proved so useful I wanted to share it with you all.  There are loads of different types of piping bags out there, different sizes, re-usable, disposable etc.  Up until now I used the re-usable ones but they're an absolute nightmare to get clean and if you're piping lots of different colous of icing it can be a right faff cleaning them between each colour.

But with this handy trick you can make your own piping bags, whatever size you like and all you need is a square of greaseproof paper and some scissors.

Fold the square in half to make a triangle and cut in half so you have a single sheet of greaseproof paper in a triangle shape.

Ensure you have the long flat edge of the triangle at the top as in the picture then fold down each of the top corners to the bottom corner until you have a diamond shape.

Now here's the tricky bit.  Overlap the two corners you've just brought to the bottom corner of the triangle, pull them over each other and move them round to start to shape the paper into a cone.  The aim of this is to have the tip of the cone at the top of the diamond and the wider part of the cone at the bottom of the diamond.

Pull the paper so it overlaps itself, doubles up around the cone and the edges meet.

Then fold the top over to secure the shape.

Then just fill the cone with icing, fold over the top so it doesn't escape and snip the tip dependent on how thick you want your icing to be or how wide your nozzle is.  Easy peasy!