491187 Tue Feb 19 11:15:43 -0800 2008 6 31 Home Cooking 0 3413379 Help! I have to make cupcakes tonight, and the recipe involves squirting cream cheese in with a pastry bag, which I have no time to acquire today. Is there something I can gin up, maybe with saran wrap and rubber bands? Tue Feb 19 11:15:43 -0800 2008 70775 sciencediet 1 3413385 Fill a plastic bag. Snip off a bottom corner w/ scissors. Tue Feb 19 11:17:30 -0800 2008 3413379 10023 Professor Salt 1 3413387 Cut the corner out of a plastic food storage bag. Start with a tiny snip first then snip tiny bits until the hole is the right size. You can also make a triangle out of parchement and fill. Tue Feb 19 11:17:44 -0800 2008 3413379 12606 MeffaBabe 2 3413398 Thank you both. I'd like to think I would have thought of that eventually, but you never know. Tue Feb 19 11:19:09 -0800 2008 3413387 70775 sciencediet 1 3415391 To add a little more detail, use a one-gallon zip-top bag and snip off the corner. Start small with your snipping and do some tests. Snip too much too soon and you don't have a pastry bag -- you have a funnel. Tue Feb 19 20:45:43 -0800 2008 3413379 18802 mudster 1 3415555 If the recipe calls for the cream cheese to be added before baking then you can forego the bag and just fill about 1/2 way then add a dollop of cream cheese in the centre then fill the cups up the rest of the way. If they're to be filled after baking (like a jelly donut for instance) I'm wondering what success you'll have with a ziploc bag since I usually need the metal tip to make the hole... maybe cut down a straw and secure with an elastic. I came late to this post - and I'm curious - have you made the cupcakes? and what did you work up in place of a pastry bag? Tue Feb 19 22:06:20 -0800 2008 3413379 138472 maplesugar 1 3419734 F.Y.I. ............................................ http://www.fantes.com/parchment_triangles.htm http://www.baking911.com/decorating/pb_prchmtcones_pg2.htm Thu Feb 21 04:59:34 -0800 2008 3413379 65993 Lisbet