A New Cleaning Tip...

Anyone who knows me KNOWS that I'm no Suzy-homemaker. My house is often in disarray and always has been. (I'm striving to clean, purge, and re-organize. Really, I am!) But for once...I'm proud to say that I have a cleaning tip! And one that I came up with!

I made another cake for a family dinner this past weekend...  Sorry...I couldn't resist posting an image of my finished product.  It's not what I wanted it to look like...but I'm proud nonetheless.

If you've ever done cake decorating you've used piping bags and various tips and possibly couplers.  The tips are kind of a pain to clean and the piping bags can be a pain to dry.  Herein lies my tip...

Many moms -- whether breast or formula feeding -- use bottles and have a bottle brush like this...

I found in cleaning my decorating tips that the "nipple cleaning" end of the bottle brush works GREAT for getting the frosting out of the tip.  Like this..

If you have one of those dishwasher baskets for nipples that would work well too...I just don't happen to have one.

Now I started drying my pastry bags like this back when I was taking my cake decorating class.  It works great and I figured I'd share...  What you use depends on the size of the bag.  This time I took an empty 2 liter pop bottle and an empty pop can and opened up my cleaned bags on top of them like this...

I've also used various cups and a travel mug and 20 oz bottles.  They all work great and the bags dry really well.