pastry tube

noun

1. a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel pastrybag, for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.

Example Sentences

Carlson has re-created her 1981 installation “Tough Shift for M.I.T.” by once more taking up a pastry tube to squeeze regularly spaced, unusually tactile little flowers across the walls of a gallery here.

From New York Times

The Foodini extrudes prepared ingredients, squeezing dough into perfect breadsticks or squirting vegetable paste into cute dinosaur shapes; Russin called it a “glorified pastry tube operating on an X-Y axis.”

From The New Yorker

She applied the mural’s myriad dots herself, “following the painter with a pastry tube. Some were applied so thickly they’re still soft.”

From Architectural Digest

This can be forced through a pastry tube, or, through a cornucopia, made from ordinary white letter paper.

From Project Gutenberg

Put a border of mashed potato mixed with the beaten white of egg around the fish, using a pastry tube and forcing bag.

From Project Gutenberg