1.   After mixing the batter and filling the pastry bag, you should let the batter rest for a few hours.

2.   Cut a small piece off one corner of the bag, and squeeze it like a pastry bag, piping the deviled yolks into the cavities of the whites.

3.   Fill pastry bag fitted with large star tip with meringue.

4.   Fill a fluted pastry bag with the mixture and pipe into egg halves.

5.   Fill a pastry bag with icing and, with a zigzag tip, pipe over paths.

6.   Holding her breath with each careful stroke, she uses a pastry bag to apply thin lines of tan buttercream on each side.

7.   If a pastry bag is not available, simply spoon the potatoes into mounds.

8.   If you wish, put some icing in a pastry bag fitted with a tip of your choice and pipe a border around the perimeter of the cake.

9.   Lebovitz avoided recipes requiring things no one wants to do at home, like tempering chocolate, spinning sugar or decorating with several pastry bags.

10.   Make the top and bottom portion of spider body with the pastry bag.