How To Use Decorating Esentials Kit

Check out our simple guide to what essential cake utensils and cake décor tools you lot should accept in your cake kit!

While a lot of bones modelling can be done by hand and with very few tools, you lot'll nearly ofttimes find that having a staple selection of block decorating equipment to hand will keep your cakes professional every time.

We've gone ahead and put together the ideal collection of cake utensils every cake decorator should have to hand. Think of this as your cake decorating kit for beginners!

The harder the tutorial the lengthier the equipment list will exist, so don't exist disheartened if you lot find you don't always have everything a tutorial asks for. The below equipment will meet you through most projects. You can savor working out what extras from your baking and kitchen kit you lot tin use for niggling details, such as cut outs and embossing. If there's one affair we dearest hither at Cake Decorating & Sugarcraft magazine, it's having tools that can be used for loads of different things!

Your essential cake decorating equipment

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Modelling tools

Annotated cake modelling tools

Scallop and rummage
Apply to create features such every bit grinning or frowning mouths, eyebrows, ears and more with the scallop end. You will also find this useful for making round holes and scalloped edges. The comb terminate is perfect for marking and embossing a serrated blueprint or design e.k a stitched effect.

Brawl tool
Two sizes of ball ends for making indentations and hollowing out in modelling or for running along edges of petals and ruffles.

Grooved cone
Similar to the serrated and taper cone tool, the grooved cone has tapered edges to help create authentic and realistic petals. The elongated points of this tool mean y'all tin create longer and more fragile shapes.

Serrated and taper cone
Use to emboss star patterns and to mark divisions in sugarpaste. The serrated cone creates detailed and realistic throats when making a diversity of flowers. Star taper cones may be used as a simple star embosser and for creating the center of five or half dozen petal flowers or simply used as petal dividers.

Bract and shell
Use the blade as expected, for cut and shaping marzipan and sugarpaste and the shell end for embossing patterns onto icing.

Flower & leaf shaper
Also known as a Dresden tool, this is ane of the virtually useful pieces of cake decorating equipment you tin notice. You lot tin use the back of the tool to polish sugarpaste. The pointed end is ideal for creating realistic and detailed veining on sugarpaste leaves.

Bulbous cone
A very useful double ended modelling tool. The narrow cease is used like a bone tool and the bulbous end is a rolling tool used for thinning Garrett frills, edges of petals, leaves and more. Both ends are platonic for creating features on models.

Os tool
Curved with two balls of differing sizes, one at either end of the tool, utilise for blossom modelling, running around the edges of petals to thin them out and making round indentations in modelling.

General equipment

Not-stick rolling pivot & board

rolling pin and board Perfect for rolling sugarpaste, flower paste, marzipan etc. A must take for any cake kit!

Spatula

A spatula is essential for neatly icing a cake with most any type of frosting. If you have a few of these in different sizes so even better! Offset block icing spatulas mean you can ice and frost hard to reach areas while keeping your hands and fingers away from the icing.

Nozzles

Cake icing nozzles

We probably don't need to explain these to you! Icing nozzles are available in a variety of shapes and sizes meaning yous can ice your cakes and cupcakes with all sorts of gorgeous designs.

Shaped cutters

Cookie cutter

These little pieces of equipment are ideal for a number of different cake decorating adventures, from teeny-tiny stars to gorgeous large-shaped hearts. Perfect for cookies and sugarpaste alike, cutters are always extremely useful to have at hand.

Tweezers

Cake decorating tweezers

Ideal if you're looking to place delicate edibles onto a masterpiece without dissentious either the main block or the embellishment. From tiny pearls to dainty stamens, cake decorating tweezers are unremarkably curved to assist you place small-scale embellishments accurately anywhere on your block!

Silicone brushes

Siliconr brushes

Well-nigh of us in the cake decorating business know that, if it can exist made of silicone, it should be. Super easy to make clean and preventing the build upwards of germs and old food on your utensils, it'southward always better to go silicone where you tin can. Specially with brushes, as when used for cake decorating, it generally involves lots of gummy liquids that Dearest to cling to utensils and build upward germs!

Silicone moulds

Similar to the silicone brushes, silicone moulds are an essential detail for any cake decorator'south kitchen. Whether you lot're working with fondant, cake or fifty-fifty marzipan, a skilful selection of moulds is essential. If you're non quite sure on how to utilise your moulds, we've got you covered! Be sure to check out our article on How To Use Fondant Moulds.

If you follow the above guide to a solid cake decorating kit for beginners, you should be totally covered when information technology comes to block decorating equipment. At present don't worry, nosotros at Block Decoration & Sugarcraft know that none of the states are made of coin, so many of the cake décor tools we've listed can be used for a whole host of other things in your kitchen.

Silicone brushes are ideal for egg washing, for case, and the shell function of a blade and beat out tool makes a great back scratcher! (we're kidding, of course!).

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