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Beginner Treatmaker Essentials
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items Have you wanted to start your treatmaking or baking business but don’t know where to start? Here are some essentials to help you get started! Follow me @berries_by_mani on Instagram for tips, tricks, and recipes to help you get started and elevate yo...
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Chocolate
Packaging
Decorating
Dipping and Melting Tools
Treat Ingredient Recs
Cake Decorating Tools
Chocolate
If you are just starting out and learning how to dip and decorate treats, these are an easy candy melt to start with. Simple and easy to follow directions on the back of package and they come in a variety of colors.
Shop - Decorations - Candy Melts - Page 1
The next step up after Wilton Candy Melts to elevate the taste of your treats and desserts. Ghirardelli has a richer and more premium taste, melts better, and sets more evenly.
Melting Wafers - Candy Making - Baking & More
As an experienced treatmaker, this is the brand of chocolate I use for my desserts. Quality chocolate brand, easy to melt, easy to work with, amazing taste, and even finish. Colors nicely, or if you have a larger order you can buy the chocolate alrea...
Merckens Cocoa Lite Milk Chocolate Wafers
Packaging
Large variety of boxes to choose from. I started off with a box for a dozen strawberries like the first picture and a variety of sleeve like boxes like the second and third picture.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Boxes
When making chocolate covered strawberries, Cakepops, or dipped oreos, these will help make your display and marketing more appealing. When buying in the store make sure to get the mini ones and not the standard size cupcake liners.
Mini Cupcake Liners
Decorating
Letter molds gives you more variety for decorating your treats. The molds pictured are my personal favorite font and make the letters very easy to make.
Letter Molds For Chocolate
Butterfly molds are a simple and common mold I used starting out. Great for baby shower, girl’s birthday, or Mother’s Day themes.
White Butterfly Silicone Fondant Mold
One of the best oil based food coloring brands on the market. A little does a lot and the pigments deepen over time. I would recommend starting with the primary colors pack and adding a black food coloring to your first order.
Colour Mill | Incredible Edible Colour
My go-to shop for all of my luster dust. Elevates your desserts with a shiny finish in a multitude of colors and shades. Not necessary as a beginner, but if planning to starting with just a gold and silver lust dust will take you far.
Luster Dust
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON PIPING BAGS! This is only if you are specializing in chocolate dipped treats. The same way you can drizzle chocolate and decorate with a piping bag is the same way you can do it by cutting a small slit at the corner of a sa...
Sandwich Bags in Food Storage Bags(1000+)
Dipping and Melting Tools
Best cup to melt chocolate in! Cup is easy to manipulate to help mix chocolate at the bottom of the cup. Easy to clean, microwave and dishwasher safe. Helps to avoid burning chocolate. Honeycomb pattern makes the cup better to grip.
2 Cup Squeeze & Pour Silicone Measuring Cup
I prefer using skewers over toothpicks to have a longer range of holding when dipping treats and also to allow my strawberry to dry standing up rather than laying on parchment paper to avoid the flat bottom look.
Wood Skewers
I wish I discovered these at the beginning, but now you can. These helping to thin out the chocolate in the melting process to avoid overheating, burning, or seizing chocolate. You only need about 1-2 teaspoons per cup of chocolate. Mix in the crysta...
Paramount Crystals
Treat Ingredient Recs
Utz or Snyder’s pretzel rods are the best tasting ones in my opinion. The Utz brand container allows you to take out the amount of pretzels for your order and easily store the remaining for your next order. Out of this container I was able to get at ...
Utz or Snyder’s Pretzel Rods
If you want your dipped Rice Krispies to come out even every time, I would suggest buying the Rice Krispies already made. I personally now make my own, but in my early stages I found buying them to be easier in terms of presentation, dipping, and fla...
Rice Krispie Treats
Cake Decorating Tools
On the more expensive side of the immersion blenders but I found it as a great investment for my business, especially when coloring buttercreams. I like using this method to get deeper mor rich colors over the microwave method.
Hand Immersion Blenders: See All
Available at Walmart, Meijer, & Michael’s as well. I like buying the larger piping bags when decorating cakes to avoid having to constantly refill the buttercream. Some bags come with a star tip or other tip, but I typically just buy the bags by ...
Piping Bags & Tips
One of the first piping tips you’ll need to make borders for your cake designs. Simple tip for making borders, simple cupcake designs, or mini flowers
1M Piping Tip for Cake Decorating, 3 Pcs
Another cake decorating starter tip. Also good for making borders, known as the open star tip, and can elevate your cake designs by adding texture and by mixing the sizes (32, 4b, 6b, & 8b)
Wilton 6b
Third in the beginner line up for piping tips, known as the drop flower tip. This piping tip makes it easy to making buttercream flowers.
Wilton Decorating Piping Tip, No 2D - Drop Flower
The 104 petal tip for the starter pack. This tip can be used to make flowers, waves, or petal designs on your cake. It is also the only tip you will need to make rose cupcakes like mine pictured here.
3 Ways to Use Tip 104