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Baking Essentials 🍰 Tools and tips I actually use and swear by… to be baking baddie
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items I over-research baking equipment so you don’t have to 😂
🍰 Baking my way through cakes, cookies and everything in between. I love trying new recipes, learning as I go and finding the little tools and tricks that make baking easier. Everything here ...
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When I get my fancy Kenwood I won’t need this as that’s built in!
Digital scales are a really important one for baking . Accuracy makes such a difference!
One tip I swear by is weighing your cake mixture when you split it between tins. It means y...
Kitchen Scales | Digital Food Scales
You can never have just one!!! Somehow baking always involves one bowl for the dry ingredients, another for the wet, another for icing… and suddenly every bowl you own is in use 😂 A good set of different-sized mixing bowls makes everything so much e...
Kitchen Bowls, Mixing Bowls & Bowl Sets
One I learnt at a baking class is that stainless steel mixing bowls are brilliant to have in your baking cupboard! They’re lightweight, sturdy and, unlike plastic, don’t hold onto grease, which is especially important when you’re whipping egg whites ...
Vogue Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl 4.8Ltr - GC138
I bought a green Silicone spatula from Dunelm and love it. You can use it for scraping bowls/folding mixtures without knocking out loads of air.
Silicone Spatula
A palette knife is such a simple little tool, but it instantly makes cake decorating SO much easier! Perfect for spreading buttercream, smoothing fillings and getting right to the edges without dragging crumbs everywhere.
My top tip: use a little bl...
Stainless Steel Large Palette Knife
Tiny, cheap and does exactly what it needs to do! A cake tester takes the guesswork out of wondering whether the middle of your cake is actually baked,..,because nobody wants to discover a raw centre after turning it out 😂
My top tip: test right i...
Cake Tester Skewer
A cooling rack is not the most glamorous bit of baking kit, but don’t skip it! A cooling rack lets air circulate underneath your cake, so you don’t end up with a soggy bottom from all that trapped steam.
My top tip is leave your cake in the tin for ...
Tala Non Stick Cake Cooling Tray
An oven thermometer is not the most glamorous bit of baking kit, but I’ve found it super helpful.
One of those little baking buys that can explain SO much 😆 Your oven might sayyyy it’s 180°C, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s actually 180°C. A...
Tala Oven Thermometer
Really helpful! One of those inexpensive baking tools you don’t think you need until you have one. It’s brilliant for bread, caramel, chocolate, curds (esp my lemon curd!) custards and checking dough/liquid temperatures.
Babacom Digital Meat Thermometer Dual Probes
Okay I haven’t bought this yet but waiting for an offer!
Kenwood mixers are so good much better than kitchenaid in my opinion. This one is fantastic as it’s also got a heating element to melt chocolate, warm butter etc!
Kenwood Chef Patissier XL Kitchen Machine & Mixer (1)
😆 particularly good while you’re still deciding whether the Kenwood upgrade is worth it.
Hand Mixers
One of my boring-but-IMPORTANT baking buys 😂
I always use light-coloured aluminium cake tins like these PME ones. Dark tins absorb more heat, so the outside of your cake can cook and brown faster which can mean adjusting the temperature or baking t...
PME Baking Tins
Love these heart ones!! They are a lovely and popular shape without being too fiddly!!
PME Anodised Aluminium Heart Cake Pan 10x3"
Why did I spend so long decorating cakes WITHOUT one of these?! 😂
A turntable makes icing a cake SO much easier. Instead of trying to manoeuvre yourself around the cake, you just spin it as you smooth the buttercream. It’s much easier to get neat, ...
Cake Icing Turntable 28cm/ 11
Such a simple bit of kit but it makes SUCH a difference!
I actually got my scraper free when I did a Bread Ahead baking course, and now I use it whenever I’m trying to get lovely smooth, straight sides on a buttercream cake.
You definitely don’t ne...
Which Cake Scraper Is Best?