Wilton "cake release" it wasnt cheap but now i dont know how i ever coped without it!

what is everyones favourite piece of equipment, that you absolutley could NOT live without?

Magic Line cake pans.

i agree love my magic line cake pans.

You can make pan grease (cake release) with flour and shortneing...Maybe someone else knows the proportions.

Homemade pan grease/cake release is equal parts shortening, flour and oil.

I love the homemade cake release. I lost my recipe, though. Thanks for the proportions. Works like a charm every time.

My Fat Daddio pans love em

I'm with you- could not live without my Wilton cake release! But there are sooo many other supplies/pieces of equipment I have come to own that I feel equally attached to, like my sugar art gun & silicone mat, just to name a few.

It has to be my kitchen Aid, I use it for everything. I always tell my husband it was the best gift I ever received from him.

ive just discovered baking strips! after year of baking (packet) cakes im now learning scratch baking ive made 3 with the baking strips and all have been high and level - loving them

KA KA KA!!!!! i dont know how I ever made anything before it..... and i would probaly die if mine broke!

My KitchenAid!!! I absolutely LOVE it!!!

My Kitchenaid Artisan. Got it from my mom years ago and had it put away, broke it out a few years back when I started caking. I love it so much, I'm looking into getting another one. One for cakes and one for icings.

Mrs A: im just starting to learn about baking strips, how do they work, how do you use them and where can i get them from? i have always been a scratch baker

My Kitchenaid of course, but also my silicone spatulas from Wilton. They have a straight side and a curved side and they are perfect for scooping icing out of bowls, loading piping bags, etc.

Magic Line pans. I have one Fat Daddio pan and it is absolutely inferior to the Magic Line pans. After that I love my Hobart 20 qt and my Agbay.

By far, my KA. Could not function without it. It was honestly the best gift I ever received.

My KA mixer. I wouldn't be able to do much else as far as decorating a cake if I didn't have the KA to mix batter and buttercream and royal icing and MMF and whipped cream and ganache.......I could keep going, but you get the idea.

If you love your Kitchenaid so much, you would be in complate euphoria with a Hobart. I have the 20qt and it saves me soooooooo much time!

The one tool I panic when I can't find is my fondant smoother!

I couldn't ever be without my KA also, nor my cake-strips. I have found, however, that they are way too short for many of my pans, and I didnt care to hold up on my baking by overlapping them and waiting to use on next pan. I went to the local dollar store and bought a silver teflon oven mitt, cut it in long strips and even though I didnt bother to sew side edges, I still soak them and pin them with the original store-bought strips. Yay! they work, do not burn, and are cheaper than getting another pack of strips. javascript:emoticon('')

Can't live with out my KA.

Dawn Foods makes and awesome non stick spray. I bought a case at a bakery auction and it has went a long way. I still have about 8 cans. Got to figure out how to get it when its gone.

Crisco makes a spray with flour. I was using it before and it always worked like a dream too.

My Agbay !

Thank you ktmarieb, very helpful info.

i am still building up my collection of equipment and dont have a kitchen aid. but they sound amazing and everyone talks about them. i dont know much about what you can do with it or how it works, could anyone explain it or provide a link to somewhere i could buy one/find out information about it? TIA

Thank you ktmarieb, very helpful info.

i am still building up my collection of equipment and dont have a kitchen aid. but they sound amazing and everyone talks about them. i dont know much about what you can do with it or how it works, could anyone explain it or provide a link to somewhere i could buy one/find out information about it? TIA

Thank you ktmarieb, very helpful info.

i am still building up my collection of equipment and dont have a kitchen aid. but they sound amazing and everyone talks about them. i dont know much about what you can do with it or how it works, could anyone explain it or provide a link to somewhere i could buy one/find out information about it? TIA

I just saw the KA 5 qt on QVC today for a really good deal. They even have it on easy pay today!

My KITCHEN AIDE by far!!!! Best gift my hubby ever gave me ( or I picked out for him to buy LOL)
Leah_S Iam so jealous of the hobart 20 qt ( I WANT ONE )[/b]

I'm with everyone else..as far as baking...definitely my KA. But for general cooking, my KA mini chopper, love it!