HELLLLLLO CAKE PEOPLE



I'm looking to find out about the Tool you couldn't live without. The one that has been by your side through the good and the bad..... Or the one that has helped you do those fancy tricks that you are known for..... The tool that you would recommend to everyone because they just couldn't do cake decorating without it..... The strange obscure tool that others may not know about.

Just a newbie trying to swim through all the frosting to get to the other side.

Thanks and have a happy day

Floss...I use it to level my cakes and tort them. I seem to have better luck using it than a leveler.
Yep just waxed floss is my most favorite tool.

There are several tools that I love but my most favorite is my small angled spatular with the wooden handle.

I think the most unique one that i have heard of is the wall paper smoother (wider one).

You lightly mist the top of your sheet cake (with water) hold the smother at a 45 degree angle and lightly drag across cake . Then turn cake and go the other way across..... It gives a nice flat smooth top.

Hmmm, I have so many I love. Well definitely my Silicone pad to roll out fondant, pie crust and cookie dough, it is awesome. I used the lame plastic guide Wilton has in class to roll out fondant, it doesn't even compare to my silpat.

I also love my rolling pin, which is out of my kids block set. Just a round long block, about the same diameter as the wilton ones for fondant.

Lastly, my Viva papertowels, couldn't live without them. Nothing works better to smooth a cake for me!

My fav is a pair of tweezers that are very long and have ridges on the end. They are great for putting little pearls on things and pushing down little hidden areas on fondant bows/flowers after they are on the cake. My fingers always leave a mark. I got them in a medical supply store for 15 dollars and they go right into the dishwasher too!

I am boring! The first thing that comes to mind is my Kitchenaid! Guess I could have mixed all those thousand+ cakes over the last 15 years without it; but I can't imagine. Can't imagine having to use a hand-mixer to make buttercream either. Best present I ever got! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Then I'd say toothpick! I am lost when doing a cake and realize I've run out of toothpicks!

Large angled spatula...yep. Would hate to try to ice the top of my cake with the flat, flimsy one I have.

Pitcher, hot, hot water and a paper towel? For getting my icing smooth.

Tips 3, 16, 104, 21, 32. I know their numbers by heart. I have many tips; these are the workers around here.

kitchen Aid for sure and the extra bowls and beaters that I was fortunate enough to be gifted to me. Fearlessbaker

Kitchen Aid and when I first got married i had one and used my portable because it was easier to get out than to lift the KA. We didn't have room for it to sit out. Boy was that dumb! Oh well I know better now many years later and a couple KA's later.

Straight and angled spatula and stainless steel mini mixing bowls for colors.

Long serrated knife to level the cakes when still in the pans.

speaking of tools.....OMG went to town today and there it was.... a brand new store with allll kinds of gadgets and stuff (even the ka pro.. omg) and all kinds of goodies, and, and, and......woohoo i done hhit the motherlode. It's a kitchen gadget store. hubby at first wasn't impressed cause he thought they would have all kinds of furniture stuff but it's all untinsels and such and ummmmm espresso machines and ka and krups mixers and i could go on and on and on omg. they have all kinds of wiltom pans and they even carry the wedding cake pillar sets and all that stuff too.

sorry,
and i thought wallymart was the only rodeo in town....sheesh

I'm a newbie, BUT I have noticed I use the long angled spatula alot-to ice and load up the bags to decorate. LOL!

Oh and the other best I love is the couplers. I love the idea of changing tips easily and fast.

Another of course if my KitchenAid mixer. I just got it about 3 wks ago and I love it!

10 in edge trimmer to smoothen the icing on my cakes. You can buy them in a paint store I'v been using one for about 8 years once you get the hang of it you get nice smooth cakes. Couldn't go without it.

One of my favorite gadgets is an empty pringle portatoe chip can. Perfet size to drop your deorating bag into for refilling. Bag folds down the side, fill her up, like a second set of hands

My kitchenaid mixer and my Wilton levelers - I love them both.

in the bakery we have a dewalt power drill that has a mixing attachment similar to what you would use to mix dty wall mud with and I can mix a 5 gallon bucket of icing at a time. only cost about $300. versus a huge mixer costing $6000. doesn't take up as much room and I can take it with me places.

I would have to say my Viva towels

when folks ask me how I get the cakes so smooth I tell em I lick them into submission!! LOL!!!

My bench scraper.. I can't get my icing smooth without it!!

I wouldn't want to be without my Kitchen Aid mixer. I love being able to set it to mixing and do other preps. Then there's my levelers, quick, easy and worth the $. I love Viva towels and the handy dandy sculpting tool I use for the faux fondant is sooo neat! Can't get cheaper than cutting it from a 2 liter bottle. I'll quit now.....Ü

My Kitchenaid for sure. Wouln't know what to do without it.

heavenlys -

HAHAHA! I never would have thought of the power drill with mixer option - brilliant! (my hubby and I used that to do the mud and grout when we tiled our last kitchen) I'll keep that in mind when/if I ever have a project that large

Interfacing material from the fabric section. It works so much better than Viva (for me) to get cakes super smooth. All you have to do is throw it in the washing machine and use it again!

The very large silicone mat for rolling fondant- don't even have to use cornstarch, confectioner's sugar or crisco or whatever to roll it out.

My hands! I couldn't do anything with out them. Everyone should have some. LOL
Seriously, I really like the large angled spatula that wilton makes. I just got it recently and it makes frosting cakes SO much easier.

hmmm...I would have to say my favorite tools are my cake turntable, and disposable bags...I hate washing the ones u keep!! lol

3 things:

- my favorite 6-inch straight spatula that i got from my grandmother's kitchen (i panicked when i thought i lost it last december. it only costs like $3 to replace it but it's so old that the blade has thinned out and i like my blades as thin as possible)

- my cake turntable

- my kitchenaid

What a great idea with the pringles can! Reading this thread,there are so many things I wouldn't thought of. Boy you all made my life alot easier.... Thanks!

I do not like the taste of potatoe chips at all. But, I do have grandchildren, they are very nice, when they have an empty can, they call.

I don't have a Pringles can, but I use a large cup. Like the ones you get when you order a coke at a pizza joint. I think I paid $1 for it. It's perfect!!! Just like Sandie said, you sit the bag in the cup and fold the ends over the rim and put the icing in - NO MESS!!

Saran Wrap is wonderful! When I have large amounts of fillings, I bag them with the saran wrap. I put a large amount in the center of the saran wrap, fold it up like a piece of candy, and twist off both ends and then throw them in the fridge until I need them. Then I just snip off one end, put it in the pastry bag, and it's ready to go!!