Over the past 15 years we have made literally thousands of cakes. Here we have listed our top twenty most used pieces of equipment
The easyflow smoother/polisher is brilliant for smoothing and polishing sugarpaste icing to give any cake a professional finish. Can also be used when marzipanning cakes.
20 Inch non-stick rolling pin. Size: 20" x 40mm (508 x 40mm)
Straight palette knife with 4" (101mm) blade.
Icing nozzle stand - dampen foam base with clean water and stand icing bag in stand to prevent icing hardening at nozzle point. Holds 6 bags.
Seamless stainless steel writing tube 1. Perfect for fine writing, trellis and lace work, dots and small snails trail.
Seamless stainless steel medium rope tube.
10.75" 'Varipin' textured rolling pin, perfect for creating large material effect drapes and swags on cakes. Dust over with a lustre colour to enhance the pattern. Size: 11.75" (270mm)
6" non-stick rolling pin. Size: 6" x 25mm (152 x 25mm)
Set of blossom/forget-me-not plunger cutters. Use to cut out small flowers that can be wired up or pressed straight onto cake.
Sizes: 5mm, 8mm and 13mm across
This Garrett frill cutter comes with 3 interchangeable centres to make frills of different depths, the larger the central circle cutter, the shallower the frill. You can use sugarpaste but the frills keep their shape and are much easier to make and frillier if you use a mixture of 50/50 sugarpaste and petal paste or modelling paste. Kneed equal amounts of the sugarpaste and petal paste/modelling paste together, roll out fairly thinly on a dusting of corn flour and cut out. Open up the circular frill & carefully straighten it out a little. Now take a cocktail stick, celstick or use the end of a paint brush to firmly roll each section into a frill. A dusting of corn flour will prevent the frill sticking and attach to cake by moistening the top edge with water or use a little edible glue.
Click on info for more decorating ideas and an information from The Wedding Cake Decorator's Bible by Alan Dunn.
6.5" (165mm) thin scriber for marking out patterns on sugarpaste. Can also be used as a cake tester or clearing blocked icing tubes.
A set of 4 heart leaf cutters ideal for creating beautiful designs on wedding cakes or anniversary, birthday or valentines day cakes. Sizes from 1.5cm to 3cm long. Click on photo to see decorating idea.
Set of 4 stainless steel star cutters. Sizes: between 1cm and 3.5cm