Cake Decorating Equipment Key Terms

Keep up with cake decorating equipment terms to keeps tools and techniques fresh

To create an array of cake and cupcake designs to celebrate occasions from weddings to birthdays to holidays, you’ll need the right cake decorating equipment to get the job done. By keeping your knowledge of cake decorating equipment current, you’ll ensure you’re ordering the proper tools from wholesalers or bakery supply vendors. These tools will help you and your staff push the envelope when it comes to designing eye-catching looks with fondant, buttercream frostings and assorted condiments.

 

Icing dispenser

When decorating a high volume of cakes, an icing dispenser helps create intricate looks with less effort and mess. Most tools allow you to work with materials from icing to chocolate, and feature additional modules to work with sugar, batter and other condiments.
Try: SugarVeil offers details and cake decorating tips for its air-powered, hand-held icing dispenser.

Offset spatulas

Also handy for lifting small baked goods like cupcakes from baking trays, offset spatulas are ideal for spreading icing to create a pristine surface for cake decorations. With their long, bent blades, the spatulas make it easy to smooth soft frosting with less hand fatigue.
Try: See a selection of offset spatulas and a discussion of their possible uses through Fine Cooking.

Decorating combs

Also available in triangle and square versions, decorating combs make it simple to create textured looks in buttercream frostings. Find the edge design to suit the cake you're decorating and lightly drag the tool, also called a frosting comb, through the frosting to add ridges or waves.
Try: See decorating combs and decorating triangles and find tips on using them to create custom frosting looks through Wilton.

Cake leveler

A cake leveler allows you to smooth uneven cakes and create multiple layers with a single cut. The tool features measurement guides and blades that make it easy to create intricate layer cakes or tortes.
Try: Check out a video and description of cake levelers through the website of Agbay Products.

Silicone molds

Sculpting fondant icing to create detailed cake decorations is easy with silicone molds that allow bakers to simply press in the icing for quick custom looks. The easy release molds greatly reduce decorating time by eliminating the need to hand craft each flower or border.
Try: View a selection or silicone molds through Kitchen Krafts. Designs include pearl strands, drops, ropes and flowers, for example.

Cake projector

If your baking team is creating custom cake designs from client photos, for example, a cake projector allows you to impose the image on the surface to assist the replication. The projection can help with frosted designs or even detailed paintings on fondant.
Try: See illustrations and get additional details on cake projectors through The Bakers Kitchen.

Fondant

This cooked concoction of water, sugar, and corn syrup can be sculpted, poured over petits fours, or colored and rolled out to form a firm cake topping. It is essential to most cake bakers and decorators.
Try: Learn more about the three main kinds of fondant at Baking 911.

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