Basic Cake Decorating Equipment

You will need some basic cake decorating equipment before you go ahead and decorate your own wedding cake or cookie favors.

You may already have most of the basic equipment needed for simple cake decorating. Do read the recipes for the equipment needed before going out and purchasing these you don’t want to buy something that you will never use.

A sieve for sifting icing sugar to make sure that there are no lumps.

A spatula to scrape out every last bit of icing from the mixing bowl.

Palette knife you will need a small and medium size. These are great for spreading the icing over the top of the cake and round the sides.

Piping nozzles for simple icings. A 5mm (¼ inch) and a 1cm (½ inch) rose nozzle will get you started and are good to use with butter icings. A No. 2 writing nozzle is useful for piping glace icing and melted chocolate.

Greaseproof paper to make piping bags used for piping melted chocolate and glace icing.

Fine paintbrushes used to paint food colorings onto icings and molded decorations.

A sugar thermometer used when making American frosting and fondant icings. Stand it in hot water for a few minutes before and after use.

A cake board slightly larger that the cake you are to decorate. The cake boards can be wiped over (do not immerse in water) and used again.

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