Must Have Sugar Crafting Equipment

It isn't enough if you got the skills and appetite to make and bake cakes. You can use all the help you can get with the right kind of ammunition of supplies and tools. With the right set of cutlery and weaponry, you can decorate and design with flair like a piece of cake. You can browse and buy some baking tools and equipment on Cakesmiths. Below are some essentials you will not be able to do without in the kitchen for your sugar crafting experiments.

Modeling tools :

Sugar crafting is all about the decoration and modelling and moulding of shapes and designs. So naturally, the first set to acquire before getting your hands nice and dirty is a modelling tool set which should include Ball Tools and Veiners.

Ball tools :

This tool is quite the handy kit! It comes in handy when you want to thin out and ruffle sugar flower petals to give them soft frilly edges or create round indentations. It is important that decorations look realistic and delicate and not gaudy and plastic. This is where ball tools help to give curves and dimensions to the designs.

Veiner's :

Double sided silicon veiners are like wands in the hands of the magician and work like a charm in adding texture to petals and leaves. Indentions, quilting and improving the definition of sugar leaves are only possible with this tool, no special spell required! Absolute must haves for that finishing touch. Veiner's have repetitive series of lines much like stitches that make it easy to add detail to a character's costume or doing up a patchwork pattern.

Foam pads & CelBoard :

A Mexican foam pad lives up to its name and helps craft Mexican hat shaped floral bodies on to your pieces. Cell board is a type of pad that is made of hard plastic. It has linear grooves on one side so that you can create ‘veins' down the back of petals and leaves created where floral wires can be inserted.

Petal cutters :

Roses are red and also the best looking on cake decorations. You can't sugar craft roses and those intricate swirly petals without petal cutters! Add them to the top of your list.

Pliers & scissors:

Handy tools to have are also pliers, wire cutters and small sharp scissors. You'll need the pliers and wire cutters when working with wire for floral sprays. The scissors are useful for a myriad of jobs especially adding texture to fondant topiary bushes!

Paintbrushes :

Very much like painting on a canvas, baking and decorating a cake requires different types of brushes too. You need flat brushes for adding colour to flower petals and leaves, fine bristle tapered brushes for any kind of dots or emboss effects and large, wide brushes for general dusting.

Fondant rolling pin :

A small yet mighty handy tool is the non stick fondant rolling pin that helps roll straight edged fondant. 9 inches is the ideal length.

Floral wire & tape :

Floral wire and floral tape are essentials when it comes to floral spraying. Plastic coated floral wire is stronger than one that is covered with paper; remember- the stronger the wire the lower the gauge number!

Tylo powder & glue:

Tylo helps harden and strengthen fondant when added to the mixture. Edible glue, as well, is a good bet for attaching petals or stamens onto decorations.

Cutting mat:

A cutting mat is used on edible items, in case of making characters from fondant or sugar crafting flowers. It looks like a dark green rectangle with a brighter green grid.

Cake dummies:

Polystyrene cake dummies are the perfect stand in for a dress rehearsal of sorts for standing your flowers on when creating sprays with wire! A smart tool to have inspite of its name!

Now that you know what's what, ready that shopping list and browse online for supplies. You can even buy silicone cupcake mould online India on Cakesmiths.