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10 Essential Baking Tools for Beginners
Baking Tools for beginners – Are you counting down to the weekend? You’re probably planning on going to the cinema or a nice dinner at a restaurant. But why not challenge yourself in the kitchen with making cakes? You can also challenge your kids and your husband to make a Kreasi Pondan cake recipe. No need to worry if this is your first time baking cakes.
For baking a basic cake you only need these ten tools :
- Oven
Actually, you can make some desserts without ovens such as chocolates and confections, but you definitely need an oven whether it is a regular or mini size for baking. There are two popular types of ovens: electric oven and stove oven. Choose an oven that suits the best to your needs.
- Mixer
A mixer is not essential for cake-making but it does save time and minimize effort. A mixer also helps the process of mixing the dough more easily.
- Measuring Tools
Measuring tools come in all shapes and functions. Measuring spoons are used for both dry and wet ingredients. They usually include 1 tablespoon, 1 teaspoon and so on. There are also graduated measuring cups that are used to measure liquid and pourable ingredients. Lastly, there are measuring cups for measuring ingredients such as flour, sugar, or nuts.
- Scales
As accuracy is key in baking, a good set of scales are necessary for measuring out ingredients. Choose from digital or manual – but it’s best to use digital as they can usually accurately measure right down to a gram or two.
- Baking Sheets
Baking sheets are essential for baking cookies. As a beginner, you do not need to buy all kinds of baking sheets. For starters, you only need a standard cookie sheet and cake sheet. Don’t forget to compare the size of the baking pan with your oven at home.
- Spatula
You will find many different types of spatulas on the market ranging from plastic, silicone to wood. A wide head spatula is good for stirring and folding batter and a narrow head spatula is useful for scraping foods from jars or bowls. It is good to have one of each size.
- Sifter
A sifter is used to sift flour or combine dry ingredients. Sifters usually have a crank that pushes ingredients through the mesh, but sieves work just as well as sifters. If you have regular sieves that you use for cooking, you don’t need to buy a sifter for baking purposes.
- Parchment Paper
Parchment paper is a cellulose-based paper that is used in baking as a disposable non-stick surface. It’s also called baking paper. If you don’t use parchment paper, you certainly can simply grease the cookie sheet itself or you can bake cookies on aluminum foil. But you should be aware that they will cook faster and the bottoms will brown more and get crispy.
- Whisk
When you are not yet ready to buy a hand mixer or stand mixer, a whisk is what you need. It is very time-consuming, but it will perform baking tasks like whipping, creaming, and mixing. It is good to have different sized whisks because you can use them in many different ways. Also, a smaller whisk performs better than a bigger whisk.
- Cooling Racks
Cooling racks are used to cool cakes or cookies after taking them out of the oven. This is an essential piece of equipment for helping air to circulate around your freshly-baked cake or biscuits, avoiding sogginess.
Those are ten baking tools that beginners need. Even if you would have to buy some of them and end up not baking so much, you know they will be used in many other ways in your kitchen. But if you already have most of these items, what are you actually waiting for? Let’s jump to the kitchen and start baking. Click Kreasi Pondan to see more cakes recipes you could try at home.
