To prepare a delicious pie, cookies, cake and other pastries is only half the battle, it is important to beautifully decorate your work. For this, they came up with a confectionery tool. A variety of baking dishes, items to help simplify the work, sprinkles for decorating, creams help create a real work of art - a personalized cake or just something unique from a regular dough. Each good housewife will need confectionery equipment in order to please even more home. Of course, you can take advantage of the means at hand, but the range of possibilities is significantly reduced.
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Confectionery devices, probably, have many women in the kitchen. They help to prepare the basis for baking without much effort and extra time. These are:
- Bowls for mixing ingredients, spoon, rolling pin, knife.
- Measuring spoons and glasses help to accurately measure the desired value, since each recipe clearly prescribes how many grams of ingredients are needed for cooking. You can use scales for such things, but they take up too much space.
- The whisk for whipping can be replaced with a blender. It gives a high-quality result quickly and easily. There used to be hand whisks, now the development has come to the creation of mixers, which greatly simplifies the cooking process.
- Bakeware. An indispensable confectionery tool. There are large and small sizes. It helps to create a minimal design for the cake, if it is not layered, and is an integral part of cookies.
- Silicone brushes for coating the finished product.
- The lattice on which the pastries are cooling.
- Shoulder blades.
Baking begins to decorate even before it is baked. She is given a shape with uneven, openwork edges, the cake is pre-sprinkled with fruits, nuts or chocolate.
Bakeware
You can use the tools at hand, sometimes the result is the same, but a special confectionery tool makes the process more interesting.
- It is better to use metal baking dishes, they are more durable, allow the dough to bake well, it is easy to get the finished product out of them, even a little burnt. Such forms are used in the preparation of bread, figured cookies, puddings, cakes and other.
- Ceramic molds are suitable for baking even in the microwave. They look pretty attractive, which allows you to serve without taking out the table. Such dishes should be treated with caution, as she is afraid of bumps.
- Silicone molds can be matched to the color of the kitchen and hung on a hook. They are convenient to use, because in order to extract the pastries, you just need to unscrew the form. Such a confectionery tool is attractive in that it is not susceptible to rust, does not break, does not lose quality. Cakes and pastries in silicone cook much faster. It can be used not only in the oven, but also in the microwave or freezer.
Each type of form has its own disadvantages and advantages, choose what is right for you.
About pastry bags
Now the fun begins - decorating the finished baking.
A confectionery syringe with nozzles is known to every housewife. It opens up the possibility of showing imagination and creating anything on, perhaps, an ordinary piece of dough.
- Disposable and reusable syringes differ in time of use. The first option is suitable for the ordinary housewife, who is engaged in baking a couple of times a month and does not want to spend extra money on a durable device.
- A variety of sections indicate which form will be obtained.
You can also use a bag, it is already chosen by each confectioner himself, depending on what is more convenient for him. A few facts about this confectionery tool:
- You can make a pastry bag yourself from thick paper.
- The scope of its use is limited to inscriptions and flowers.
- It has a large capacity.
Decorating baking in other ways
More advanced ones can add to their confectionery inventory:
- Plungers. With their help, decorative elements are created.
- Small details are cut out by stacks.
- Cutters create interesting details from mastic.
- Special devices that give edible flowers a more natural look by twisting the petals.
Create works of art and delight your family. A pastry baking tool will help make any dessert more appetizing!