Interesting News: Everything You Need to Bake Cakes, According to Professional Bakers By Emma Wartzman

Whether you’re interested in making a towering frosted layer cake online that will impress people or a simple loaf to snack on at home, there are certain tools that are indispensable when it comes to baking a cake order online. A good spray, for example, will ensure your online cake delivery doesn’t stick to the sides of a pan. A proper set of pastry tips will keep you from making a huge mess when frosting. A bench-scraper can lift and smooth and level. We talked to several experts about these must-haves and more, so read on for all their recommendations. And if your fall and winter baking goals go beyond cake online delivery in India, you can find our guide to baking cookies here and our guide to baking pies here.

Fat Daddio’s PRD-92 ProSeries Round Anodized Aluminum Straight-Sided Cake Pan

Two of our baking pros, recipe developers Claire Saffitz and Samantha Seneviratne, say that straight-sided cake pans are a must. “Certain online cake pans have slanted or rounded edges,” Seneviratne says, “so when you go to layer them, you can’t lay them nicely. That’s not something you want to realize when it’s too late.” Saffitz suggests buying anodized aluminum instead of untreated aluminum. Either type “heats quickly and evenly,” she says, “but the fact that the metal is anodized makes it super-nonreactive. Sometimes standard aluminum pans change color over time, and you can get funky flavors.” And if you happen to be tempted by nonstick pans, don’t be, Saffitz says. “They’re terrible. You get a burnt outside with a huge dome that is undercooked in the center.”

$6 AT WEBSTAURANT STORE

Choice 6” x 3” Natural Finish Aluminum Springform Cake Pan

If you want your finished product to look a little different from your standard cake delivery online, cookbook author Odette Williams suggests this small, high-sided cake pan. “It makes the most darling cake you could ever imagine — so stinking cute that people have a visceral reaction whenever they see a cake online order I’ve made in it,” she says. “You can ice it as is or cut it in half to make a layer cake delivery in India.” If you do go this route, Williams notes one important thing: Use a thicker batter and line the pan, since it’s a springform and you don’t want any leaking. She says that many recipes will create more batter than you can fit in the pan, but instead of wasting it, she recommends making cupcakes.

$7 AT WEBSTAURANT STORE

Nordic Ware Lotus Bundt Pan

$32

You can of course go super-simple with your Bundt cakes online order, but baker and cookbook author Vallery Lomas is partial to these decorative Nordic Ware pans, which come in a myriad of beautiful designs. “They’re so well made,” she says. “They distribute heat evenly so that you get an even bake throughout, no matter how intricate the pattern is.”

$32 AT AMAZON

$32 AT FOOD52

Fibrox Pro Pastry Knife

$57

You may already have a serrated knife in your kitchen for cutting bread, but if you don’t (or if yours is a little small or old), both Saffitz and baker and cookbook author Melissa Funk Weller agree that you definitely need one. “The best thing you can do to set yourself up for success when baking a layer online cake to India is to make sure all your layers are even,” says Saffitz. “I prefer a 10-inch knife, perfect for slicing off the rounded domes of the cake online order, which are just about that same size in diameter when you’ve made standard cakes online .” (Standard cake pans are generally 9 or 10 inches.) She notes that there is such a tool as a designated cake-leveler (it basically looks like a saw) but doesn’t think it justifies itself as a single-use tool when this multiuse instrument will come in handy time and time again.

$57 AT VICTORINOX

JB Prince Pastry Brush With Natural Bristles

Saffitz says a pastry brush has two main purposes. First off, you can gently brush away crumbs from the top of the cake delivery in India layers as you work, ensuring a clean surface for frosting. Second, you can use it to soak your layers (meaning brush them with a liquid — whether a flavored syrup or coffee or even just milk, if you don’t want to impart flavor) in order to add moisture. “That step makes a big difference, especially if you’re making said layers ahead of time,” says Saffitz. “Just be sure you get a brush with natural bristles, so that the little hairs don’t fall off. And when you’re done, wash it thoroughly with hot, soapy water, so it doesn’t dry stiff.”

$6 AT J.B. PRINCE

Five Two Bench Scraper

$15

Saffitz uses this indispensable tool for lifting layers, smoothing out frosting around the sides and top of the cakes delivery online, and — with the ruler edge of this one in particular — getting a sense of whether each layer is relatively even. Seneviratne says it’s also useful for leveling out scoops of flour if you’re using measuring cups instead of a scale.

$15 AT FOOD52

Williams Sonoma Olivewood Offset Baking Spatula, Set of 2

$35

“These are the best tools in the world,” says Seneviratne. “I like that this set has two sizes, because I generally use the shorter one for the top of the cake delivery online and the longer one for the sides. But it’s whichever one feels comfortable in your hand. Along with spreading frosting, they’re useful for getting into the corners of pans to loosen the cake to India online and to press down crumb crusts.” Saffitz agrees: “These are often the only tools I use for decorating a cake online order. You can make frosting look smooth or swirled. The smaller one gives you a lot of precision if you’re not a pro.” If you know which size you want, you can buy these individually.

$35 AT WILLIAMS SONOMA

Baker’s Joy The Original No-Stick Baking Spray

$12 for 2

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Lomas says every baker needs baking spray with flour in it because it’s a quick and effective way of coating a pan so that your batter doesn’t stick to the sides after it’s baked. “Unlike regular cooking spray, there’s flour already mixed in,” she explains, “which means it nets similar results to buttering a cake pan and then dusting with flour, which is a whole extra step and much more cumbersome.” This spray is especially useful with intricate cake pans, where it can be difficult to get softened butter into every nook and cranny — and that is crucial to getting your order cake online India not to stick.

$12 FOR 2 AT AMAZON

Webstaurant Store 10” Stainless Steel Rim Sieve

$11

Williams believes a sieve is a must. Along with using it to sift flour (a designated sifter being another one of those single-use tools that is not actually worth the money or space it takes up), she also uses it for “dusting the tops of cakes online order with confectioners sugar or cocoa and straining curd for cakes or syrup for naturally colored dyes.”

$11 AT WEBSTAURANT STORE

Wilton Cake Boards

$7 for 12

Building and frosting your cake on top of a cake board is a must if you’re going to transport it, as it gives the whole construction a sturdy base (just imagine trying to lift a finished cake delivery India without any bottom support). But that’s not the only thing they’re useful for: If you buy boards that are the same size as your cake delivery pan, they can also serve as a handy reference for how much frosting to add. Because the batter contracts ever so slightly as it’s baking, you’ll be left with a skinny ring around the base of the birthday cakes to India that will help guide you.

$7 FOR 12 AT WILTON

JK Adams Marble and Walnut Rotating Cake Stand

$115

If you are going to frost directly on a best birthday cake online stand, Seneviratne likes this one from JK Adams, which rotates “really smoothly,” she says, “but is also pretty enough to serve off of.”

$115 AT FOOD52