To create cakes, pastries and other sweets used a variety of confectionery inventory, without which the cooking process will be complicated, and sometimes completely impossible. Consider the main types of such adaptations that should be in the kitchen of any pastry chef.
Confectionery inventory for cakes
Prepare a cake without a clever inventory can, but the aesthetics of such a product will be a bit. Another thing, if you arm yourself with special devices and with their help to create real confectionery miracles. It is possible to stir the dough and whip the cream in the old manner, but it is much more convenient and easier to do it with the help of modern instruments, because they are intended for this purpose.
Forms
To bake a simple cake or a multi-tiered masterpiece will require special shapes. Traditionally they are round, but on sale there are also figured ones - in the form of hearts, flowers, animals. Round forms are the most practical, especially if they are detachable - it is more convenient to take out the cake without fear of damaging it.
Cake stand
Not the most necessary, but very convenient professional confectionery inventory - a rotating tray-stand, on which you can decorate the finished product with cream. This design can be with a horizontal or inclined rotating table, and the second option is more successful, especially when working with a confectionery bag.
Pastry bag
The final chord in the preparation of any cake is its decoration. To make all kinds of roses, curls, leaves, you need a confectionery (culinary) bag or syringe. Professionals use reusable linen and silicone bags of large volume, and for household use, disposable ones made of parchment or cellophane are perfect.
Of course, one bag does not work, because different forms of cream when squeezing give attachments. They are sold both individually and in sets. Usually syringes are used by inexperienced confectioners, especially if cakes are seldom baked. But such devices have a remarkable nozzle-tube, with which you can fill with eclairs and other cakes.
For mastic
Modern confectioners often use mastic as a "tight" cake, as well as for making various pieces of jewelry. To create all this beauty you need a lot of small and not so many tools: mastic utensils, scrapers, plungers, special pastry syringes, rollers, rolls and rugs with a curved surface, a roller for cutting mastic (culinary wheel), modeling rollers, press templates, brushes. This is far from a complete list, since sets with small tools number dozens of different names, which only a professional can know.
Universal equipment for confectionery
Making cakes is only a small part of everything that can be cooked as a dessert. To work was a pleasure, you will need a variety of confectionery dishes and tools that are suitable for a variety of culinary masterpieces.
To mix the dough and cream, containers are required. It is desirable that they are light and strong. For this purpose, plastic and stainless bowls of different capacities are perfect.
For baking muffins and muffins will need small paper and silicone molds with corrugated walls. And for larger products you can buy large forms of silicone - good, in stores a large selection of such goods.
Do not forget about measuring utensils - glasses with graduation are very convenient for the correct dosage of components, although in modern kitchens you can see electronic scales more often.
To stir the dough and the cream, you need to use a silicone spatula and not just one. They differ in thickness and shape. In addition, it is desirable to have in the arsenal of various spatulas, which spread the cream on cakes and pastries.
The production of confectionery is not easy, but very exciting. If at hand there will be all kinds of inventory, then the love of fuss in the kitchen can soon go to a professional level.