Cake Decorating Supplies Checklist

Certain tools and equipment (some common, some specialized) are required for cake decorating. Be prepared ahead of time by organizing your cake decorating equipment into a kit. These things are what you’ll need for your cake decorating adventures:

• Icing tips, such as #1–#10 for dots, lines, and scripting; #16, #18, #21, and #32 for forming stars; #48 for basketweaving; #67 for forming leaves; #104 for creating flowers; and a flower nail such as a #7

• Disposable pastry bags

• Couplers for the pastry bags

• Icing offset spatulas, 4-inch and 9-inch

• Ruler

• Various sizes of baking pans, such as 9-inch rounds, 10-inch square, 9-x-13-inch rectangle, 12-x-18-inch rectangle, and Bundt

• Cardboard rounds to support the cake

• Cooling racks

• Cookie, fondant, and gum paste cutters

• Cake tester

• Bench scraper

• Pastry brush

• Decorating comb

• Turntable

• Layer leveler

• Candy and oven thermometers

• Parchment paper

• Toothpicks and bamboo skewers for sketching

• Modeling tools

• A color wheel