Essential Tools

Roll of 5 meters of Acetate strips. Each strip measures approimatley 5cm wide.

This is a great tool for smoothing and thinning the edges of flowers and leaves and encouraging the petals/leaves to curl.

This very useful tool set, contains 6 useful tools, for all sorts of modelling. The set includes: Ball Tool – For softening/thinning edges, Bone Tip Tool – For finer details in flower marks, Shell Tool – For decorative boarders, Cone and Star Cone Tools – For centre of flowers, Smile Tool – For smiles and hollowing on, Angled Tools – For cutting and marking edges, Rolled Edge Tool – for smoothing edges

This Metal Cooling Tray is perfect for cooling your delicious baking delights on.

It measures approximately 46cm x 25cm (18 inches x 10 inches)

A very useful tool to have to hand when working with sugar and florist paste. Use this handy pouch to dust cornflour on to your work area to stop your pastes from sticking.

To make life easier when doweling your cakes, this fab template will help with making sure your cakes are level and properly secured.

Our favourite edible glue which we use in nearly everything we make. 1 pot = 25g.

Electronic scales  with a capacity of 5kg (11lb) and worktop protecting non-scratch feet. The metric and imperial electronic display and  are ideal for use when weighing out ingredients when baking.

Scales include: Two CR2032 batteries included.

The tool we use for everything – from softening rose petal edges to making little animal ears.  A cupcake essential.

A very handy tool to do your flower work with. This stand contains 10 plastic flower supports (not shown in image) which enable you to stand your flowers so they can dry. You can also decorate your flowers whilst in the stand, allowing use of both your hands for the fiddly task. You can also use this stand to hold your icing bags in – ensuring no mess is left all over the worktops!

Our soft boards are the secret to soft petal edges which we make using the ball tool on these boards.   A multitude of uses. Approx 19.5 cm (8inches) x 19.5cm

This tool is perfect for fine detailing as well as creating a wide shaped veining effect on leaves and petals.

Set of 3 Balls, that you cut in half to create 6 half balls. These are perfect for creating the domed effect on cupcakes

Balls Approx 7cm

This handy tool is a must if your making beautiful flowers which need to be hung in order to dry. You can hang all your flowers upside down by bending a hook in the wire of your flower.

This stand measures 10.6″ x 6.3″ x 4.7″

An absolute essential if you are working with sugar paste.  It is by adding Gum Tragacanth that you obtain the right consistency for your sugar paste.  Without it, you just cannot use the paste in the same way.  You need to add 1 teaspoon of Gum Tragacanth to every 250 g of sugar paste.   Each pot = 25g of gum tragacanth which is bigger than the standard size pot.

This handy icing bag stand is a great tool to assist with keeping your icing fresh which helps the adhesion of icing, but it is also a useful tool to leave the icing bag in whilst working with various bags which helps keep your surfaces clean! The icing stand can hold up to 6 piping bags.

A large cutting wheel suitable for cutting fondant for bigger cakes.

This tool is what we use to make our perfectly smooth and flat topped cupcakes.  Works like a dream with buttercream. Approx 11 inches long (28 cm)

Perfect for drying flowers and leaves as well as mixing edible paints.  As used in the Small Orchid Online Tutorial.

5 multi coloured spoons for weighing out ingredients.

1 tbs/ 1/2 tbs/ 1 tsp/ 1/2 tsp and 1/4 tsp

This Extra Large Board measures approx 50cm x 60 cm. This makes it ideal to use when rolling out icing for covering Cakes and Dummies

A bigger board for bigger cake and floral work.  Board measures approximately 30cm by 25cm

All our decorating work is carried out using non-stick boards.  These avoid to the need for icing sugar or cornflour.  With our non-stick rolling pins, you have the perfect starting tools.  Approx 10 inches long (24.5 x 16 cm).

A very handy tool to use for work with sugar paste and florist paste. The pin measures 23cm in length.

Our essential non-stick rolling pins are perfect for cupcake work.  The non-stick designs means no messing around with icing sugar/cornflour etc.  Combined with our-non stick boards, you can work much faster. Aprrox 6 inches (15 cm) long.

A giant non stick rolling pin measuring 16 inches/40cm perfect for bigger cake work.

With 6 holes for different colours, this palette is ideal for mixing your colours. We use this in our Cake Painting Class

Approximately 20cm (8 inches) long

Perfect for removing your cupcake toppers from any surface without damaging them.  We could not work without this essential tool! Approx 8 inches long (20cm)

10cm Stainless Steel Paring Knive. It has a non stick coated blade and a silicone handle. Perfect to use when peeling, chopping and dicing. Knife comes with a free protective storage case to use when not in use.

This tool does what it says on the tin, it creates a life like veiner effect on petals and leaves and it can also be used for making smiles and eyebrows.

An essential tool and used on most of our classes! This tool is used for marking patterns and dots on icing.

When piping buttercream, you need strong and non slip piping bags.  These disposable bags are excellent and we use them all the time.  Their non-slip coating means they are easy to grip.   Rolls of 10 bags.   Each bag approx 23 x 45 cm (9 x 17 inches).

Simply add and paste colour to this gel to make a bright piping gel of your choice.  Can be piped with a writing nozzle to create colourful words and letters or dolloped on with a spoon to create ponds, swimming pools etc (use ice blue to colour water colour).  Piping Gel is 100% edible.

Set of 5 replacement blades for when you have just made too many decorations and your knife is blunt!  Fit our scapal knife

A set of 10, 12 inch clear, non-stick piping bags, perfect to use with royal icing and precision piping, we use these in our cookie class, mini cakes class and two tier big cakes class.

This knife comes with a removable sharp blade that you can use to cut delicate designs and clean edges on your cupcake toppers. We also sell the replacement blades

Very fine scissors for fiddly work

Flexible silicone pastry brush measures approx 26cm (10.5 inches) and is heat resistant up 260°C (500°F)

Flexible silicone spatula measures approx 28cm (11 inches) and is heat resistant up 260°C (500°F)

The perfect tool for making little smiles on your novelty characters

18cm fine mesh stainless steel sieve.

The tool we use to create the stitching effect on our novelty teddys and patchwork blankets

High quality tweezers for that extra delicate work.

An alternative to Gum Tragacanth. Tylose powder can be added to Sugar paste and Florist paste.

Pack of 12 edible wafer paper sheets. Each Sheet measuring at 178mm x 142 mm

Ingredients: Water, Vegetable Oil

If you struggle to cut straight lines, you may find it easier with this handy little tool which rolls and cuts.

If you have hot hands, these are great to use for handling chocolate and they won’t leave fingerprints on the chocolate you’re working with either. A handy addition for your cake equipment (excuse the pun!)