Baking Tools and Equipment (definition)

Mixer

A table top or handheld machine that can knead bread doughs using a hook and whip butter and eggs together with the whisk attachment for flaky cookies.

Pastry blender

Also known as a dough blender, is used to cut butter or other fat into dry ingredients, such as when making piecrust, scones, or biscuits. A pastry blender has stainless steel wires shaped into a half-moon, with a stainless or wooden handle for gripping. In place of a pastry blender, two kitchen knives also work well for cutting the ingredients together.

Muffin pans

These are a rectangular metal baking pan with six or twelve cup, used to bake both muffins and cupcakes. Designed to replace parchment papers. Muffin pan sizes are typically mini, standard, and jumbo sized

Loaf pans

These pans are used for most quick bread recipes, such as banana bread and zucchini bread.

Spatulas

These tools has many uses including scraping batters down from the sides and bottom of a mixing bowl, spreading fillings, stirring stovetop custards and chocolate while heating, folding lighter ingredients into heavy batters, scrambling eggs, and more.

Pastry brush

Use these to spread glazes and grease pans

Mixing bowls

Used for mixing, whipping creams or egg whites, preparing ingredients, raising breads, or just storing food in the refrigerator

Rolling pins

Used for shaping and rolling dough; essential for rolling pie pastry, sugar cookie dough, and bread dough

Sifter

Used to sift and eliminate or separate clumps from any dry ingredient, including flour, cocoa powder, and confectioner's sugar. The most common sifter is a canister type with either a single mesh screen, or triple mesh screen and a rotating blade that is controlled by a rotary or squeeze handle. Choose a sifter with at least a three-cup capacity.

Whisk

Used to whisk or stir wet or dry ingredients together, beating egg whites or cream, stirring ingredients as they heat in a saucepan and folding ingredients together