Apple Corer
For all you pie lovers, this simple device makes it easy for bakers by removing the whole core with its seeds from apples.
Baking Stone
A slab of stone–usually placed on the lowest rack of the oven–that makes do as the floor of a brick oven.
Cake Leveler
If you’re adding filling to a cake and want the horizontal cuts to be level and even, then this is the tool for you.
Dipping Fork
A favourite among Weddingbells staff, this fork is small and dainty, and is used for enrobing fruit in chocolate. Can also be used for fondue parties.
Egg Separator
Use an egg separator so you can stop having to scoop out yolk from your meringue batter. This simple kitchen tool easily divides the yolk from the white in seconds.
Frother
A device that transforms milk into lush and creamy froth. Think delicious lattes and cappuccinos.
Griddle
Flat metal plate usually used to make sweet cakes, like pancakes and waffles, on the top of the stove.
Hard Sauce
Sweet, butter-based sauce mixed with brandy, rum or whisky. Serve a dollop on top of hot puddings.
Icing Comb
A plastic triangle with a toothed or serrated edge used to produce that perfect and smooth-looking iced cake.
Juicer
Takes freshly squeezed orange juice to the next level. Rather than cramping your hands by squeezing the fruit yourself, all you have to do is cut oranges in half and press them against the revolving device.
Kadhai
A deep frying pan made of various metals and alloys. Usually used for cooking Indian dishes like samosas.
Linzertorte
A tart made of raspberry jam and short pastry containing a variety of nuts and spices.
Mixer
An automated machine, which mixes ingredients at various speeds.
Nozzle
Small metal piece inserted into the end of a piping bag for icing. Comes in various shapes and sizes.
Oven (Convection)
A specialized oven that allows food to be warmed or cooked faster. The trick is a fan that circulates and intensifies the heat, so you reduce the normal cooking time.
Pastry Blender
Also known as a dough scraper. Usually made of stainless steel, this item helps bakers to move and kneed dough faster and better.
Quick Mix
Easy-to-make cakes that are pre-mixed. You can create your favourite chocolate or vanilla cake without error.
Ramekins
Individual ovenware dishes, usually for crème brulée or small pastry cases with cream-cheese filling.
Springform Pan
A baking pan held together with metal clamps or pins so you don’t have to cut around the inside edge to remove the cake. A springform pan opens easily to release the cake or pie.
Timbale
Used in French cooking, a timbale is a cup-shaped earthenware or metal mold. The shape and size are very similar to a bundt cake pan.
Upside-down Cake
The most popular cakes are pineapple, peach and apple. The fruit and flavour are baked on the bottom rather than on the top, then turned out upside-down for eating. Yum.
Vanilla
Small but sweet ingredient that adds extra sweetness and a savoury taste to almost every cake.
Whisk
A tool used for whipping egg whites and other liquidy ingredients. Can also be used if you want to mix cake batter by hand.
X-tra help from Cooking Pros
Want to create those fab gourmet meals but don’t know how? Look to cooking experts like Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver who have various books and shows to help you with your cooking techniques.
Yeast
A leavening ingredient that causes all dough and bread to rise; without yeast, bread would be flat.
Zester
Small tool for scraping off the thin outer skin or “zest” of most citrus fruits.
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