Fondant tools
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With the right fondant tools, you work more neatly and quickly and achieve a professional finish, whether you are covering a cake, modelling figures or making sugar flowers. This category includes basic tools such as smoothers, modelling tools, rolling mats and cake dowels, moulds, texture mats and cutters, spatulas and cake levellers, as well as equipment for sugar flowers.
Basic equipment for fondant
A few good tools are all you need to get started. The essentials are in Basic tools:
- Fondant smoother: the icing smoother or the three-angled fondant smoother smooths fondant without air bubbles and creates sharp edges.
- a 40 x 30 cm silicone mat or the XL 80 x 60 cm rolling mat, so that nothing sticks
- spacer rods for an even thickness when rolling out; a smooth rolling pin leaves no texture in the fondant
- modelling tools and a sugarcraft knife for details and clean cuts
- clear edible glue (20 g tube) for attaching decorations
- cake dowels for tiered cakes in 4, 8 or 18 mm, so that the upper tiers do not sink
For covering with buttercream or ganache, a small stainless steel palette knife, a turntable such as the Wilton Basic Turntable and a cake leveller are invaluable; you will find them in Spatulas , leveler & smoothers.
Embossing, cutting and sugar flowers
Add textures and patterns to fondant with texture mats, moulds and cutters: Moulds, texture mats & decoration. The Paw Patrol embossing cutters are particularly popular for children's cakes. A Swiss speciality is the range of carved biscuit moulds with designs such as the Matterhorn, edelweiss, the Bernese bear, an alphorn player or the Swiss coat of arms, suitable for fondant, marzipan and aniseed biscuits. To make sugar flowers you need floral wires, petal and leaf formers, ball tools and gum paste or flower paste; everything is in Gumpaste flower. A stainless steel cake divider for 10 portions and slice separators help with neat portioning later. A cake steamer gives fondant and sugar flowers a natural sheen and removes traces of cornflour or icing sugar.
Frequently asked questions about fondant tools
Which tools do I need as a beginner?
A rolling mat, spacer rods, a fondant smoother, a sharp knife and a turntable. With these, you can cover your first cake neatly.
When do I need cake dowels?
Always for tiered cakes. The dowels carry the weight of the upper tiers so that the bottom cake is not squashed.
How do I stop fondant from sticking?
Work on a silicone mat lightly dusted with cornflour or icing sugar, and keep your tools clean and dry.
See also: Fondant and gum paste · Rolling pins · Cake turntable