Let's get down to business before you start to bake any cake; you will always require a few fundamental gadgets. We share with you our best tools which you need to keep in your caddy. A weighing scale is the fundamental tools for baking. Without that, it's useless. Baking requires precise measurements. Cake Board - to show off your beautiful cakes. Acts as a base which can be decorated or covered with fondant. Available in all shapes and sizes. The thicker the cake board, the more stable the cake will be. Cake Leveller - for even layers, no fussing about with a serrated knife which makes more breadcrumbs and unsteady hands. Blades are easily adjustable A cake leveller will be your best friend for life! Cake turntable - for steady layering and decorating. It enables you to work on all sides of a cake, without having to lift and turn it. It brings the fun into cake decorating. Angled Palette knife - the one necessity that is needed, the perfect tool for decorating a cake. Perfect for the sides and on top. Ables, you to spread buttercream evenly for less wastage. Improve the quality of the cake; the flat blade allows you to cover the top of the cake without the handle getting in the way. Icing smoother - perfect for smoothing down fondant once covered on a cake. It will help you get into all the nooks and crannies and help you achieve the ideal finished fondant cake. Cake Lifter - a godsend. A helpful tool to layer cakes with helps you from dropping your sponge with two hands as well. Use it to slide your cake from one cake board to another! Slide it under the cake slowly, and lift! Just make sure the new cake board is prepped and next to you. Cake Dummies - great for stacking onto wedding cakes to give the extra wow factor, to look as if you have baked for a good few months. Cake dummies are great to form the bottom layer as it gives the sponge layer more support and fewer chances of sinking in. They are available in all different shapes and sizes! Easy to decorate too! Concentrated Gel Pastes - highly pigmented making it perfect to colour buttercream, fondant, ganache, etc. A great way to get creative and they are much more useful than your standard food colours! Piping bags - basic decorating necessity, fill it up with buttercream, ganache, glaze, jam, anything you want really, and get playing! They're so easy to use and best of all no washing required at the end, use and throw away! Piping Nozzles - you can never have too many, an essential writing tip, open star nozzle, six petal drop flower nozzle for creating roses. Tools - Scissors, sugarcraft knife and a double ended cutting wheel. Paintbrushes - good quality nylon or sable paint brushes. A mixture of round and flat, for painting and dusting. Selection of cutters - round, petal, leaf, square, hearts and star are always needed. Non-stick rolling pin - for anything really, rolling out pastry dough, cookies, fondant. Wooden rolling pins can leave lines and markings of the wood whereas a non-stick won't. Good quality baking tins - always start off with 6", 8", 10" round or square tins. These are the most popular size and shapes. Sugar Shaker - more straightforward to use when rolling sugarpaste for dispensing the right amount of icing sugar. Alphabet and Number cutters - An easy way to decorate any cake. Great for creating an outline for royal icing.