If you are just starting out to learn how to decorate your own cakes, the cake decorating kits available today may be the best way to gather the necessary tools you need to get started. Let’s look at some of the most popular ones available today and what’s included in them.
Wilton makes a variety of cake decorating kits that are great for beginners as well as more advanced decorators that don’t want to search for each and every item they may need.
Wilton Decorating Basics Student Kit
This is the kit you will have to purchase if you plan on taking any of the Wilton Cake Decorating Courses. It includes everything you will need for lesson 1. The kit comes with; 12 decorating tips, 4 standard couplers, 2-10 inch Reusable Featherweight bags, 6 disposable decorating bags, 6 parchment triangles, 1.5 inch flower nail, cupcake nail, decorator brush, 12 flower template stickers, 9 inch spatula and a practice board with standard patterns. While this will get you started on a very basic first cake and includes everything you need for Lesson 1 in the Wilton courses you will need more tools to advance farther in the Wilton series.
Wilton Ultimate Decorating Set
This kit is perfect for the beginner to intermediate cake decorator. It has everything you will need to advance through all the Wilton courses. You will have all the tools you need for icing, gum paste and fondant making. It comes with a convenient carry case but needs to be carefully repacked in order to fit all the items back in. All the items that are included are too numerous to list here but suffice it to say there is everything you will need to decorate cakes for yourself, friends and neighbors.
While I believe Wilton has the best cake decorating kits there are other kits supplied by manufacturers such as Norpro and Ateco so let’s look at one kit from each manufacturer.
Norpro 18 Piece Decorating Set
Very reasonably priced kit great for the beginner. It includes 2 pastry bags, 1 icing nail, 12 tips, 2 couplings, 1 cleaning brush, instructions and recipes. It comes with its own carrying case.
Ateco 14 Piece Cake Decorating Set with Cake Pan
Just what it says, 14 pc kit with a 9 inch cake pan. Includes 12″ and 14″ flex bags, 6 decorating tubes, 1 coupler, 2 pastry tubes, 1 bowl scraper, 1 offset spatula and a storage tray. This is more for decorating cupcakes than cakes as you will probably want more tips to give you more variety of decorations and designs for full size cakes.
There you have it, the complete array of cake decorating kits available today…well not really, but at least a small selection.
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