BAKING TOOLS YOU NEED IN YOUR KITCHEN 

1.  HAND MIXER

Hand mixers are great for baking because their versatility allows for mixing, whisking, whipping and beating all with the same tool. They can gently mix nuts into batter, cream butter and sugar together for cookies, or whip up light, fluffy frosting for cupcakes.

2. Immersion Blender + Whisk + Frother

You can use an immersion blender to mix up batters for cakes, brownies and a nearly endless variety of sweet or savory pancakes and crepes. Blend together wet ingredients, then slowly incorporate dry ingredients, blending until smooth—no more lumpy batters. 

3. Oven Thermometer

An oven thermometer can help you test for hot spots, and allow you to find out the ideal position to place your food and baking sheets. It can also tell you if you will need to flip and move your food, or rotate your pans mid-baking to ensure even cooking. 

4. Oven Mitts

The primary benefit of using oven mitts and pot holders is to protect your hands and fingers from high temperatures when handling hot pots, pans, and baking trays. They are designed to insulate your hands from the heat, preventing burns.

5. Stand Mixer

By holding the bowl in place, a stand mixer delivers thorough mixing on dense, heavy doughs, batters and other mixtures. If you're planning to make multi-grain bread, rolls, pasta or homemade pretzels, you'll appreciate the capacity and stability offered by a stand mixer. 

6. Kitchen Scale

A scale can be used to weigh out ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, and even liquids for baking. You can also use it to check serving sizes, check fruit and veggie sizes for recipes, or evenly portion things like cookie dough 

7. Baking Mat

Using a baking mat to cover baking sheets will help protect the baking sheet from stuck-on messes or scratches. Baking with silicone baking sheets makes baking and cleanup much easier and allows you to make more baked goods at one time. Experience the benefits for yourself!

8. Cookie Scoop

The biggest benefit of using a cookie scoop instead of any ol' spoon (or your hands) to transfer cookie dough from the mixing bowl to the baking sheet is also the most obvious: It creates consistency—the exact same size, shape, and diameter—among each cookie. 

9. Mesh Strainer

Its job is to aerate and separate dry ingredients like flour, cocoa powder, and powdered sugar, which will lead to a lighter and more tender crumb in baked goods. It is particularly useful in delicate cakes like a sponge cake, which uses clump-prone cake flour 

10. Cooling Rack

To finish bread, cakes, cookies and meringues off perfectly it's essential to allow steam to escape and encourage air to circulate around soggy bottoms. A cooling rack will allow you apply finishing touches more quickly, ensuring cakes don't sit in pools of excess icing. 

11. Baking Pans

A baking pan is great for recipes when you need a bit of browning. Most commonly, a baking pan will be used for cakes, but you can also use a baking pan for treats such as brownies, muffins and breads. 

12. Rolling Pin

A rolling pin is a handy tool for rolling out various types of dough, like cinnamon rolls, pizza, and cookie dough. It helps to flatten the dough evenly, which prevents uneven baking or burning. You can also use it for rolling out puff pastry and scones. 

13. Muffin Pan

Muffin pans are used for holding batters or mixes while they bake in the oven. Muffin pans are usually made to make muffins and cupcakes. Other uses for muffin pans include homemade peanut butter cups, baked egg cups, or even some types of no-bake desserts 

14. Round Cake Pans

Great for baking round layered cakes, tiered cakes, chiffon, casseroles, and a variety of other sweet treats as well as savory meals like pies, deep-dish pizza, and large flans. 

15. Pie Dish

The biggest perk of a glass pie plate is being able to see what’s going on with your crust while it’s baking. Even when the top crust seems nicely golden brown, the bottom crust may need a few more minutes to fully cook, especially with juicy fruit filling in an insulated dish. 

16. Dough Blender

The Dough Blender is ideal for blending and cutting wet and dry ingredients such as flour and sugar fast and easily, making mixing and baking easier and more enjoyable for bakers. 

17. Whisk

Whisks are used to blend ingredients together quickly or to incorporate air into ingredients such as egg whites or heavy cream in order to increase the volume of the mixture  

18. Spatula Set

The core job of a spatula is to mix, fold, stir, or scrape food out of a container or mixing bowl—for example, removing the last drop of peanut butter from the jar, folding egg whites into melted chocolate for mousse, or collecting the last bits of cookie batter from the bowl. 

19. Mixing Bowls

Mixing bowls are perfect for mixing all the ingredients before you put them in the oven. They can also be used to hold any extra batter or frosting that you may have. No matter what mixing bowl you choose, make sure it is big enough for all the ingredients you will be using. 

20. Measuring Spoons

Measuring spoons are used for measuring small, exact amounts of ingredients. Measuring spoons accurately measure spices and other dry ingredients such as baking powder and even small amounts of flour. Liquid ingredients, such as honey, milk, or tomato paste, are also measured in measuring spoons. 

21. Measuring cups + spoons

Measuring cups are kitchen tools used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients such as flour and sugar, 

22. Cake Pan 

Cake pans are a nice vessel for baked eggs, or a small casserole or batch of mac and cheese. 

23. Loaf Pans

A loaf pan is a kitchen utensil in the form of a container in which bread is baked. Its function is to shape bread while it is rising during baking. The most common shape of the bread pan is the loaf, or narrow rectangle, a convenient form that enables uniform slicing.