Essential Tools for Beginner bakers! Unlock Your Baking Potential

With so many gadgets out there and so many opinions it can be hard to know what to get when you are just starting out in your baking journey. Let me share all of the essential tools that will help you get going.

These are the kitchen tools you really need to have on hand. I’ll explain when you might want more than one and why some tools are worth the investment. I’m here to make it easy and take all the guesswork off your plate.

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I have linked all of my suggestions. You do not need to buy these exact items, personally I have found that it is helpful when I can see what someone is telling me about, rather than just hearing about it.

I’ll break it all down into clear categories, which should make things even easier to follow.

Table of Contents

Measuring

• Measuring Cups, every kitchen should have a set of measuring cups. Growing up in the UK we didn’t tend to use these they were primarily an American way of measurement. But over the years this is changing and you are seeing more recipes written this way. I do like using cups for some recipes but not all. I also use my 1 cup in place of a ladle, it works really well as a scoop.
• Kitchen Scales, weighing your ingredients will always be more accurate. And that is something that baking tends to require. I will always recommend using an electric scale in place of measuring cups.
• Measuring spoons try to find one with the one eighth spoon measurement. Funny enough this measurement will pop up more often than you think.
• Measuring jugs, another classic kitchen tool.

Essential tools for mixing

• Whisks I suggest buying metal whisks and not the plastic ones.
• Mixing bowls. Yes you need multiples, 3 will be enough.
• Wooden Spoons and Spatulas, I love wood but having at least one silicone is the best option it scrapes out bowls a lot more efficiently
• Electric hand mixer. This wont take up a lot of space but will make life so much easier as well as faster.
• Sieve

Shaping tools

• Cookie scoops one small one large not necessary essential but I love mine and you wont regret the purchase
• Cookie cutters start with simple round cutters in multiple sizes they usually come in a set
• Rolling Pin, I do prefer a solid wooden rolling pin, in my experience I have found that I can achieve more pressure than I do when I use one with handles. Which if you are making pastry you will know you need that pressure. It also works great as a pestle.

Essential tools for cooking/baking

• Cookie sheets I recommend having two. Saves having to bake multiple batches separately
• Round cake tins perfect for cakes, having two means you can make sandwich cakes, 8 inches are a good standard size
• Square cake tin either 8 or 9 inch tins should work for most recipes.
• Muffin tin
• Cooling rack again more than one would be ideal, I love my stacking racks I have had them for years.
• Parchment paper, no it isn’t technically a tool but it is worth having on hand

The luxury tools that are nice to have but not essential

• Stand mixer It goes without saying that it is undoubtedly on most bakers’ wish lists. Personally, I absolutely love mine, and as a result, I couldn’t imagine doing without it now.
• Silicone baking mats they replace the need to use parchment paper all the time.

I hope you have found these suggestions helpful as you start on your own baking journey. Over time you will expand from this list and tailor it more to your own needs. But these staples will always have a place in any bakers