What Are Your Top 5 Cake Decorating Tools?
Decorating By jg21410 Updated 16 Sep 2012 , 1:03am by Wildgirl
i love to bake, but i am just starting out with the decorating aspect. last night i made my first fondant cake (pictured in my avatar) and clearly i do not have the proper tools, as i was very frustrated and had to imprvise a lot. so please tell me what tools make the cake decorating process a little easier for you and why? thanks everyone!
An ordinary table fork (or occasionally a spoon), and a bowl, for making the frosting.
A small frosting spatula that's at least 40 years old, maybe over 50.
Ordinary zip-top bags (storage or freezer weight, NOT sandwich weight), for use as piping bags.
A writing tip and a coupler.
(That comes out to 6, but like Bullwinkle Moose, I'm a heavy tipper.)
i do not have the proper tools...
Proper pastry bags and parchment paper bags, multiples of most used tips, a proper turntable, a Dexter-Russell icing spatula, and perhaps an assortment of colored foil rolls for covering presentation boards.
Your chalkboard cake is adorable!!!
There is a LOT of information on this same topic on a thread on the Wilton product forum. Here is the link:
http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=164136
6 qt. KA mixer with Beater Blade
Several small offset spatulas
Multiple heavy duty large cooling racks (for turning out cakes)
Multiple Ateco "baking cores" (flat, stainless steel, non- pointed things that look like, but are NOT flower nails) for even baking of layers.
Hot knife ( heated X-acto knife sold at Michaels & Joanns) for cutting foamcore cake boards
Rae
Offset spatula, fondant smoothers, Xacto knife, pastry cutter, and extra small scissors (cuticle-type). Those are a basic need. A set of fondant modeling tools would be next on my list.
The chalkboard came out great . 
Hmmm Top five,
A piece of acetate , for smoothing my fondant.
a pizza wheel, to trim fondant from the cake
My plastic sheets that I roll out with.
Drinking straws , I use these for all sorts of modelling and even for dowelling smaller cakes.
My tilting turntable
ONLY 5 ??? 
(this is just to get to the fondant stage!)
1. Agbay
2. Tall stainless 90' scraper for ganaching
3. Turntable
4. Large wooden rolling pin - with ball bearings in handles??
5. piece of acetate
A bench scraper that is a clean 90 degree angle at the bottom: ] rather than one that is curved or has a handle that lifts the edge of the scraper away from the board.
Rae
Oooohhhh it's sooo hard to limit it to just 5 things!!
Most have already been mentioned:
small off-set spetulas
many, many different tips
8", 10" & 12" pastry bags & parchment triangles
the bench scraper mentioned above
Wilton's "Big tip" aka: quick icer tip ( do mostly b'cream cakes)
Yeah 90 foot scraper!! bwahaha - we build BIG cakes here in Oz
Nup - just joshing! it IS in fact a 90degree one - the BEST thing for getting your ganache straight AND smooth - and also helps us get those razor sharp edges!
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