I know I said that I didn't want much for my birthday, but today I stumbled across this AMAZING cake decorating supply site. Originally, when I had a look around the site, I assume that it was American (thus placing all of it's amazing products afar, far out of my reach due to enormously ridiculous p&h fees), but after awhile I realised that it was in Australia!
hurrah!
And on top of this, they ship anywhere in Australia for $10, up to three kilos!!! -sigh-. pure, total happiness.
By the way, in case you were wondering, the site is CakeDeco.com.au.
They have some seriously awesome stuff on there.
I've been drooling over these choice kitchenery items...
A Collapsible Cupcake and Cake carrier..... I saw this on an American site the other day and it looked awesome! And they have it here, in Australia!! Oh pure, pure joy.
This Wilton's Dessert Decorator looks like it would making icing and decorating cake's and cupcakes a breeze. Since I'm a mega-noob at icing things prettily (and sooo want to be able to do it properly), this would be awwwesome. I've tried the pipe-bag method before, but .. it didn't go down all that well. (this could be because i bought crappy cheap bag + the icing I made was properly too runny..) but really, WHO KNOWS? I know, i'm a victim to capitalism, better products will totally make my life better.. *cough*
the most glorified kitchen item of all... the kenwood stand mixer. At a cool $700.00 AUD, I think it's pretty shiny-ness makes it oh-so-alluring. I don't know how much I'd *really* use it though.. My mum bought one ages ago (a similar brand) and she *NEVER* uses it unless she's making a cheesecake. I also do really like mixing things by hand. But I do also have a pair of electric beaters (I was so excited when I bought them, FINALLY I could make lemon delicious, souffle's and whip meringues and cream..).
I also really want a baker/pastry blade. I know you can buy them at King of Knives (they had something similar on cakedeco.com.au, but not exactly what I was after..) and I"m not sure of its technical name .. But I could use it to easily cut butter and brownies and cakes, as well as use it for a scraper (for scraping things. obviously. duh.)
Cakedeco.com.au also have all manner of brownie accessories (pans, cutters, hand held batter blender, tins..) oh, all kinds of things.
Another cool thing I've seen at cakedeco.com.au and also I saw them in Cherrybrook Alfresco Emporium are these amazing metal bundt pans that have these really amazing intricate designs on them. You can make all kinds of shaped cakes, like, a rose cake, or a train cake, a castle cake... all sorts of things.
You can check out some of their range on their site. Some of the stuff I was talking about is listed in their Bundt Pro-Cast Bakeware - Core Basics page and there are more on their Platinum Collection Cast Aluminum Bundt Bakeware - Core Basics.
You can also find them on the cakedeco.com.au site.
Although these look amazing, already I can see three (or maybe four..) problems I would have with these bundt tins.
1. You couldn't line the pans with foil or baking paper. It just... it just wouldn't work. And I like lining my tins with paper or foil before I bake away because it's easier to clean, the cake lifts right and peels really easily off the foil/paper.
2. You'd have to super grease the tin before pouring a cake mix in and what if the cake batter didn't align properly with the tin? It would be misshapen. On top of that, I can easily see how tins with such intricate design would accidentally break off smaller parts of the cake when removing (especially without step one.) That would be annoying as well as totally ruin the whole point of the tin.
3. How do you ice these cakes? I guess you don't always ice bundt cakes, but it would be nice to have the option. Even dusting with icing sugar or cocoa would probably distract from the original design. This takes away from any creativity you may have when making cakes (which I think is half the fun...)
Finally, I think it would annoying having this cake tin. It's expensive, and I like to get my money's worth out of my kitchen's utensils. But I mean, how often are you *really* going to be making a cake shaped like a rose or a castle or a train? Even if you make cakes routinely (which I often do, for church), it loses it's special-ness if you're always making the same design. Anyway, that's just my thought on those tins, as awesome looking as they are..
Another thing that would be useful, would be a shopping trip to Kathmandu. I'm planning for a trip to Japan in Feb and it's going to be freeeeeezing. I'm going to be there for a whole month, so I'm going to need some cool travelling stuff (since I'm planning on taking my backpack) and some stuff to keep me seriously warm!>
Hm, I suddenly feel very tired. I was out with the boyf getting chicken and lamb souvlaki for dinner (joyy.) but consequently am now very.very.very full. We got a litre of french vanilla ice-cream from the shops with the intention of going home for dessert with brownies, but am now waaay too fulllll =)
gooodnight bloggerland. xo
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