The special equipment for cake decoration is very simple, including large mixer, portable mixer with whipped cream and portable mixer. It is mainly used to whip the pulp and cream of cake blanks. Its function is to whip and inflate the cake blanks or cream by rapid rotation, change its internal physical structure, form a new stable structure, improve the output value and taste, and help stabilize the selection of cake decoration. Most large-scale mixers are used to beat the batter of cake blanks, but some are also used to beat cream and whipped cream. Large-scale mixers are large in size, high in power, large in output and good in stability. If the output value of cake decoration is large, large-scale mixers can be selected, but they are cumbersome and difficult to handle. Small-scale fresh cream mixers are professional whipping equipment with small size, light weight, low power, adjustable speed, low loss and easy to carry, which is more suitable for small stores. Portable whipped cream mixer, its performance is the same as before, its volume is smaller, its weight is lighter, its power is small, its loss is small and it is easy to carry.

There are many kinds of ovens, which are used to bake cakes and bread, and are layered ovens or piller ovens. There are many brands, such as domestic ovens, Taiwanese ovens, Malay ovens, imported ovens, etc. Ovens or baking ovens are important equipment for cooked food, including temperature control devices and water vapor spraying devices.

Professional equipment for cake decoration: it is divided into four parts: refrigerator, air conditioner, decoration spray gun and chocolate melting furnace.

Chocolate melting furnace is a necessary equipment for making and preparing chocolate solution. It is a double-layer water-proof equipment with adjustable temperature, which can be adjusted according to the needs of making chocolate, and the temperature can be controlled between 20- 100 degrees Celsius.

Second, the types of tools

The tools used for cake decoration are generally divided into cutter, blade, flower nozzle, flower bag, brush, flower holder, spray gun, sugar paste, chocolate special tools and other tool models, and their uses are different. The following is a detailed explanation in the study:

1, cutter, blade class:

A) Kissing knife: the main tool for holding cream, and also the necessary tool for plastering, which is divided into long and short, such as 8 inches, 10 inch, 12 inch;

B) Sawtooth knife: there are two kinds of coarse saw-tooth knife and fine saw-tooth knife, with different lengths. The coarse saw-tooth knife can be used to cut cake blanks, and can also be used to smear cakes to make decorative textures on cream surfaces. The fine saw-tooth knife is mainly used to cut cake blanks.

C) Fruit cutter: Fruit cutter is an indispensable tool for cake decoration. In cake modeling and decoration, many decorations are inseparable from fruits. Cutting fruit modeling is an important content and method of fruit cake decoration, and there are many fruit cutters:

D) Cream carving knife, which is borrowed from western oil painting techniques and tools, is very suitable for cake decoration. Its knife shapes are shuttle, square, triangle and arc, and its specifications are various. Cream carving knife can carve landscapes, animals, flowers and birds, figures and plants with rich expressive force and artistic expressive force of shallow relief. The effect is very good.

E) Shovel: Shovel has a flat shovel and an oblique shovel, which are mostly used to make chocolate with sugar-pulling shapes. It can shovel chocolate petals, chocolate flowers and chocolate bars, and can also be used to make chocolate-pulling shapes. Specifications include: 3-inch flat shovel, 1.5-inch flat shovel, 1 inch flat shovel, 1.2-inch oblique shovel, 1.7-inch oblique shovel and 3.5-inch oblique shovel.

F) Carving knife: it is specially used for chocolate carving and modeling. It requires steel knife shape, plastic knife shape, different shapes, matching steel and softness, and obvious professional characteristics. It is an essential tool for making chocolate sculptures.

G) Knife-picking: Knife-picking is a special tool for transferring cakes (including straight knife, heart-shaped knife and triangle knife).

H) According to their uses, the scraper and the supporting piece can be divided into European scraper and ordinary scraper, which are made of iron and plastic. The European scraper has different shapes, which can be generally divided into fine-toothed scraper, coarse-toothed scraper, flat-faced scraper and triangular scraper, which are mainly used to make hand-drawn cake styles and surface decoration scrapers, which is convenient and quick.

2, flower mouth, flower bag:

A) Flower nozzle: The flower nozzle is made by stamping, with stable quality, neat edge, and unstable quality. Generally speaking, it has something to do with the quality brand. The brand with good quality has many years of production experience and quality certification standards, and its representative brand image is well received by practitioners. There are 20 flower nozzles, 30 flower nozzles, 48 flower nozzles and 60 flower nozzles. The brand quality is different, and its technological effect is also great.

The specific use of the flower nozzle: there are various forms of the flower nozzle, and the cream can be used to make edges, flowers, animals and other shapes through the flower nozzle.

B) Switching nozzle: used at the front end of the flower mounting bag to adjust the rotating direction of the flower nozzle and change the middle device of the flower nozzle. It is convenient to use, mostly made of hard plastic, and the specifications are large, medium and small.

C) Flower bag: The flower bag is mainly used to combine the flower mouth and hold the cream. Through the hand grip, the cream is squeezed out through the flower mouth, and the cake surface is decorated and shaped. It can also be used to hold fruit paste and spray the cake surface for decoration. There are two kinds of flower bags: cloth plastic bags and plastic bags. Cloth plastic bags have a long service life, but they are easy to hold glue and have high cost. Plastic bags have a short service life and low cost, and can be used in one time. At present, plastic bags are used in the production of cake houses.

3, fiber, brush, flower stick, spray pen

A) Fiber brush: it is used for cake cream modeling. After the cream at the brush is three-dimensionally shaped and detailed (such as simulating cartoons, animals and figures), it can also be painted with colored fruit paste on the cake, which can draw various plane visual artistic effects, such as western paintings and Chinese paintings.

B) Pen spray: The pen spray consists of three parts: air pump, air pipe and pen spray. Its main purpose is to combine the modeling of other creamy foods, and it is an important tool for color treatment. It is an ideal tool for food coloring by dropping edible elements into the pen color hopper and spraying the color paddle through air pressure. The pen spray is colored on the surface of cream, which is easy to color and has less pigment.

C) Flower stick: The two ends of the flower stick are tapered, which is a professional tool for mounting flowers with a receptacle. There are many shapes of the receptacle, such as traditional flower sticks, Malay flower sticks, English flower holders and chopsticks flower sticks.

4. Mould: Mould is a part of cake decoration and forming equipment, mainly including original cake blank mould, Moss mould, chocolate mould (ice mould, plastic mould and plastic mould), fruit cutting mould and powder screening mould.

A) The original cake blank mold test tray includes movable bottom blank mold test tray, connected bottom mold test tray and Moss mold, which can be divided into round, square, heart-shaped and triangular shapes.

B) Chocolate mold: There are three kinds of chocolate molds: copper ice mold, plastic mold and plastic mold. The molds are divided into female die, male mold, male mold with convex surface and female die mold with concave surface. The mold is the main tool for chocolate forming.

C) Tools for making sugar-mashed chocolate: used for modeling solid raw materials of cake soft body, which are divided into two types: molds and plastic tools. The molds include cutting dies and supporting dies, and plastic tools are tools for shaping body structure.