Everyone can bake, you only need a few basic pieces of equipment, but if you love baking and I mean really love baking it really takes over your life, I think about baking 24/7, I watch every programe I can, read every magazine, have a vast collection of cookery books and I love my baking equipment. I seem to have an ever growing wish list for the next pieces I want to buy and I can not wait until Christmas so that I can ask my loved ones to buy me even more. Every pay day the first thing I do is make an order on Amazon for more cookery books and  pop to my local cook shop to buy more equipment.


My latest must have piece comes from George Wilkinson ( http://www.george-wilkinson.com/bakeware/great-british-bakeware ) and is the 8 3/4 inch springform tin, which I test drove making my Son’s 10th Birthday cake. I have in the past brought cheap and nasty tins in bulk from Amazon, but they don’t last very long and were not of a very high quality and boy did the cakes stick to them, however well I greased and lined them, you do really get what you pay for.


My new George Wilkinson one is so fantastically non-stick, it has a ceramic reinforced triple coating which gives it outstanding non-stick properties, this means cakes just fall out, no banging, no prising, they just come out and it is so well made you just know by the feel of it, the quality of the materials used, that it is going to last you for years and years. You can see why they are confident in giving you a 15 year guarantee. Also luckily for me my favourite cook shop in Reigate ( http://aolcookshop.co.uk/ ) stocks George Wilkinson products. If you want to find your local stockist just go on the George Wilkinson website and they have a stockist locator gadget on there, now that makes things nice and simple. 


So if you fancy having a go and like I said, you do only need a few basic items, but it does help if they are good quality ones and if you are new to this baking malarkey, it is loads of fun and really rewarding, you will have a few disasters along the way, even the best bakers after years of practice still get it wrong sometimes, but it is all worth it when you produce something beautiful.


Here is Delia’s list of what she thinks is the essential cake making kit, notice that she recommends good quality baking tins.
http://www.deliaonline.com/equipment/essential-cake-making-equipment.html