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Smooth as Chocolate
White Baking Chips
White chocolate helps bloom
the notes of vanilla bean but
doesn’t take over the flavor.
It helps create a luxuriously rich
Swiss buttercream frosting!
Choc-Au-Lait Baking Chips $5 guittard.comVa -Va Vanilla!
Vanilla Bean Paste
Keeping vanilla beans
fresh in your pantry
can be difficult—and
expensive. This paste
packs a wallop of
vanilla bean flavor that
you just can’t get with
imitation vanilla. You’ll
never want to go back.
Nielsen-Massey Pure
Vanilla Bean Paste $29
amazon.comOn the Level
Cake Slicing Tool
If you don’t want to use cake strips, you
can use this nifty slicer tool to create even
layers and flat cake tops for stacking.
Cake Leveler, Small $8 wilton.comLovely Layers
Reusable Cake Strips
Wrap these aluminized fabric strips around
your cake pans to help protect the edges
from browning too quickly. They also help the
cake rise evenly, making for a consistent cake
crumb and less leveling of the layers later.
Wilton Bake-Even Strips $10 /2 wilton.com
Take the Cake
Cake Tin
Keep your gorgeous cake fresh at home—
or tote it to the party—in this vintage-style cake
tin. It has a silicone seal that locks in freshness,
plus the base acts as a built-in cake platter.
Kitchen Craft Living Nostalgia Cake
Storage Tin $26 amazon.com“This cake is
so versatile!
I recently made
a version where
I added lemon
zest and filled
the layers with
raspberries and
lemon curd.
It was a big hit!”