At the nearest Canada bakery supply, you can find the following baking tools:
- Measuring tools. When you shop in a Canada bakery supply store, make sure that you first look for high quality measuring tools. This is a very good investment for you as a baker since in all of your baking; you will surely need the help of liquid and dry measuring cups.
- Half Sheet pans. You need to grab one of those aluminum pans. You can use this in cooking cookies, brownies, sponge cakes.
- Parchment paper. Use the parchment papers to line pans making it easier to clean and wash up.
- Oven thermometer. You need to keep track of the temperature of your pastry inside the oven. Thus, it is important to include in your supply list an oven thermometer. No proper regulation of temperature in the oven usually results to disaster in the kitchen.
- Shot glass measuring cup. This looks like an actual shot glass but has measurements printed outside the glass. This is very useful when measuring tiny amount of liquid.
- Rubber spatula. You can use the spatula in scraping out excess products in a pan. Rubber spatulas can also be used to gently stir ingredients mixed inside pots on top of a stove.
- Bench scraper. The bench scraper is perhaps the baking tool that has multiple uses. You use the bench scrapers in scooping out ingredients and transferring these to bowls. You can also use these in getting the dough that is sticking in your roll out area.
- You need to split the dough. Do not work with the entire dough because this will result in very hard cookies. While working with half of the dough, keep the other one refrigerated.
- Be very careful when choosing baking sheets. It is highly recommended that cookies be baked on shiny, aluminum sheets. The sheets have no sides. These are designed this way so that it will be easier to slide the cookies in the cooling rack.
- Learn the art of greasing your baking sheets. Avoid using butter or margarine when you grease your baking sheets. Use instead cooking spray or if you have available solid shortening, use this.
- Make use of parchment paper. The parchment paper eliminates greasing and helps in browning your cookie.
- Do not make the mistake of overloading your oven with cookie trays.
- Make better brownies and bar cookies by lining your baking pan with aluminum foil and allow a few inches to extend to the side. Grease the aluminum foil lightly. Gently spread the batter on your baking pan; bake the cookies and allow them to cool on the cooling racks.