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      Aprons are handy to help keep your clothes tidy when you are baking.

      Cookie cuers come in all shapes. All-time favorites are buerflies, stars, flowers, and hearts, but use any shape you like.

      Cookie sheets, especially thick, heavy ones, help cookies bake evenly and won’t warp in the oven.

      Small metal icing spatulas are good for spreading frosting on cupcakes and cakes. A piping bag fied with a pastry tip is another way to add frosting or to write fun messages on top of cookies, cakes, and cupcakes.

      An electric mixer makes quick work of baers and frostings, beating egg whites and cream, and more. Always ask an adult for help when using appliances. Use a mixing bowl and wooden spoon or whisk in a pinch.

      Madeleine pans are charming French molds used to create dainty, shell-shaped cakes in a variety of flavors.

      Measuring cups and spoons help you measure your ingredients accurately and easily. Choose graduated sets for dry ingredients and a liquid pitcher for wet ingredients.

      Oven mis or pads protect your hands from hot pans, oven racks, cookie sheets, and baking dishes. Always ask an adult to help when working near a hot oven or stove.

      Parchment paper is paper that’s been treated to give it a nonstick surface. It’s used to line cookie sheets and baking pans so that baked goods won’t stick. If you don't have parchment paper, you can buer the pans and dust them with flour.

      A rubber spatula is helpful for mixing baers and scraping them into pans, like when you transfer the last bits of baer from a bowl to a muffin pan.

      Standard muffin pans, with 12 cups, are used for the cupcake recipes in this book; for some recipes, you’ll need two muffin pans.

       tools o’ nee

      The recipes in this book use a few basic baking tools. There’s no need to go out and buy everything all at once—you can collect tools slowly over time, as you try more and more baking recipes.

      Imagination and a good dose of creativity are the two most important baker’s tools of all.

      Have fun!