spoons, etc. You’d need a tool box or utensil bag to carry everything For the Culinary Desserts 1 class you need an 18" pastry bag and #6 star and plain tip, a scale, pastry brush, scrapers, etc. They give you the full list...

Hmm, how many pampered chef parties I have been to... long stainless cylindrical bread pans so bread comes out shaped like flowers and hearts perogie maker (rectangular piece of plastic with half holes where you put the dough on...

've also made a few terrible (and costly) mistakes: 1) The marble-topped pastry workbench. It looked lovely, and was quite useful at first. It’s a few inches lower than the counter, for better leverage when kneading dough,...

kitchen aid mixer (depending on how much you want to spend), slap of marble for rolling dough, chocolate, etc., or you could get a bunch of different things – microplane, french rolling pin, silpat

In this area...I tend to go for icy novelties, so I am not sure if you would include it in the ice cream realm. But, cherry Marino’s Italian Ices. Which must ONLY be eaten with the little wood scraper you get. And then half...

local Asian market, I find it’s in constant use. A vegetable scraper — not an essential if you’re good with that paring knife, but nice to have, and cheap. Don’t know what-all your zester gets up to, but I...

My biggest tip is probably a no-brainer, but I use my bench scraper to scrape every thing off into the trashcan before I wipe my counters. It saves SO much time. -Becca

. Thought about stainless, butcher block, concrete, formica, soapstone, tile and ended up with granite which, while I fear it will become the dated avocado green of the 00s, is easy to clean, durable and I can roll dough out...

. Particularly bad with 2 small children in the house.) If anybody who is going to be using this kitchen is a baker – a marble, granite or even stainless steel “baking station” is nice – provides a cool...

(s) of choice and whir into a frozen drink in about a minute, maybe 90 seconds. The frozen slurry is then dumped back into the cup. No sticking, no leaking, no plunging a scraper into the pitcher, the thing just works. Clean up is...

When making bread dough in a stand mixer, mix all the ingredients until just combined (about 1 minute or so) and let it sit lightly covered with plastic wrap for 20-30 minutes. This is called an autolyse stage and is used by a...

I want restaurant gift certificates, because I have a harder time dropping a decent amount of dough on a nice meal out than I do on say, a nice pan. Ooh, and I also want sheets of parchemnt paper (in case Santa is listening)...

-baking oven. This person has experimented with results with pre-made dough: http://www.greeneggers.com/archives//2006/messages/310264.htm http://www.greeneggers.com/archives//2006/messages/328710.htm...