Anyone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen and loves to cook various sweet dishes must have cream attachments in their arsenal. What are these simple devices for? This is worth talking about in more detail.
Cream attachments are a special tool that every true chef should have. Its purpose lies in the name itself. Indeed, we are talking about objects with the help of which the master creates real masterpieces from pastry cream. It is difficult to imagine a cake or a delicious pastry without the usual decoration. Usually, cream attachments are used as an addition to a bag or bag. In this case, it doesn't matter which of them is used for work. Both of them play the role of a reservoir in which the prepared sweet mass is temporarily placed. The cream tips are shaped like a cone with two holes. One of them has a larger diameter and is designed to secure the device to the tip of a syringe or bag, and the second will have to give the prepared mixture a certain shape.
The following types of attachments are known in cooking:
There are also attachments for creating special effects. Holes in them are made to obtain a specific pattern (heart, Christmas tree, cross and others). There are also products that are specifically designed for left-handed people.
Very often in the work of a pastry chef, the "Tulip" nozzle for cream is used. This unique product allows you to create a finished bud on the surface of the cake in one move.
The secret lies in the fact that the outlet is made in the form of a plate with an original section. Passing through special slots, the mass is divided into separate layers, each of which takes on a certain shape. In a flower made in this way, the core and petals are clearly traced. In the central part of the nozzle, there are usually several round holes, which then end into small stamens, and the side slots can be of different shapes. Depending on the number of slots, there can be from three to six pieces. With the help of such a nozzle, even a novice pastry chef can create a real masterpiece. There are several types of such devices, which differ from each other in the unique location of the slots. Each of them is assigned a number from 1 to 13.
Every good specialist always has his own tools for the job. Without them, it is difficult to achieve the desired result. Therefore, any pastry chef usually has a bag for cream with attachments. You can buy this set at any hardware store.
Most professionals don't like working with a syringe. They prefer the piping bag. With this simple device, it is possible to more accurately apply the decor to the surface of the finished baked goods. These products can be of different sizes depending on the amount of product used. It is clear that in the case when only 100 grams of cream is required, it is foolish to take a bag with a capacity of 1 liter. Residual material will interfere with work and the drawing may not work. In addition, you should be aware that bags are also disposable and reusable. This one is very convenient as it is not easy to clean. It is easier to throw away the used product and take a new one for further work. Although some confectioners have a different opinion on this matter.
To properly decorate the surface, you must follow the basic rules for working with plastic masses. First you need to pay attention to the piping bags themselves.
Cream tips should be put on the outside of them, not inserted from the inside. This guarantees protection against unwanted movement and allows the drawing to be completed correctly. It must also be remembered that fabric is a rather fragile material, therefore gaps can form at the joints, and this, accordingly, will affect the quality of work. The cream will seep through them and drip onto the surface to be decorated. To avoid such misunderstandings, it is better to use special clamps. They will block the points of contact between the fabric and the attachment and create a natural barrier for the liquid mixture. It should also be remembered that the cream has the ability to melt at elevated temperatures. Therefore, you need to work in a cool or well-ventilated area. In addition, all actions must be done quickly so that the mass in the pastry bag does not heat up from the heat of the hands. But this, as a rule, only comes with experience.
Modern devices help housewives to get beautiful patterns and flowers on cakes, intricate and exquisite cookies, meringues, meringues, etc. One of the most popular among them is the confectionery syringe. With its help, you can complicate the design of baking, resulting in a real masterpiece that will surprise both family and friends. The main thing is to decide on the best version of the product, which will completely suit you with the dimensions, body, capacity and nozzles included in the kit.
By such a device is meant a product used to create decorations for cakes and all kinds of baked goods. In appearance, such a syringe is similar to an ordinary medical one. Using a pastry syringe to make cookies is simple:
As for decorating the cake, here you need some skills. For patterns, use a round nozzle with a carved edge, and for inscriptions, use smooth tubes. There are special beveled nozzles for creating leaves, and beveled tubes for roses. Before using any of the confectionery syringe attachments, be sure to make some trial decorations on paper. This will help you find a comfortable hand position and determine the correct consistency.
You can make a culinary syringe with your own hands, but it is better to choose and buy a suitable factory-made product with a large number of attachments of different shapes, which will last more than one year. You can order it in a specialized online store with mail delivery to Moscow, St. Petersburg or another city in Russia. At the same time, there is an opportunity to save a lot, because outlets often offer discounts as part of sales.
There are many different devices of this type on the market, from the simplest cheap to professional expensive ones. The principle of operation is identical for everyone. When choosing, start from the frequency of use and purpose. The baking syringe is divided into the following types:
If you are looking for an inexpensive confectionery tool that makes it easier and faster to decorate gingerbread, cookies, biscuits, pies, desserts, sandwiches, and more, then take a closer look at the product from Mayer & Boch. Instead of a body, he has a bag made of dense fabric. It is designed for placing and squeezing out various creams, mainly for decorating cakes, pastries. In the set, along with the product itself, there are 5 metal nozzles with different profiles and sections:
If you are planning to buy a culinary syringe with attachments at a low cost, then pay attention to Travola 137285734. The product is suitable for decorating pies and desserts with custard or cream, filling donuts with jam:
For the cream, you can choose a model with a sleeve (bag) body Attribute Viva Gray. Despite the low cost, it can be useful:
The dough syringe will become a real assistant in the kitchen for any housewife. A good choice is the Tescoma dough press. Instead of a piston, the product is equipped with a handle with a lever, which makes it possible to work with dough with a denser consistency. Each push of the lever delivers the next batch of dough with minimal effort on your part. The shape of the future baking is set by the press circle attachment. Made of durable plastic, the product is comfortable and durable:
A good option would be a product from the German company Westmark, which is a leader in the production of kitchen goods. At a low cost, the device has good durability:
The Metaltex "DolceForno" plastic syringe stamp is no less attractive option for speeding up the process of baking gingerbread, biscuits and much more. The discs are made of steel, and the body of the device is transparent:
A pastry gun for professionals is expensive, but it has improved strength properties and great functionality. Alternatively, you can be satisfied with a professional product from the Italian company Paderno. The product is made of high quality stainless steel with a mirror polish. A rich set will help you create jewelry of varying complexity:
Another set of high quality stainless steel from Kuchenprofi (Germany). The product is cheaper than many of its counterparts:
Silicone kitchen appliances have become widespread in recent years. One of them is Facemile, a convenient and inexpensive product ideal for baking. More about product parameters:
Marmiton is another simple silicone option that every housewife can afford. The product is relatively compact and lightweight:
Devices made of metal are durable and durable. Most metal cooking syringes have plastic parts, i.e. they are a kind of combined version. Reliable pastry attachment from Bekker:
Gefu is a confectionery device with a metal (aluminum) body, which is suitable for squeezing out various creams and more. Thanks to the special design, portions can be accurately measured and placed directly on the baking sheet:
This confectionery fixture with a set of Fanyi nozzles has a body made of aluminum. The package bundle is rich, tk. the set, in addition to the device, includes two dozen attachments:
Some pastry syringes are so multifunctional that they can be used to squeeze out not only dough or cream, but even pate, butter, processed cheese. There are dozens of models of dispensers on sale that can be used for industrial purposes. One of the popular devices is the Confimec RP-15S:
To save on buying a syringe dispenser, look for companies that often hold promotions - a good opportunity to buy confectionery tools for several thousand rubles cheaper. Another powerful dispenser:
An easy way to decorate baked goods in a short time is to use the “Confectioner Plus” electric confectionery device. It will help you fill muffins, bagels, donuts, etc. with sweet filling. Once you get used to this device, you will feel like an experienced artist and can turn any pastry into culinary masterpieces. The product fits perfectly in the hands thanks to its ergonomic design:
"Master +" is a more capacious, but also expensive confectionery syringe, powered by 4 batteries. The clever design is equipped with a comfortable handle:
First of all, pay attention to the material of manufacture. Plastic confectionery syringes are lightweight, inexpensive, but short-lived. It will be better if plastic is combined with stainless steel. You can make a drawing or an inscription with silicone analogs almost without pauses, because it is possible to control the amount of cream or cream thanks to the transparent body. Silicone is not afraid of temperature changes and does not absorb odors. The most durable pastry syringes are made of stainless steel, but work with them requires some effort.
As for the volume, it fluctuates between 0.2-2 liters. Small items are ideal for decorating cookies or cakes. Large ones are not as easy to use, but they are great for doing large amounts of work. A universal option is considered a device with a volume of 1 liter, which can be used to decorate a medium-sized cake without a break for refueling. As for the number of attachments, the more, the better.
Working with cream is an obligatory part of every pastry chef's workdays, because the cream is included in most desserts. Quality cream tools ensure perfect application of the cream and largely determine the appearance of the final sweet product.
What tools are included in the minimum set of any pastry chef, and what functions are assigned to them, you will learn from this article.
In any delicacy, not only taste is important, but also appearance. That is why confectioners and cooking enthusiasts try to decorate their products, give them an original shape. A pastry bag is used to create beautiful and unusual culinary masterpieces. It is used not only by professionals, but also by housewives, since decorating cakes with a pastry bag makes it easy to create unusual patterns and volumetric molds that will impress everyone, and not only those with a sweet tooth.
A professional piping bag is much more functional than a homemade one and delivers a spectacular result. The bag for cream with attachments gives the most possibilities, but there are also simpler devices. For example, the cheapest are disposable piping bags, which come in various shapes and sizes.
The main advantage of the disposable bag is that it does not need to be washed. But reusable can be used for a long time. The most common silicone piping bag is easy to clean and can be trimmed to reduce size if needed. There are also fabric bags impregnated with a special composition. They are also available in a large assortment and differ little in their properties from silicone ones. Different cream tips are suitable for both types of products.
Pastry bag attachments allow you to create beautiful products from:
There is also a perforated cooking bag for cream. This is a disposable product with perforations, thanks to which it does not break when not too thick dough or cream is applied. They are sold with a sealed tip, which is subsequently trimmed to fit the attachment.
Each of these bags has its own advantages, which is why there is such an assortment. All of them are designed to work with not too thick materials, unlike syringes, but the size of the patterns and the shape mainly depends on the particular bag and nozzle. All you need to do is try different gadgets and choose the one that is most convenient for you.
The cream spatula allows you to evenly distribute the creamy mass, icing over the surface of the cake. Spatulas of various shapes, handle angles and sizes are suitable for processing the tops and sides of baked goods.
Using a metal spatula, you can create a flat surface on the confection for the subsequent application of mastic, cream decoration.
The tool is indispensable for greasing finished baked goods with whipped cream, jam, chocolate icing. The working part of some models of blades is equipped with holes that allow excess cream to seep out.
For the manufacture of such tools, heat-resistant food-grade silicone is used, due to which the confectionery spatula is suitable for use in conditions of high and low temperatures.
The material does not absorb the aromas of food, the edges of the device will not damage the surface of the dishes sensitive to mechanical stress and will not stick to it, do not get confused and do not delaminate over time.
The accessory will allow you to evenly apply and distribute the cream, icing, jelly, cut off the casserole and soft pie. Due to its small flexibility, such a spatula can easily collect the last drop of product residues from any dish.
A confectionery palette knife, which looks like a construction trowel, is presented in various shapes, sizes and is suitable for working with chocolate, mastic, marzipan.
With the beveled tool, you can lift large pieces of pastry shapes. The palette knife allows you to knead the ingredients of creams, to give them the desired relief on the surface of any baked goods.
A spatula-palette knife with a wavy, serrated working side allows you to get a certain effect when applying cream or icing to the cake.
With the help of trapezoidal, oval, toothed scrapers, they give a complete look to various confectionery products, decorating the top or side surface greased with cream.
Confectionery scrapers are made of plastic or metal. Metal is considered to be a more valuable material due to its durability, its use allows you to achieve a smoother and more even effect when decorating, but such a tool is more expensive. Plastic scrapers are more affordable.
There are also type-setting scrapers, the resulting relief is determined by the order in which the individual elements are installed.
Pastry syringe, press pistol, cloves to create cream flowers - these tools for decorating cakes with cream are still the mainstay of confectionery production.
A confectionery syringe with nozzles is indispensable when you need to decorate products with flowers, borders, lace, patterns and inscriptions. Using the same tool, you can put cookies on a baking sheet (for example, in the form of roses), fill eclairs with cream, and serve mashed potatoes beautifully. A variety of attachments makes it possible to create the most realistic decor - with petals, leaves, weaving, stars and more. A distinction should be made between a cream syringe and a test syringe, the latter is often more voluminous, with a large hole diameter. A syringe is considered more practical than a pastry bag, the cream is fed from it evenly, so creating patterns and flowers using a syringe is much easier.
Syringes today are made from metal and silicone, each of these materials has its own pros and cons. Metal tools are more reliable and last longer, but it is extremely important that the metal is of high quality and safe for health, does not oxidize. A syringe made of silicone is lighter in weight, safer, but it has a shorter life.
The pastry press gun works like a syringe, but much more efficiently. In fact, this is a powerful syringe dispenser and at the same time a mold (for cookies, decor), also sold with attachments. The press pistol has an ergonomic handle, due to which the mass is squeezed out of it quickly and easily, saving the pastry chef's time and effort. This tool is usually made of steel or durable aluminum, thanks to which it is reliable, you can even work with tight dough or any dense mass.
Cream tools are very unusual. These include carnations for creating cream flowers, they are sold complete with a tool for removing flowers from a carnation (a cutter or special scissors). Carnations are different in head diameter and shape, heads are flat, concave inward, and also in the form of a hemisphere. This variety allows you to get flowers of different shapes and sizes.
It is very convenient to use carnations in work, because they can be rotated, creating several layers of petals for flowers, neat and very beautiful, realistic. You can plant the decor from the cream with a syringe and a pastry bag with a nozzle, remove the finished flowers using a cutter.
How to make flowers from cream in this way, you can learn from the following video:
With the help of a pastry syringe, even an inexperienced pastry chef can steal cake, pastries, pies or sweets. Purchase a syringe with several types of nozzles, this accessory has a lot of possibilities.
The thinnest straight-cut nozzle allows you to write with cream, sugar paste or chocolate. She can draw a variety of patterns that resemble lace, flower stalks, and create chocolate monograms.
For decorating the edge of the cake, an oblique nozzle is indispensable. It can be used to make cream borders. With the help of the wedge-shaped nozzle, it is easy to draw flower leaves and petals. Star-shaped tips are also very popular. With a fine nozzle, you can make stars from cream, borders and curly dots. A large one is useful for setting cookies, for example, meringues.
To make your jewelry beautiful, make the right cream. You can use a custard or protein option, or a well-whipped heavy cream. However, the most popular is thick butter cream, with its help you can create designs of any complexity - from a modest border to real cream flower beds.
You will need: - 100 g of sweet butter; - 4 tablespoons of condensed milk; - a few drops of vanilla extract; - food colorings.
Mash the butter and beat with a mixer along with vanilla essence and condensed milk. You should have a fluffy homogeneous mass that holds its shape well.
Divide the cream into portions and add some food coloring to each portion. Whisk the mixture well until the color is uniform.
Select the desired nozzle, put it on the pastry syringe. Use a spoon to fill the container with the cream. Pack it tightly: if there are voids inside the syringe, you can ruin the decoration.
Try decorating a traditional round cake. Cover its surface with fondant or chocolate icing, against such a background creamy decorations look especially impressive.
Before you start creating decorations, sketch out a sketch on paper, and then carefully outline the lines on the surface of the cake; it is convenient to do it with a toothpick or a needle
Start with a centerpiece. Try making a bunch of daisies, you can draw them using a slanting attachment. Fill a syringe with pink cream and bring it up to a surface. Holding the syringe slightly at an angle, squeeze out the cream so that it falls in steep, petal-like waves. Moving your hand in a wave-like fashion, move the syringe in a circle, drawing a flower. Draw three large daisies and a couple of buds.
Fill the syringe with green cream and use the fine straight nozzle to draw the stems of the flowers. Change the nozzle to a wedge-shaped one and depict the leaves. Finish the edges of the cake last. Place the stars with white cream, forming a beautiful border. Draw them using the star cut attachment.
How to use a piping bag (or bag)? First, insert the attachment into the bag, and then cut off the tip. To prevent the filling from "running away" while filling the bag, push it into the hole of the nozzle. To fill the bag properly, place the bag over your hand to prevent the outside of the bag from getting dirty. Hold it on your hand with confidence, fill the bag with a scraper or spatula. It will be enough if the package is one third or one half full. Next, push the filling closer to the nozzle.
How to hold a pastry bag correctly, how to use it confidently? You need to take the package in your hand, with your palm and fingers feeling it. Secure the free end around your thumb, push the filling through the nozzle, and scrub it against the edge of the bowl. Thus, you will release excess air from the bag and it will be ready for use.
Next, let's look at how to use a piping bag with attachments and make beautiful decorations on the cake. When the bag is ready for use, press on it only with the hand in which you are holding it, and with your free hand you can hold and guide the nozzle. To make an ornament with a beautiful ponytail, you need to press on the bag, and then stop and lay the ponytail on its side. If you need to plant a product in the form of a shell, for example, when making marshmallows, you need to press strictly in the center, then stop and make a semicircle lay the tail on its side.
Nozzles for a pastry bag: how to use, types of nozzles. There are a large number of special nozzles for the pastry bag. They are used depending on the type of jewelry. For example, with a smooth round tube, a small pencil, you can plant cookies, apply an ornament or write inscriptions on a cake. With a medium pencil, meringues, mushroom legs, cookies are deposited and ornaments are made from cream. With a large pencil, you can make custard buns, profiteroles, eclairs and meringues.
Also, there are special attachments for a pastry bag, how to use, see video instructions below. They allow you to make flower decorations. There are nozzles: "chrysanthemum", "buds", "rose", "magnolia", etc. We hope you have learned how to use the attachments for a pastry bag correctly and you will be able to cook not only deliciously, but also beautifully.