Equipment

Make the best ever cakes...

Whisks, good-quality baking trays, sieves and scales: there are quite a few elements to cover if you’re kitting your kitchen out for cakes! Delia demystifies it all...

• Cake kit: what do you need?

Pastry: don’t panic!

Many people seem to think there’s some dark art to making light, buttery pastry, but if you follow Delia’s advice on cutters, rolling pins, scales, sieves and more we promise you can’t go wrong!

• Your pastry-making essentials

Jams and jars

Preserves are really satisfying to make but you do need certain items of equipment to ensure success (plus Delia’s wonderful recipes of course!). Find out more about preserving pans, jars and thermometers here.

• Perfectly preserved