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Love baking cakes? Or, want to have a delicious dessert at home? You should have some cake essentials at home that will help you bake a tasty cake at home whenever you want. Whether it is about preparing the right batter or decorating the cake, everything holds its importance if you want perfection in homemade cakes.

To help you bake a cake at home whenever you want, we have a list of some cake essentials that you can buy online. Check out this list and enjoy baking and decorating cakes at home.

Whether you are preparing a chocolate cake, black forest cake or red velvet cake at home, you will have to add cocoa powder to your cake batter. This cocoa powder can be used for preparing a variety of desserts like cakes, puddings, cupcakes, hot chocolate and more. Since this cocoa powder is unsweetened, it will easily go well with almost all your dessert requirements.

If you want to give a professional look to your cake and make it taste sweeter, you will have to use whipping cream for icing. You just need to add water or milk to the powder as directed and whisk it well to prepare soft and fluffy whipping cream for cakes. Besides cakes, you can even use it for thickening mocktails in no time. Besides this vanilla flavour, you can even find whipping cream in various other flavours to shop for as per your needs.

If you want to save time in giving a professional look and enhancing the flavour of your chocolate cake, you should have chocolate syrup as a cake essential at home. This ready to use syrup has to be spilt over the cake surface before dropping sprinkles to give a smooth and shiny look to your cake. Since this chocolate syrup has a sweet chocolaty flavour, you need not worry too much about combining the flavour with the flavour of your cake. You can even use this syrup with shakes, brownies, cold coffee and more.

For those who are baking a cake at home from scratch, baking powder is a cake essential to have at home. Not just cakes, this baking powder is needed for baking bread, muffins, brownies, cookies and more. You can even use this baking powder for preparing naans, kulchas, papdi and other Indian bread variants. Just make sure that you add the right amount of baking powder to your batter and whisk it well to prepare fluffy cake whenever you want.

When you are baking cakes or cupcakes at home, you will have to use food colouring to give a professional look to your treats. This pack of 10 food colouring liquids will meet all your baking needs to bake plenty of delicious desserts by combining different essences and colours. These food colouring liquids are highly concentrated. So, a few drops of liquid colouring will be sufficient to give the desired colour to your cake. Just make sure that you close the lid of each container properly to retain the true colours.

If you want to enhance the look of your homemade cake, you can easily decorate it using cake sprinkles. These sprinkles can be topped over sauces and whipping cream giving you plenty of options for customizing the look of your cake. These sprinkles have to be stored in an airtight container and are easy to use. Available in various flavours and designs, you can choose the ideal pack of cake essentials as per your needs.

Whether you are baking cakes, cupcakes or cookies, it is hard to miss choco chips if you are a chocolate lover. This pack of dark chocolate chips can easily go well with all your baking and decorating needs. So, you can give a professional touch to your homemade cakes. These chocolate chips are to be stored in a refrigerator in an airtight container. The shelf life of these chips is 9 months from the date of manufacturing.

For those who do not want to assemble all the ingredients while baking a cake at home, there is always an option to go for instant cake mixes. This pack of cake mixes is suitable for baking in an oven and is a delight for chocolate lovers. You just need to add water, eggs and oil to the powder as per the instructions on the packaging to easily prepare the cake batter whenever you want. Just make sure that you follow the baking instructions properly to get the perfect texture of the cake.

If you want to give a smooth finishing to your cake while serving it, you can take the help of a cold glaze. This pack of neutral cake glaze can be mixed with food colouring and extracts to customize it as per the flavour of your cake. You can use this glaze in combination with berries, fresh fruits, chocolates and more.

For finishing your cake just before serving, you can easily sprinkle some icing sugar over it to give it a professional look. This pack of icing sugar is great for all your cake baking needs. This icing sugar is available in the form of a form powder that will give a little shine and professional touch to your cake in no time. The shelf life of the pack is 12 months from the date of manufacturing.

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