New: Fat Daddio's 2012 Bakeware

Fat Daddio's Flat Bottom Mixing Bowls

We added to Chef Tools last Thursday a host of new bakeware by Fat Daddio’s. Fat Daddio’s has always been a bakeware innovator, but they’ve introduced a couple of new products this year that are particularly exceptional. My favorite is the line of flat bottom mixing bowls: they don’t move or rock like round bottom bowls, and they’re super easy to use with spatulas (also, if you buy a couple of different sizes, they stack on top of each other really well). 

Here are some other highlights from the new 2012 Fat Daddio’s line:

Silicone Veiners (molds) in multiple shapes

Silicone veiners: Use these veiners – or, more simply, molds - to form beautiful fondant shapes quickly and easily. Simply press your fondant into this mold and remove. The silicone is naturally nonstick, so your shape will release easily every time. Made of durable, FDA-approved silicone. 

3-Cup sifter: Perfectly sift your dry ingredients with this sifter. A squeeze handle operates it, so you can sift with one hand.  This design also reduces tension on the sifting blades, which means this sifter will outlast others – no more sticking (or stuck) sifting blades.

Silicone string molds: Ever see a professional wedding cake outlined with pretty little fondant pearls? Now you can do that at home. Simply add a thin rope of fondant to this mold and squeeze shut. You're left with a string of beautiful pearls. Comes in a variety of sizes and shapes, too (pearls, roses, braided rope). 

Balloon whisk (multiple sizes): These are the most solid, comfortable whisks ever produced. Fat Daddio's manufactured these whisks in response to customer requests for a better, higher-torque mixing tool - the result is an entirely new design, with a solid core handle and solid, easy to clean stainless steel blades.

Fat Daddio's Confectionary Funnel

Confectionary funnel: Reenact “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” in your home kitchen with this incredible tool. This machine doles out perfectly sized drops of chocolate, ganache, jelly or any food. Simply fill this funnel and dispense by depressed the lever with your thumb. A stainless steel piston pushes out fillings evenly and quickly. Perfect for garnishing plates, filling chocolates, or portioning out melted chocolate. Includes a stand and tips for decorating. Does not include Oompa Loompas.

Check out all the new Fat Daddio’s products at ChefTools.com!

Mad Bakeware: Fat Daddio's Mad Dadder Cake Pans

Image from Colette's Cakes

What!? That cake looks crazy! It’s so tilted and delicious looking that I’m getting dizzy! 

It’s called a Mad Hatter cake, a style popularized by baker Colette Peters of Colette’s Cakes. It totally broke the cake mold (pun!) and I don’t see how anyone could go back to baking regularly-shaped cakes after seeing this. 

And now, thanks to Fat Daddio’s Bakeware, you can make a Mad Hatter cake at home. Fat Daddio’s has constructed a pan that bakes tilted cakes that can be stacked to create the Mad Hatter cake effect. The closest object I can compare it to - and this is not meant to be appetizing – is a pool: one end is shallow, one end is deep, which creates a kind of right triangle with its top cut off.

The innovation with Fat Daddio’s Mad Dadder pans is that it comes with a stand to hold up the shallow end so that cakes bake up level. These pans come in square and round shapes and in 4 different sizes (6, 8, 10 and 12 inches). 

The Mad Dadder. Notice the stand on the left that keeps the pan level.

Buy one pan and you can use frosting to illustrate different tilted layers (good for creating a Cat In The Hat hat cake). But even better, buy several different sizes and you can stack the cakes up like a pyramid, creating that wonderful whirling effect. 

Square, round and rectangle cakes have had their day. They are bland (not in taste, just the way they look), staid, old news.  Buy a Mad Dadder pan (or pans) and start having fun with your cake and eat it, too.

Fat Daddio's Bakeware

Fat Daddio's Round Cake Pan

What's so great about Fat Daddio's bakeware you ask? Well, there are many reasons a Fat Daddio's pan is a good investment. The first reason is because each and every piece of Fat Daddio's bakeware comes with a lifetime warranty. The second reason is because Fat Daddio's bakeware is made with anodized aluminum. When aluminum goes through the anodizing process it comes out completely sealed with a smooth, scratch-resistant surface that ensures there is no cross-contamination. The anodizing process also prevents aluminum from leaching into your baked goods, which is very important. Another reason Fat Daddio's bakeware is a good investment is because of the way it evenly bakes your cakes, cupcakes, cookies and confections. Each cake pan, cookie sheet and cupcake/muffin pan are precision engineered for exceptional baking performance and durability. Fat Daddio's bakeware is also dishwasher safe, which makes clean-up a breeze. Shop all Fat Daddio's bakeware HERE