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1. Supersize your cupcake with a special cake mold.
2. Create desserts that will put the Cheesecake Factory out of business with the right tools.
Get the recipe on The Busy Baker.
3. Make vibrant cakes that don't lose their hue when they come out of the oven thanks to the magic of food color gel.
Get the recipe on Homemade Hooplah.
4. Next get scientific with your food color ratios using the food dye charts from McCormick and Wilton.
Get the recipe on I Am Baker.
5. Finally attempt to make one of those surreal mirror cakes by pouring a solution on your cake over a wire rack and sprinkling it with lustre powder.
Get the recipe on Supergolden Bakes.
6. Feel like a professional baker and use a bench tool and turntable to get the frosting just right.
Get the recipe on Style Sweet Ca.
7. Make all your geeky dreams come true and make a Pikachu cute enough to eat thanks to this mold.
8. Prepare a cake that's out of this world using some basic paintings tools to create the cosmos.
Get the recipe on Sprinkle Bakes.
9. Create a checkerboard cake using this pan for chess and video game lovers alike.
10. Celebrate your own baking and whip up a glittery pennant banner.
Get the recipe on The Sweetest Occasion.
11. Craft the perfect giant doughnut that would make Homer Simpson proud.
12. Get beautifully perfect cake layers worth showing off every time with the help of a leveler and cake stand.
Get the recipe on The Sugar Hit.
13. Say goodbye to messy bags and get serious with this intense frosting tool.
14. Become Vulcan, god of fire, and blowtorch your cake into a delicious work of art.
Get the recipe on the Hungry Rabbit.
15. Turn your cake into a canvas and draw some van Gogh-level squiggles with a frosting pen tool.
16. Put the rest of the bake sale participants to shame and show up with totally extra snow globe cupcakes using some unexpected balloons.
Get the recipe on Alana Jones Mann.
17. Go full Bar Mitzvah and blast your cake with a legit airbrushing tool.
18. Turn your cake into an edible Valentine's Day card with the help of a little modeling chocolate or fondant.
Get the recipe on the The Cake Blog.
19. Get three colors of icing for the work of one with this clever piping tool.
20. Create the rose-covered cake of your dreams with the right piping tools.
Get the recipe on I Am Baker.
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