Chances are you already have many of the essential baking supplies needed to turn out sheets full of cookies, loaves of hot bread and pies made from scratch, but there may a few you’re missing. The key to baking (and cooking in general) lies as much in the recipe and ingredients as the equipment you use.

For Measuring
It doesn’t matter what you bake, your kitchen baking supplies will fulfill the lists of recommend bread baking supplies, cake baking supplies and cooking baking supplies you find. What does matter when it comes to baking, is measuring ingredients as accurately as possible.

First, toss any plastic measuring cups you have on hand and replace them with quality stainless steel. These measuring cups are best reserved for measuring your dry ingredients although there are some bakers who prefer to measure dry goods by volume using a kitchen scale. Weighing your dry goods may require that you do some math, but what you expend in calculations will made up for in terms of accuracy (you can’t pack ingredients too tightly or miss an air pocket when you measure by volume).

When you’re choosing measuring cups, stick with sets that have the fullest measurement even with the rim of the cup so you can level off easily when you're measuring. For liquids, look for Pyrex glass measuring cups in the sizes you think you’ll use most often that have large, easy-to-grip handles and spouts for pouring. In both cases, you’ll want your measuring cups to feature both metric and U.S. measuring units so you don’t have to spend precious baking time converting recipes.

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