Friday, January 22, 2010

Baking Supplies, Baking Ingredients In Bangalore, Baking In Bangalore

I  have found it quite a task to figure out where we can find some not-so-commonly used or known ingredients in Bangalore. This is an attempt to share some information I have gathered so that it can be useful to others. Please do share any relevant information you may have.

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Institute of Baking and Cake Art - 9342825279
  • Edible cake toppers: As in printouts of any image you mail them. You get a ready to use cake topper,just frost the cake and then zap!!! Isn't that cool!!
  • Springform Tins I have never found these before, you bet I bought a 9" pan, am looking forward to bake in it.
  • Variety of Sugar Craft flowers, leaves, a few cartoon character faces, glitter sugar, colored vermicelli(like chocolate vermicelli).
  • Ready to use "Happy Birthday' edible topper. This would be great for the artistically challenged like me or when you are in a hurry, just warm the message and top on the frosting!!
  • Egg less Concentrate: I have never found this before in any other store. Honestly I have no idea how to use it, but bought it any way.
  • Acetate sheets: The kind strips used to give shape to desserts and mousses.
  • Whipping Cream and Powder: Found whipping cream in 1 kg packs. Whipping cream powder available too, haven't tried this before, supposed to be good.
  • Flower and leaf cutters, other tools used for crimping.
  • Dark chocolate, White, Milk compound chocolate and other varieties
  • Chocolate Chips, cake tins, piping bags, nozzles, muffin trays, chocolate molds, pastry brushes, spatulas, icing spatulas, food colors, pie tins and other regular baking stuff.
  • Sparkling sugar, colored vermicelli: In different colors.
  • Silicon Molds: In different shapes and regular small molds.
  • Instant yeast or Rapid Rise yeast
  • Gluten: Used for whole wheat bakes for lightness and texture
  • Digital Kitchen Scales
  • Doughnut Cutters
  • Plunger Cutters: Used for fondant decorations. I have seen only leaf design and in sets of three, flower cutters also supposed to be available.
  • Disposable piping bags
  • Bench scrapers : Used for scraping the dough from the work surface while kneading bread dough.
  • Meringue Powder or Egg white powder: For royal icing decorations, crystallized flowers. 
  • Parchment lined disposable mini loaf pans, brownie boxes.
  • Chocolate, Pineapple emulsions - used for coloring and flavoring cream 
  • Lollipop Sticks / Cake Pop Sticks 
  • Baking Parchment
  • Orange peel
  • Clear Vanilla Essence
  • Cake Gel
  • Strawberry, Apple, Blueberry, Peach filling and Topping
  • Tinned Blackberries, Blueberries,Litchis, Pears, Mango, Pineapple 
  • Paste colors
  • Liquid Glucose
  • Cream Of Tartar
  • Puff pastry sheets - sold only in bulk
Make sure you carry cash as cards are not accepted. 
THEY DO HOME DELIVERY WITHIN BANGALORE BUT NEED THE ORDER TO BE PLACED WELL AHEAD. 
THEY ALSO COURIER WITHIN INDIA. PAYMENT MODE IS BANK TRANSFER.
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Phone number  9342825279. Landline: 080 22106619



Fatima Bakery - Hosur Road
  • Whipping Cream
Shops near KR Market Flyover
  • Normally stock 2 kg packets of whipping cream. I use Rich's non-diary topping.
Shops near KR Market Flyover
  • Whipping Cream Powder 
  • Cake Boards
  • Palette Knifes 
  • Serrated Knifes 
  • Edible Flowers
  • Colored Sprinkles
  • Silver Beads 
  • Piping bags
  • Big nozzles
  • Canned fruit
  • Cake tins in different shapes
Durga Enterprises - Madivala - 25502009
  • Chocolate Chips
  • Dark Cooking Chocolate
  • White Chocolate
  • Canned fruit
Nilgiris
  • Cookie Cutters
  • Self raising Flour
  • Good Quality essences
  • Food Colors
  • Nozzles
  • Some varieties of Cake tins
  • Good Cocoa Powder
Nilgiris - Brigade Road is the best. You can try other outlets too.
SPAR, Koramangala
  • Flaked Almonds
  • Flaked Pistachios
  • Pine nuts 
  • Mascarpone Cheese
Found the above for the first time at this place
Super Market - Brigade Road
  • Rice Paper
  • vanilla pods
I know! The name of the store is Super Market!. Address is Ground Floor, 5th Avenue,183, Brigade Road.Phone: 25581248.
MK Retail - CMH Road Branch
  • Egg Replacer Orgran. This is gluten free as well.- Information courtesy, author of Curry Leaf.
Jamals - Forum Value Mall - Whitefield
  • Bundt pans
  • Muffin trays
  • silicon muffin trays
  • silicon cartoon moulds
  • non-stick bakeware
  • piping bags
  • nozzles
  • and other imported baking stuff
They have branches on MG Road and Sigma Mall on Cunningham Road
Shops on JC Road - near SBI
  • Cake Tin Manufacturers Shops
Shops in Arihanth Plaza - Commercial Street
  • Ramekins - : I found them ramekins with lids of Treo brand
There are about 3-4 shops in the basement. Check at Adams, Shivajinagar too.
General Food Additives Morde Chocolate Chips. Have tried baking the milk chocolate chips, they don't melt when you bake!! Am yet to try the dark chips though.
  • Morde Chocolate strands
  • Milk Compound chocolate
  • Instant Yeast - You get a brand called Gloripan in 100 grams packs . Worth trying out.
  • Demerara  Sugar - 500 grams pack, very reasonably priced.
  • other common baking supplies :  
Address is - PO Box 2016, #175/3, 1st Main Road, Seshadripuram, Land mark - Opp, HDFC Bank, Bangalore 560020, India. Tel : +91-80-2336 7878, 2336 0517 You can view their product list here.


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