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Bare Necessities, Electric Gizmos and Extra Added Widgets

Baking equipment tends to be pretty simple. You’ve got your pans, your bowls, your spatulas. Most of the things you need are inexpensive and easy to find. If you’re on a really tight budget, you can shop at secondhand stores and garage sales. If you recently inherited a fortune, you can blow it all at a fancy kitchenware store. Either way, your muffins will turn out just fine.

Bare Necessities

 two 8 or 9-inch (20 or 23 cm) round cake pans

 one 9 x 13-inch (23 x 33 cm) rectangular baking pan

 one 8 or 9-inch (20 or 23 cm) square baking pan

 two 9 x 5-inch (23 x 13 cm) loaf pans

 two 10 x 15 inch (25 x 38 cm) cookie sheets with 1-inch (2 cm) sides

 one muffin pan with 12 cups (or two with 6 cups each)

 one 8-cup (2 liter) bundt or tube pan (approximately 9 inches/23 cm diameter)

 one 9 or 10-inch (23 or 25 cm) springform pan with removable sides

 one or two wire grid cooling racks

 one set of Official Measuring Spoons (imperial or metric or both)

 one set of individual steel or plastic measuring cups (in graduated sizes: ¼ cup, ⅓ cup, ½ cup and 1 cup, or metric equivalents)

 heatproof glass measuring cups (1 cup/250 ml and 4 cups/1 liter)

 mixing bowls — stainless steel or glass — at least 2 really big ones (4 quarts/4 liters) and as many smaller ones as you have room for

 a bunch of small glass or plastic bowls for organizing ingredients

 whisk

 rubber bowl scrapers (spatulas)

 wooden spoons

 flour sifter

 pastry blender (that chopper thingy for making pastry dough)

 pastry brush

 wooden rolling pin

 cookie cutters

 baking parchment paper

Electric Gizmos

 electric mixer — either handheld or countertop model

 blender — traditional or stick type

 food processor

Extra Added Widgets (for the seriously motivated baker)

 pastry bag and decorating tips

 one 10-inch (25 cm) tart pan with removable sides

 one 10-inch (25 cm) two-part tube pan (angel cake pan) with removable sides

 electronic digital scale (to weigh ingredients)