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Can anyone in the baking world enlighten me as to what these are before I throw them out. Something to do with cake making/decorating.
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As per Rusty Raven below. The thread on the nail bit is so it can be inserted into a foam block or chunk of bread/tumbler filled with crunched newspaper to hold it securely until the icing sets.
Looks like a piping nail - you use a piping bag to make a flower or something on it, then can transfer it once set to the cake. You hold the nail bit so you can turn it as you pipe.
I had to watch a YT because I could not imagine how it worked lol, but now it makes total sense, thank you!
I find it amazing how much cake decorating has changed from when I was young. When I grew up rolled icing on fruit cake, decorated with delicate piped flowers and lacework, was the norm for things like wedding cakes. It was a process that would take weeks or months to do, painstaking intricate work. Fresh cakes with the buttercream frosting were for children's parties and novelties. It all changed very quickly when the fashion changed to using the wedding cake as dessert instead of something to keep, and the old style fruit cakes disappeared very quickly.
My Nana used to keep wedding and engagement fruit cake in a tin. 2 Questions were needed. Who's wedding/engagement and how long ago? Then you'd put the lid back on.
Thank you. They're going in the bin.
Take them to an op-shop. Rare item there and someone will love them and use them.
Alright then.
My younger cake-decorating self would have loved it - I had a bottle top stuck onto a nail.
I'll take them
Ok