Baking tips: 13 kitchen necessities for any pastry work

Peeking into a baker's pantry is a lot like peeping into someone's refrigerator -- it yields a glimpse of their individuality and personality.

I poked through my own pantry for must-have items and polled other home bakers and local pastry chefs to compile a baker's dozen of items we just can't live -- I mean bake -- without.

Truly telling is what the baker holds most dear. Is it a certain ingredient, a tool, a decoration?
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Click on for tips from pastry chefs across the country and to find out their must-have kitchen tool or ingredient.

13 kitchen necessities for any pastry work

(Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/MCT)

Click on for tips from pastry chefs across the country and to find out their must-have kitchen tool or ingredient.