In pastry stores, the eyes are confused by the wide range of all kinds of devices for working with mastic, so in order not to buy unnecessary, it is better to learn in advance what you need certain tools for.

Confectioners use mastic for such purposes:

• Covering the finished cake to give the surface smoothness or a certain texture (wood, leather, etc.);
• for creating flower compositions (sugar floristics);
• Creating miniature sculptures (people, animals, fairy-tale and cartoon characters).

For each type of decor made of mastic, different tools are used.

So, to cover the finished cake with sugar mass you need to have:

• A rolling pin for mastic (regular or textured);
• silicone mat for rolling out;
• knife;
• and an iron to smooth out the coating to avoid wrinkles.

Sugar floristry uses:

• punch or plungers of flowers or their petals;
• Silicone liners to give the blanks a more natural look;
• a soft mat for thinning the edges of leaves and petals;
• drying tables for drying blanks,
• food wire and artificial stamens;
• brushes with artificial hair.

To mold figures from mastic, you need to buy a set of special tools stacks:

• Dresden stick for depicting facial expressions;
• a stack cone (rounded, flat), which will allow you to make non-cone cone-shaped indentations;
• a “shell” tool for sculpting animal legs, shells, and human hands and feet;
• a stacker-bone to create ruffles on clothing or wavy edges
• a tool with balls on its ends is used to form eye sockets or other circular recesses
• an arc stack to create smiles on the faces of mastic human figures.

In addition to these tools, you will need food coloring to color the mastic, brushes (necessarily with artificial fleece) and food glue to glue the parts of the figurines together.