A cutting wheel in Cake Decorating is a tool used for cutting out or tracing around shapes in fondant, modelling paste, pastillage, marzipan and so on. It is used to help give your cut a nice clean edge, where other tools such as a knife or scapel might drag at the paste or leave a rougher edge.

Probably the most common or at least most well known tool used is the PME Cutting Wheel, it has two different sized wheels that can help you get into those nooks and crannies.

Some of the things you can use it for include cutting a line freehand, cutting out ribbon strips or tracing around a template (sometimes a paper template is all we may have!)

Another option is the Wilton Fondant Cutter embosser that has two cutting wheels and an embosser (which we will cover in another tools series).

But you can also use a pizza cutter, my one here has a straight and wavy edge. The pizza cutters however are quite large and not very dextrious for cutting out letters and the like. But they are good for large squares or ribbons or even cutting the fondant away from the edge of the cake.

As you can see many tools have more than one use!

You can buy a cutting wheel from most Cake Decorating Suppliers in Australia and Internationally, check out our Supplier Directory for your nearest supplier, although you can purchase from many of them online as well!

Remember you are only limited by your imagination! Have you discovered a very cool tool to do the same job, please share it with us by leaving a comment or contacting me through the contact page.