Where to Buy Cake Decorating Supplies in Calgary

“Where to get cake decorating supplies and equipment in Calgary?”

Here is a list of the stores that I go to check out in my home town of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Each store is good for certain specific items, and some even offer cake decorating classes:

PM Hobbycraft – http://www.pmhobbycraft.ca/store/

2020J 32 Avenue Northeast, Calgary, AB T2E 6T4, (403) 291-2733

PM Hobbycraft carries everything you need for cake decorating in one spot. They offer many brands and a large selection of supplies: fondant, gumpaste, cake styrofoam dummies, cutters, boards, and more. Their price of glycerin is good, I think $9.99 for a 591 mL bottle, and Americolour airbrush food colors for $3.99. Fat Daddio’s cloth piping bags are a great price here too. Sometimes they are sold out of specific supplies, but if you go back the week after they might have it in.

Michaels – http://www.michaels.com/art/online/home

Gotta get the 40% off coupon before going to Michaels! If you don’t get the flyer with the coupon, you can also print it off online at Flyerland or at MommySavesBig. They carry mostly Wilton Cake decorating supplies, but have also introduced other brands such as Duff’s Buttercream Fondant, which I recommend for it’s ease of use.

Bulk Barn – http://www.bulkbarn.ca/

3508 32nd Avenue NE, Calgary AB, T1Y 6J2, 403-250-1399

Exciting news! A Bulk Barn has just recently opened up in Calgary, and they sell a huge variety of cake decorating supplies and equipment -  cake pans, cake boxes, fondant, sprinkles, and so much more.   They also offer shaped cake pan rentals at $1.99 per day. They are located in NE Calgary, in Horizon Square. You can also get tons of dry ingredients here in bulk. Gotta check it out! Click here for store locator.

Walmart

I noticed that Walmart has recently expanded their cake decorating section to include a greater quantity &  selection of the Wilton brand of cake decorating supplies. In most Walmarts, the cake decorating supplies can be found alongside the craft section.

Homesense – http://www.homesense.ca/en/index.asp

At Homesense,  sometimes I’ll find a real gem! I found great Ateco cutters here for an awesome price (around $10), Silpats, and good bakeware. They also sometimes carry the recommended brands Salter and/or Polder digital scales. (And in my opinion, a digital scale is must have in accurate baking.) It’s a fun place to browse.

SAIT Polytechnic College – http://sait.ca/

SAIT has  the new Market Place – a deli/gourmet style store located in the John Ware building. They also happen to sell some cake decorating and pastry supplies. This is one of the few retail places where you can buy isomalt in Calgary. They also have fondant (I think it was $80 for a 20 lb of Satin Ice), silpats, marzipan, and Lindt chocolate couverture for decent prices.

Other great resources are online websites. These ones are Canadian based:

• Golda’s Kitchen (I got my turntable and airbrush from here. Highly recommended – their site is easier to navigate and the shipping costs for my turntable and airbrush was only about 20 bucks!)
• Flour Confections
• McCall’s
• Cake Mischief (they had good prices for airbrush colors)
• For the Love of Cake Decorating Supplies
• Design & Realisation Inc. (more for baking and pastry equipment. Great price for Silpats.)
• Phat Cat Cake Craft (servicing the BC Okanagan area but does ship to anywhere in Canada)
• Ebay.ca
• Amazon.ca