Orblue Pastry Cutter (Pastry Blender)

I like to bake... I used to bake a lot but now I have a child and I don't bake as often. However my little girl loves to help me and she loves muffins. Muffins taste so much better when they have that sweet crumb topping. You know the one... It's got brown sugar, butter 7 flower. Then the recipe says to use a Pastry cutter(also called a Pastry Blender) to make the crumbs. What is a pastry cutter is what I always said. My mom told me to just use to butter knives and it will do the trick. It works but it never comes out perfect. I want the good crumb topping. Well I have to say I am now the proud owner of this very “rare” baking tool: "The Pastry cutter". I can now make those awesome crumbs for my pumpkin muffins. You know those awesome crumbs that take any muffin from boring to excellent. I was super excited to try it out. Of course my daughter insisted on trying also. She needed to get her cute little hands on my pastry cutter and so I decided she could be my hand model for this post. My pictures are just with flour because when she helps out I give her a separate bowl with just flour so she can "help" and have her own baking bowl.

This pastry cutter has a great rubber grip handle which makes it easy to get a good grip on it. The body of the tool is stainless steel and really easy to clean. It appears and works just like your typical pastry cutter. There are 4 metal blades that do the magic of a pastry cutter. The metal blades aren't too sharp and therefore aren't dangerous for little ones to try with supervision of course. When I tested it with butter, flour, & brown sugar the cutter worked well to make crumbs. You sort of rock the pastry cutter back and forth and move the ingredients around and the crumbs form. It does take a little work to get good crumbs but we were satisfied with the results.

I received these products for free. This however, is my personal, honest, and fair review. 

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Here is the recipe that I use for making Cinnamon Streusel Topping for muffins or breads: Here