Mrs. Anderson's Pastry Blender is a must-have of pastry tools and a great addition to baking tools for mixing baking ingredients and blending thicker batters and heavier doughs. The sturdy wires quickly cut in firmer ingredients, like butter, shortening, and cream cheese, breaking them into smaller pieces while blending wet and dry ingredients evenly throughout the dough for a better taste and consistency. Easy to use. Simply place ingredients into a mixing bowl or onto a work surface. With a firm pressure, move the blender in an up-and-down motion to cut and mix the ingredients until the desired consistency is achieved. Quickly create lighter dough for pastries and other baked goods, flakier pie crusts, or mix up a crumb topping for apple crisp or peach cobbler.