I am doing a birthday cake for Friday. They asked it to be half chocolate half white. It supposed to be just an ordanary sized cake. But what size pan do I use to make it half/half? I have limited pans so I don't know if I need to go buy more or is there something that you place inside of like an 11x15 to make sure the mixes don't touch? HELP

When I do a half/half cake I just use one of the sheet pans then I prop up one side a little, pour one of the batters in then when I pour the other batter in I carefully move the side that was proped up down to the table or counter while I am pouring. The mixes only touch a little bit.

So you bake them together in one pan. Thanks so much. I was stressing cause I didn't know if I need to make an emergency trip to buy more pans.

I made a half and half cake about a month ago. I made one white 11x15 and one chocolate 11x15, then cut them in half and stuck one chocolate half and one white half next to each other. Then I put BC on it as the filling and put the other halves together on top of those, so it was a double layer cake without having to torte. I just had to carefully make sure I was cutting in exactly the middle.

I made the cakes 1 1/2" high so the finished cake was about 3 1/2" high.

I was kind of in the same boat as you. I only have one 11x15 pan and didn't want to have to buy another one.

I once was asked for a half sheet, half/half so I baked them in a 1/4 sheet pan, then lay them side by side and iced them together. You just need to make sure that you put extra icing in the middle of them so they lay level to each other.

HTH

I have a piece of stiff cardboard with foil over it, I put it in the middle of the pan to divide it in half then pour the batter in on each side then take the cardboard out of the middle

Thank you guys so much for the advice. This sounds much easier than I had imagined. Stress myself for nothing!

Hi Alicia,
Haven't seen you on the DH forum. I do what cakesbgood does. But, if you have the quarter sheet pans that would be easier. And, if you don't want to make it a double layer, you could always freeze the other two halves until later. Good luck and be sure to post a pix when your done.
TAB

When I made a half/half cake, I just put a peice of aluminum foil in the middle of the pan as my "barrier". After I poured each side in, I took the foil out. It worked great!

Hi Tab!
I was off work yesterday for election day so I wasn't at my computer. I am terrible at pan sizes. What is a 1/4 sheet size? 9x13 or 11x15 or neither? I think I'll take my 11x15 and place a cardboard in the middle. That sounded the easiest to me. This cake is for my husband's boss!!! So right off the bat I am already nervous. Not suppose to make it frilly but simply with something in the corners?!

well, theres been alot of debate on the sizes lol! I use the 9x13 for a 1/4 sheet cake myself, because that's what the size of the 1/4 sheet cakes are around here in the stores, plus that's what I always thought it was anyway. But some people say that their 1/4 sheets are the 11x15 size. I would just go by the amount of people that the cake is going to be for. You said it's for your husbands boss, is it going to be served at work for everyone, or is he taking it home, etc? Good luck, can't wait to see your cake when it's done!

I have baked them in the same pan, and I have baked two separate cakes and placed them together. Depends on what flavor they are. If I need chocolate, I bake them separately because my chocolate cake takes longer to bake than the others.

I just make a layer of each so that every serving has both flavors.

I have even baked 1/2 white and 1/2 chocolate in a 10" round pan. I do what others suggested ... I take some cake board, cover with aluminum foil and place it in the middle and pour each end. I ususally bake until the longer one is just done. Always comes out great.

My hardest part is trying to remember which side is which! I even marked the board last time and it was still mixed up. Luckily it was for a friend and she didn't mind being surprised.

Do all of you leave your cake board/aluminum foil in while cooking or do you take it out before cooking? I took mine out but am now wondering if I should have left it in.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I normally ask the person if they would like it side-by-side, or top-to-bottom. Normally, they really like the idea of having 2 flavors in every piece (such as the bottom layer chocolate, the top layer white). That's also easier, so you don't have to patch-up the middle with the extra frosting, and you can just use 1/2 the cake mix, so you're baking 2 smaller cakes which become 1 normal sized cake. OR, I just make 2 normal sized cakes & make it 1 tall cake, they seem to really like that!

I use the method KristyF said.....put foil in the center pour in two kinds of mix, pull foil out..and bake......the only issue you have with making two cakes is sometimes they will start to crack and separate where they have been joined if the cake board has any give to it at all.

YAY!!!! I sucessfully baked my first half/half cake last night. I did the idea of card board wrapped in foil in the middle, pouring both mixes and then removing the cardboard. It worked great. Thanks to everyone. I will have the finished results after tonight and hopefully post it tomorrow!

Yay!!! Here is my finished cake! I had to wait till the kids went to sleep last night before I could work on. And of course this is the one night that my son did NOT want to go to sleep. I finally got to work on it at 11:00 PM and finished by 12:30 AM. I was going to have two strawberries in each corner.....but when I got them out I discovered two were missing??!!! My DH probably had something to do with this!!! It sad leaving your cakes! I want to look at it all night long. Oh well, least I'll have pictures. Thanks to everyone for your help!!!!

lol@not wanting to leave your cake.........I do the same thing....only my reason is because my DH likes to snack in the middle of the night and I'm always afraid he'll sleep eat my cake!!!!! By the way, your cake looks beautiful your writing is sooooo perfect, great job!!!

What I don't understand is I have practiced and practiced the Wilton way to do the rope border and I am just not getting the hang of it. This is my version. It looks the same to me. Instead of doing "S" I have to make a "C" ??!!!