to bake a cake and make it half/half? I am thinking of using a foil dam but will that work? I have to make a cake for my friends daughter as a going away cake. She is moving to California. I am doing a cake that is 11x15 and the kids want white/chocolate. I am thinking of doing a drawing of the state and marking the state capital and also the place of where the girl is moving. My daughter loves this idea but they are only 13 so I was thinking of something a little more fun! what do you all think? Remember I am still new to this so make it easy on me!
thanks
Liezee22

I have never done it but have read where people do make a dam out of foil to do a half and half cake. I have also read where two people pour batter into the pan at the same time. As for tour design for the marker you could make a fantasy flower - that would add a little girly touch to it. Also you could put some around the sides.
HTH
Melissa

When I did my half and half cake I supported one side of my pan on a rolled towel and put the batter in the low half. I mixed my other batter and poured it in the pan and pulled out the towel. The middle had a 45 degree angle of both flavors. Looked kind of cool.
mary

I have used the foil dam as well, but I started making two separate cakes and putting them together instead. For me, the white cake would be done before the chocolate and then became a little dry because it had to cook the entire time the chocolate did. It was "okay" but not great.

Your cake sounds really fun. I love the idea of the capital, but if you've tried a FBCT before, maybe you can do a simple one with a cartoon character or a girl with a suitcase or moving trunk?

i either prop up one side of the pan just a bit and pour one flavor them mix the other and pour into the empty side OR i stand on one side of the pan and dh stands on the other side and we pour at the same time. works like a charm either way.
good luck
Amy

I would just bake two cakes and cut each one in half and freeze the extra halfs for a later date.

Thank you all for your help I'll post a pic when I'm done...I don't have to make it until next week!

Liezee22

You could make two layers one white and one chocolate and then place one on top the other that way no funky manuveuring with that foil trick and everyone gets a bit of chocolate and white.

I always make different flavored cakes in the same pan - no foil dams or anything. One lady even wanted three flavors once. I did it. It was the 12 X 18 pan, so three mixes were to go in there anyway. I now have a clause where the customer can order as many flavors as there are 1/4 sheets worth of cake. 1/4 sheet is only allowed one flavor. 1/2 sheet - two flavors. 3/4 sheet - three flavors and so on...

What about making one round chocolate, cut it in half and place it on top of the other. Do the same with a white. You'll have 2-2 layer 1/2 cakes. Put them together and you have a 2 layer round cake. 1/2 chocolate & 1/2 white. Just make sure to tort and carve them so they both match up. Although I've never tried it, but if I had to do it, that's what I would do.

I just did this a few weeks ago...I had my 8 yr old help me and we poured our vanilla/chocolate batter at the same time and I eased them both to the center and it worked just fine! If you have two people, it's a cinch!!!

I just had a thought reading all of this. Do you want to get funky? Take your spring form pans and place them in your sheet cake pan. Maybe take some tomato cans with both ends cut open. Enough that would hold a mix worth the batter. Put in your batter to appropriate height. Put your batter in the sheet cake pan. Take out all the other pans. Viola! Polka Dotted cake. No I never tried it. I just thunked it up.
mary

hey, I worked hard to earn my name above my avatar.

Gateaux, Thanks for the kudos! I love when people love my ideas! Yaaayyyy hehehe I sooooooo want to try your idea, nutcase68! That's a good one!

sounds like a good idea..........polka dotted cake!!