i am about to bake a 10x13 round cake for my dd's birthday and realized that the cake pan says it requires the heating core. which i do not have, !

I do have the flower nail that came in my wilton class kit and remember reading something about using that instead...can anyone tell me if this is ok?

thanks!

You can use it. If you have more than one, I suggest using 2 or 3 of them in that pan.

Is it a 10X 3" pan?? Like 10" round 3" high?? You had put 10X13 and I am unaware of that pan?? sorry I'm confused...but, you should use the flower nail. You can grease it and coat it with flower and then put it in the center of your pan before you put your batter into the pan. If you do have a couple more you CAN put them in but, I just had problems with that this past weekend. For a 10" I find that if you just lower the temp on your oven a few degrees and use the one in the middle it should be fine. When I put two into the pan I had separated them a few inches and this caused my cake to not bake properly in the center. I found that one right in the middle helped my cake for a 10".
Hope that helps!!

i dont use a core or nail for a 10in round only for 12in and over. i usually just bake at 325 and its fine

I also use the nail in my larger cakes. I especially use it in my 10 and 12 inch cakes. One greased and floured one right in the middle works great. One time I forgot to put the nail in. It wasn't even greased and floured yet but I just sunk it into the batter and it still worked. I wouldn't always recomend this way though.

it is 10x3, sorry about that!

thanks for the help everyone. now just to get my house to cool down enough to turn on the oven!