Question About The "flower Nail Trick"
Decorating By subaru Updated 9 Feb 2007 , 2:34pm by pbertone1005
OK, I have heard all of this about the flower nail trick. I tried it once, in a 10 in pan that was 2in high. The flower nail is taller than the pan, so when I flipped the cake out onto the board, it (the nail) tipped sideways and ripped the cake. So My question is.. How do you turn the cake out with the nail in and not mess up the cake? I am anxious to know the answer. Thanks in advance!
well, i flip the cake completely over, then set it down straight and it usually pushes the flower nail straight up, rather than tipping it to the side. yeah, i'm no help at all. lol
I don't turn my cakes out directly onto boards. I turn them out onto cooling racks so the nail just goes through the holes in the rack then I pull it out.
HTH
I use the flower nail in all pans bigger than about 9 in. What I do is coat it with my cake release and put it upside down in the pan then pour in the batter. Once it is cooked and cooled about 10-15 min in the pan, I put the cooling rack over the pan making sure the point of the flower nail is in one of the holes. Then flip over making sure not to slide it around and bump the nail. I set the cooling rack on an empty cake pan, then grab the big part of the flower nail and pull straight out. I have not had a problem with it breaking my cake. hope this helps.
i dont usually have a problem with the nail being larger than the cake is deep. my cakes tend to rise above the nail (make sense?) when i turn the cake out of the pan onto the cooing rack, the nail head is right there so i simply pull it out.
you use the flower nail greased the same way your pan is greased as a heating core- flipped upside down in the center of the pan.
and i forgot to mention that i also flip my cakes onto cooling racks, that way when the nail is pushed up, it's not pushed completely out. then you reach under the rim and grab the nail between the tines of a fork and lift it out
i am kind of new as well, oritdecor. you see, for really large cakes, sometimes they don't bake as evenly in the middle as they do on the edges, so to make your large cakes bake evenly, you can use something called a heating core, made of metal. That helps keep the temperature even through the middle of the cake. But instead of buying a heating core, you can use a metal flower nail. That is the trick.
Thank you so much NickiDoc,it's always good to know tricks and tips,even though at this point I don't bake any cakes I build ice cream cakes and/or we get them prebuilt from the company. I am seriously thinking starting to make all kinds of cakes,I don't have much time between work and studying(I'm taking medical billing) I LOVE decorate and create ,so in the near future I want to start baking cakes, and I definitely am lucky to find Cake Central.com.
Thanks Orit decor.
Does anybody ever use more than one flower nail in a cake and if so what size pan do you use two for. I'm making a 12 inch cake and am wondering if one nail is enough. Thanks, Pat
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