Hello fellow CC ers!!
I baked an 8 inch cake using the three inch pan yesterday. It was my first experience with the 3" pans as I have only used 2" in the past. I used a flower nail because I filled it fuller than suggested.
1) My question is -- I used my bake easy strip around the top edge of the pan. Should I have put 2 strips on the pan to cover the whole side?
2)Is there a way to make home made strips?
By the way I like the 3" pan!!
TIA for your help.
Cindy
I don't use the strips, only some of my students (I teach cake decorating) use them, but you put them all the way around your pan and get them wet. Never heard of making your own.
I agree, the 3" pan is the BEST. I have 2 of them and just use half my mix in each and once I put them together after they are done the cake is 4 inches high with my filling!!!! Plus with 2 of them the cakes cook faster!
Ginger, I hope you don't mind my PMing you. Sometime I miss the post otherwise. I have for years been using 2" pans and so unhappy because the solution is either to use more filling or to make an extra cake to get the heighth needed. I am going to experiment with a few 3" pans and would like to know if you fill your pans half way or more. I use both scratch and mixes so I supppose the rules would still be the same? I have been asked many times to teach baking but don't want to 'till I "fix" this. Where do you teach? Thanks for your time. It is so appreciated.
fearlessbaker, I teach at Michaels in VA Beach (Hilltop). I would fill them at least half full, but I use the entire cake batter, so give or take half full to a little more than. I find that using the 3" pans gives it more heigth even if I use the same amount of batter I would use in a 2". You will LOVE the 3" pans, get two if you do a lot of baking!!!!!!!!! Wilton also has the 13x9 3" pans as well as the 8x8 square 3 inchers. Have fun!!!!
I have trouble getting the bake strips to fit snugly enough around the pan. They often fall off when I move the pan from the counter to the oven. how do you attach them?
I made my bake easy strips. I cut long strips from an old terry towel. One thickness if it is a heavy towel or 2 if it is a thin towel. I had an old ironing board cover (the silver colored covered) I cut that into strips and sewed them to one side of the terry cloth strips. They work just like the Wilton strips. I bought the T pins to fasten them with.
I sewed some velcro onto my bake even strips...Have NO problem w/ them slipping off, plus it allows me to join more than 1 strip together for those extra large cake pans!
Thank you every one!! You have all been very helpful. That velcro idea is good. I would not have thought of it.
I have some baking strips, but when I have a pan that won't fit my strips, I soak paper towels, fold them and wrap them in foil to fit the pans. They work perfectly and don't require any sewing skills, which is convenient because I have none.
I have some baking strips, but when I have a pan that won't fit my strips, I soak paper towels, fold them and wrap them in foil to fit the pans. They work perfectly and don't require any sewing skills, which is convenient because I have none.
How thick do you fold the paper towels?
I fold them to match the width of the cake pan. ( usually three or four layers thick.)
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