My 16" square cake pan doesn't fit in my oven!!!! The door closes but it hits the side of the pan!!!! (The back side of the pan is not hitting the rear of the oven, the oven rack has an upturn which is preventing it)
I just bought this pan - why would I have thought to check this first? Has anyone else had this problem? I always thought I had a standard oven!
Anyway - I just set the timer for 60 minutes and said a little prayer. Should I turn the pan halfway through or something???
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the door doesn't shut tight I would fill in the gap with foil and a towel or something, otherwise the heat will escape! My Wilton instructor said that she did this when she had to bake cakes larger than her oven. You could still turn it but if you do this you might not have to. Let us know how it works out!
Good luck,
HeatherMari
Well the door does shut tight. It's just that the edge of the pan is touching the door. Not good for heat circulation.
I'm going in to turn it.....Will be back!
OK I turned it. Like I suspected, the back edge where there is heat circulation was more baked than the front edge touching the door.
I just HATE turning big pans like that, when the batter isn't set and one false move the whole thing might collapse! Anybody here use anything to increase the "glide" on an oven rack?
Well here is my report on the 16" square cake. It developed a significant hump on the front side and is a bit drier on the back side (back side baked faster). I think it will level out OK though.
I just leveled it and the whole back edge is completely dried out 
So now that I've thrown it out, I have a proclamation:
Instead of one 16" square layer, I'm going to do 4 - 8" squares arranged together. Easier to mix (won't overfill my KA), easier to bake, easier to cool, easier to level, easier to torte.
Now this leads me to a question (I will post new thread if necessary) The 16" base layer is going to have a 12" layer stacked on top of it. I was already going to heavily dowel the cake, are there any tricks to keep the 8" squares from migrating away from one another?
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