11 X 15 Cake...cooling And 'flipping'
Decorating By mbalis Updated 20 Jul 2006 , 2:48am by candyladyhelen
OK, I have my first 11 x 15 cake to bake. I bought a huge cooling rack to invert it onto for cooling. My question is, I flip it onto the cooling rack...then how do I get such a large cake onto the actual board I'm using to decorate. 
Do I place the board on top of the cake and flip again? I guess then the cake will be right side up, but the 'bottom' might be the smoother one to decorate. I hope this doesn't sound too 'duh' 
Any tips on these large cakes would be great !! I made a note to use the flower nails on my sketch already.
I've flipped mine from the pan to the board and then back and forth again, either with another board or the pan again to get the bottom of the cake right side up. Make sure it's completely cool, a bigger cake like that is heavy and get two firm grips! 
I flip mine from the pan onto my covered cake board. Let cool, then frost. I flip it directly onto my cake board. I like to frost the bottom because it is smooth, it doesn't have a trimmed off top, and it tends to be more level. HTH.
I have 2 of the large cooling racks.. I put my cooling rack on top of my pan after the cake has cooled down some... I flip the pan over to the cooling rack.. I then take my other cooling rack and put on the back (which would be the bottom of the cake) and flip it back over to the other cooling rack .. I leave it there until completely cooled down ... when I'm ready to decorate, I position my cake board which has already covered with whatever paper I'm using and flip it over onto my board and icing/decorate... this works really well for me .. hope this helps 
Thank you guys ! At first I was worried I'd need another large surface, but of course, the PAN 
I already sent my sweet SO out to get another large cooling rack after I posted. So I should be all set with flipping surfaces!
Thank you so much for the responses - always so great here at CC
Now of course I'm paranoid that a single layer 11 x 15 will not feed 25. grrr, I'm a worry-wart 
I let my cake cook in the pan for a little while then flip it onto a cooling rack and then back onto the bottom of the cake pan to level...once i've leveled my cake I put it back on the cooling rack to completely cool...then its onto my covered cake board...good luck
That will be fine for 25 people! When I made my first 11x15 a few months ago, we fed 20 (with decent-sized pieces) and still had at least 1/3 of the cake left! In fact, because of the leftovers, I was thinking I'd made it 12x18 and went out to buy a new 11x15 pan last week because I didn't think I owned one. Duh!
Good luck!
I never flip onto a cooling rack. I wait til it's cool enough, then just flip onto the prepared board.
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