Hello. I saw Sandra Lee in Semi-homemade baking cakes inside a stainless steel mixing bowl.

I wonder if any of you has done it.

I bought a set of three, from small to big and was contemplating baking in the small one.

Mine is the brand Steeltek and its not very light, but it is a heavier stainless steel than others I've seen.

What do you all think?

consider it a heavy duty, even over-sized wonder mold.

(hoping JanH will be along w/ her multi-cross linked thread posting)

same as baking in any large heavy pan...

just in this case the heating core in the middle become even more important.

can make it out of a large (what is that a 9 or so in size) flower nail to which you add a metal extension (piece of very narrow gauge copper or food grade stainless steel or even a very tightly rolled piece of aluminum foil (keeping it as smooth as possible)

and of course bake at lower temp, 325 or so.

just remember -- those bowls hold lots of batter.

We do it on the Dutch forum but most of the times we use a very light batter (bizcocho sin mantequilla). If you want the use the normal batter with butter I would do it as Doug suggests (yeah we had a huge topic about the "equipment" to make a appropriate heating core for this too at our forum ).

By the way Debbie Brown does the same, uses those bowls for her cakes (and very heavy madeira cake too).

Good luck with it!

Lara

Sure you can bake cakes in them. Like Doug said, a heating core would be helpful. I once made a "boob" cake in giant mixing bowls. I recall they took a long time to bake; but they were fine. ("they" ... two boobs). I greased and floured them.

Thank you sooo much! I will as soon as I have the occasion to make one with one of these!

Thanks again!

What are you making? Now I'm curious.

i used my pyrex mixing bowls to make my pumpkin.. worked great.. I'm going to use one next month to make an hill for a sheet cake.. long story short i love it!
Jen

I have never used a stainless steel mixing bowl, but I have used the Pampered Chef batter bowls and also the small measuring bowls and they work great too! I use the small ones for tea cups and small hills on a dirt track for a monster truck cake.

I also used my pyrex bowl to make a cowboy hat cake (forgot to take a photo) it turned out great. I used one flower nail in it and it worked great but everytime I look at my 3 stainless steel bowls I wonder the same thing can I bake in them lol now I will have to find an excuse to try them lol

I have used the small ss bowls for cakes, no core, baked fine. I just wanted to add, I saw Alton Brown on tv last night, he popped popcorn in a large ss bowl. Because of the narrow bottom, the corn popped much better than in a flat bottom pot. He covered the bowl with foil, punched a few small holes for steam release and used a tong to hold onto the bowl to shake the corn til done. I thought this was a neat tip as I LOVE popcorn made the old fashioned way.

[quote="hellie0h"]and used a tong to hold onto the bowl to shake the corn til done. quote]
What was the heat source?

[QUOTE="LittleLinda"]

Stove top, is the heat source. (popping corn the old fashioned way)