What Can I Use Instead Of Baking Strips?
Decorating By Starkie Updated 13 Aug 2007 , 3:56am by shoup_family
I need a nice, high 10x10 cake, but I only have a 10x10x2 cake pan. What can I use instead of bake even strips (which I don't have) to make sure this cake rises nicely and evenly? I have heard about putting the pan in another, slightly larger pan with water in it to help it rise evenly? Any suggestions?
if you want a wrap, you can use strips of wet toweling.
Be careful using towels. Someone on here this site used towels and they caught afire.
I haven't tried it but in Dede Wilson's "Wedding Cake You Can Make" book she suggests using foil and wet paper towels. You fold a strip of foil in half and line with wet paper towels. The fold the whole thing over again to enclose the papertowel inside the foil. Then attach to the pan using a metal paper clip or some other oven proof thing (pin or something).
Her directions are obviously more eloquent and descriptive but I'm too lazy to go get the book and retype all of it! 
HTH anyway!
If you use a wet dishtowel cut into strips, your towel MUST be 100% cotton! No synthetic fibers.
Would towels be the same as putting the cake pan inside another, slightly larger cake pan filled with a little water?
Same idea, different method.
Maria I bake cakes at 325.........
if you want a high cake use three layers, split and fill.
My son is a pastry chef and that is what he does to desired hight. He uses sponge cake, split and freeze. You can see his Mickey cake at thomasE.
a flower nail is used for making roses and other flowers on, then removing to cake.
Sharon
Yes, flower nails are the easiest way to go.
I use at least 2-3 in my pans....be sure to grease them first.
I'm sorry but can someone please explain how the flower nail thing works?? I'm confused
Place the flower nail, head side down, in the pan. Depending on pan size, you may need to use more than 1 nail per pan. It acts as a heat conductor to allow the middle of the cake to bake at the same rate as the cake sides.
I always bake my cakes at 325 with an inverted flower nail and still get domes. So, if I use the 100% cotton towl, it neeeds to be wrapped in foil???
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