Making My First Full Sheet Cake...any Tips, Hints, Etc.?
Decorating By tbainter Updated 9 May 2010 , 3:34am by Geseka
Making a graduation cake - Full Sheet size - I have a 12x18x2 inch pans. Client wants a chocolate and vanilla cake - fillled with Bavarian Cream....what kind of baking tips, torting (or not), etc. do you have....best recipes for cakes this large.....heating core or flower nails...
When I make a cake that large I use flower nails or a heating core for baking. I also put parchment paper on the bottom of the pan to insure a clean release when it is taken out of the pan. I use the same recipes for large cakes as I do for small cakes. I like the WASC and it's variations.
Spray them with baking spray and insert one in the middle or one on each end of the cake pan and pour batter around them. I use 1 in the middle of my 12 x 18 pan (never tried that using two cake flavors) and it comes out just fine.
most important thing....................make sure it's on a strong board, otherwise when it's picked up the center where the 2 half sheets meet will crack!! NOT GOOD
That same thing happened to me last friday, fortunately i was able to patch and repair before the customer arrived.
I just made my first full sheet cake this week. I actually baked a couple of smaller layers since I was using a 1 inch deep half sheet pan, so I didn't have to torte nor did I have to use a flower nail (which I normally do use when baking a 9" x 13"). I did have to get cooling racks large enough for the half sheet since I didn't have any, but having the right size cooling rack was important because I originally tried just holding two side by side and ended up cracking the layer in half.
I absolutely agree about the board. I ended up cutting a cake board from foam core board and then covering that in the cake board foil. That seemed study enough, plus my cake box had a heavy duty base as well.
But the biggest issue I had was that my cake ended up being pretty much the same size as my cake box, which I purchased from the bakery at Wal-Mart. So, after it was all iced, I had to cut off about an inch so that it wouldn't smoosh the icing and I could pipe a border around the bottom. Next time, I will measure the box first and make sure the cake fits before I ice it!
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