Help! Magic Line Pan Problem

Decorating By JulieBee Updated 7 Feb 2007 , 12:22am by moydear77

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JulieBee Posted 6 Feb 2007 , 3:43pm
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I know it must be me, because everyone raves about these pans. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I made a cake using 2 round 9" pans and they pulled away from the sides and sloped in at the top. I asked about it at the cake shop where I bought them, and the lady told me I probably had more batter in the middle and I needed to pull it to the edges. So last night I baked a cake in a 9x12 pan and I pulled the batter to the edges. The cake was a disaster. The edges were high and had to be cut off, leaving me with about a 1" high cake.

Can someone please tell me how to use these pans?? I've been baking cakes for a long time, and never had a problem with the Wilton pans.

Julie

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tyty Posted 6 Feb 2007 , 3:54pm
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About the 9 inch pans, I had that problem too. Where the cake is high on one side and low on the other. What I do now is use bake even strips and I put one pan on the top and the other at the bottom and switch them 1/2 way through. I don't have this problem with the 8 inch pans. So I assume there is not enough air cirulating around the 9 inch pans when you put them in the oven on the same shelf.

As far as the sheet pan, I use a bake even strip and flower nails.

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JulieBee Posted 6 Feb 2007 , 10:15pm
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It wasn't really that it was high on one side or the other. It was just that it pulled away from the sides and then slanted in all the way around the top.

Anyone else have this problem?

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tyty Posted 6 Feb 2007 , 10:21pm
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The only cake I ever baked that did that was German Choc. Try the bake even strips and see if that helps.

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moydear77 Posted 7 Feb 2007 , 12:22am
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I would say more batter. I use 3" tall magic line pans and fill them 3/4 full so I just cut the dome level with the cake pan.

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