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How To Bake A Lot Of Cake At Once

By , 26 January, 2010, No Comment

If you have a large gathering on the horizon, right now is the time to start planning out how you’re going to bake all of that cake!  There are tons of ways to get this job done, but in this post I want to share with you how I do it and why it works so well.  Baking is something that many people enjoy doing, but when you have to cook enough for hundreds of people it can seem like a chore!  Hopefully this post will help you break some of the monotony by being more efficient.

After you’ve figured out how many mouths you need to bake for you need to get the cake tins.  Most people will use a sheet cake pan to get the job done, and that’s a really good idea.  The size that you get depends on the occasion that you’re baking for and what types of decorations need to be done.  If you just need a lot of cake, get a really big sheet pan.  If you have to do decorations, it would be better to tier or stack the cake so less decoration has to be done.

If your oven is large enough, I recommend baking two cakes at once.  These large cakes are going to take at least an hour to bake in the oven, so you’ll save a major chunk of time by baking two at once.  If you can’t get two going at once, be sure to have two timers that you can use.  Get the first cake into the oven, and get the next one going halfway into the first  one’s cook time.

When decorating these cakes be sure that you do it all at once.  It’s a pain to set up and break down all of your frosting tools, so if you can decorate them one after another you’ll save a ton of time and help make sure that they all get decorated.  Don’t choose any decorations that are too elaborate or you’ll spend so much time decorating that you won’t finish.

Baking a ton of cake at once isn’t a tough job, but it takes patience and planning.  Get all of your stuff together before hand and have a plan so that you don’t end up with a disaster and no cake to show for it!

Where To Find Cheap Birthday Cake Pans

By , 23 December, 2009, No Comment

It used to be that you could find birthday cake pans everywhere. There would be an entire section in the grocery store that was full of shaped cake pans and decorating supplies. Long gone are those days. Somewhere in the late 90′s baking fell from the vogue and buying terrible cakes from the grocery store became the norm. Luckily, baking is once again becoming the haute couture, but places to find cheap pans are still rare. In this post I’ll show you how to track down birthday cake pans and pay what you want for them.

If you live in a small town, finding these cake pans will be tough. They now mostly reside in high end kitchen supply stores and places that supply restaurants with their wares. Unfortunately, even if you find the pan that you want at a place like this it will probably be very expensive.

Instead, turn to the internet. With some research you can find the exact pan that you want and get a great deal on shipping. Amazon and eBay are generally the best places to get cheap cake pans. Amazon is the best when you need to get lots of things and need it all shipped to your house. Most stuff will qualify for free shipping in the US when your order is over $25. eBay is the place to get birthday cake pans as cheap as possible. Ordering more than one thing is a pain on eBay, but it’s great when the pan is all you need.

Take the butterfly cake pan by Wilton for example. In a store you would pay between $15 and $18 for it. As of this writing, Amazon and eBay both have the exact same pan for less than $7! Great deals are out there for birthday cake pans, it’s just a matter of looking in the right places.

Birthdays and birthday cakes will never go out of style. They happen each year, so you might as well spend some time figuring out how to save money now so you can keep saving every year from now on.