Ds wants to make a cake that is a cyclinder shape, like a pringles can or those old fashioned metal coffee cans. any tips on how to do that?
I was thinking of a zillion small patty pan cakes layered. but that would take forever sinces i only have one little pan like that.
i thought of a roll cake on end like a pumpkin roll but thought it might unroll on me.
I've heard of people baking cakes in flower pots, do they slide out or would that not work? and that is mroe tapered than he wants.
do i need to give up, is this a crazy idea.
He more or less wants to make a totem pole out of cake.
You can bake cakes in cans.....
http://www.the-baker-chick.com/2012/03/07/mini-tin-can-bi...
http://www.ehow.com/how_###-###-####_can-black-forrest-ca...
Just google "cake in a can" and you will find lots of ideas!
You will need to use dowels down the center of the cakes to keep it all together, but I don't know how tall you can make it. After the cake is baked, you put the dowel down the center to help support all the cakes.
I have a bread tube pan from Pampered Chef that is about the size of a Pringles can.
I might make a cake in a jelly roll pan (a cookie sheet with sides on all 4 sides) and then frost it, put a dowel on one side and roll it up. You'll need a wide base on which to secure it. Perhaps bake a cake in a square pan for the base. Insert the dowel into the base or even cut a circle out of the center of the square cake and insert the rolled up jelly roll vertically.
My mom makes a witches nut cake out of an old coffee can every Thanksgiving. You really can bake in coffee cans. You just have to find coffee cans, so much coffee is packaged in plastic these days.
If you are a coffee drinker, you might be able to find a local coffee company that still packages their beans that way, though. We have one that does it. ;)
You could bake a couple of sheet cakes and then use a cookie or biscuit cutter to cut out smaller circles to stack. You will have extra pieces but it would be pretty easy I think...although baking a cake in a can might just be easier! ;) Either way you will probably need a dowel or two, depending upon how high you want to make it.
I would secure a dowel to the cake board (or use something like a counter-top paper towel holder if you can find one with a really narrow post), bake a cake in a 13 x 9 pan and then cut out circles and stack them, using a bit if icing between. I think that unless you're going to make something very tall (like wedding cake tall), a coffee can isn't going to give you the dimensions you're looking for.
Another idea would be to use rice krispie treats instead of cake. You can easily mold RKTs into whatever shape you want and then frost and decorate.
Our daughter was thinking you could make a sheet cake and cut out circles, then ice and stack them.
But look on google for instructions on how to bake using coffee cans. I saw a lot of recipes.
How about making cupcakes, slicing the tops so they're flat, and piling those? Your idea of using a jellyroll pan to make a "pumpkin roll" type of thing isn't bad either - these generally wouldn't come unrolled easily - but it's more difficult than you'd desire, I'm sure.
If it doesn't have to be a CAKE, you could make a pile of sugar cookies, connected with frosting. This way there could be three different sizes of cookies, for three different parts of the totem pole.
Or if you really do want a cake, a sheet cake can have sections cut out and piled. (There are tube pans one can purchase, but those cakes generally don't stand straight up - the tube lays down flat.)
Have fun!
