Hello mamas,
I have a shaped disposable cake pan from Wilton in which I would like to bake my son’s birthday cake. I checked Wilton’s website, but couldn’t find anything about baking in disposable pans. My son has seen the pan and is super excited to have a Buzz Lightyear cake. The pan is shaped like a rocket and comes with a cake topper that has Toy Story characters on it. I have never baked with a disposable pan before. The directions on the bag say to follow your cake recipe, and to cool the cake in the pan completely. It specifically says to not remove the cake from the pan, and to simply icing the top leaving the cake in the pan. I would like to icing the cake. I don’t think it would look very nice to leave it in this cake pan. Has anyone ever baked a cake in one of these disposable cake pans and successfully removed the cake from the pan? How did you prepare the pan to remove the cake? My recipe calls for greasing the pan only. I only have the options of greasing with margarine, greasing with margarine plus dusting pan with flour, or using wax cooking paper. I cannot get cooking sprays where I live. I usually bake this cake in an 8 inch round cake pan for 55 minutes at 350 degrees F, but this disposable cake pan is a little smaller. How long would you bake the cake if only half the batter or ¾ of the batter will fit into the pan? Also when would you remove the cake from the pan: right after it comes out of the oven, or let it cool in the pan for a short time like 10 minutes and then remove it? Please help. Thanks in advance for any advice you can share.
I've never tried it with the type of pan you're specifically describing but here are my suggestions.
-Grease with Crisco
-Don't use flour, use powdered sugar instead (tastes better and doesn't leave a white residue on your cake)
-Let the cake cool completely before attempting to remove from the pan
Maybe you could do a trial run prior to the big day?
I put cooking oil on a coffee filter (I don't buy paper towels) and rub the inside of the pan, completely covering it with a light coating of the oil. Instead of dusting the pan with flour I dust the pan with the dry ingredients before I add the milk, egg, ect.
I would check the cake after 20-25 minutes and go from there.
When I use disposable pans or shaped pans like the rocket, I cool the cake completely before removing it from the pan. I set the pan on a wire rack so it can cool underneath it too. The cake shrinks a little as it cools and that makes it easier to remove, and reduces the chance of it sticking and breaking apart. When I've been short on time I've set the whole thing in the fridge to cool faster.
Good luck, I'm sure the cake will turn out wonderful.
I've never seen these so I googled it - there are two to a pack, right? Maybe try one and see if you can remove it and if you make a mess, you can do the other one and just leave it in the pan.
I see no reason why you can't get the cake out - I would grease with butter (or margarine, whatever you have), flour, then put in a piece of parchment paper and grease that too. The parchment should make it pop right out.
Can you line the bottom with parchment paper? I do this with all my cakes, though I have never tried it in a disposable pan. Good luck to you.
I would think that it would be hard to get a cake out of a disposable cake pan because the sides and bottom of the pan will bend instead of remain stiff as a regular cake pan. I would just follow the instructions and leave it in the pan myself.
I always used Crisco and floured the bottom and all sides of the pan.
If the cake doesn't want to come out after substanstantial cooling, you could certainly use kitchen shears to cut the sides of the cake pan to get the cake out that way after turning it upside down on a platter. You might want to do a trial run.
All in all, if nothing else, I don't see why leaving it in the pan would be so bad if nothing else.
Best wishes. Let us know how it turns out.
My friend made a Batman cake for her son in a disposable pan and it came out of the pan just great.
