[Sca-cooks] Cake pans

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

I have never seen such a shape in a cake pan. Petal pans, square pans,
circle and half-circle, rectangular, giant lips, teddy bears, Blue (of
Blue's Clues), Scooby Doo, a Della Robbia wreath, Barbie, Winnie the Pooh,
Tigger, spheres, footballs, rocking horses, horseshoes, carousel horses,
Xmas trees, guitars, race cars, Power Rangers, Batman, SUVs, 3D steam
engines, etc., etc. But no escutcheon.

There is, however, a Wilton shaped pan in the shape of a castle. You could
do a castle decorated in his colors, which would be pretty nifty, or you
could build a castle of square/rectangular cake and decorate it
accordingly. IIRC it's the Enchanted Castle pan. You want to bake it at a
slightly lower temperature than called for, otherwise your cake will peak
mightily, requiring substantial trimming to sit flat.

Personally, I would either use the castle pan and a separate decorated
sheet cake, or I would build a tiered square cake to look like a
castle. If I was *really* motivated, I'd use gingerbread for the walls and
roof, and marzipan for pennons and banners hanging off the battlements.

Or, just bake two half-sheet cakes and trim the one down for the point of
the escutcheon.

Margaret

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Nelson Beth wrote:

> That's pretty much the plan.  Even if I can find such
> a pan Morin is talking about "maximum of 80" so I
> figure that there I will be making more than one cake
> anyway.  I just think it would be nice to have such a
> shape as this is the 2nd time I've been asked to do
> someone's device and don't think it will be the last.
>
> Orlaith
>
> --- Jennifer Whitbeck <jbwhitbeck at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Can you bake the cake in a rectangular pan and cut
> > it
> > down? That's probably already your fall-back
> > position,
> > though. Good luck!
> >
> > --- Nelson Beth <grdygirl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Speaking of Cake Decorating stuff (what me wander
> > of
> > > topic?  Nah)  Has anyone ever seen a cake pan
> > shaped
> > > like a heater?  I've been asked to do a birthday
> > > cake
> > > for Storvik's Warlord and would like to do his
> > > device.
> > >  He's doing 30 fights on his 30th birthday at a
> > > special fighter practice complete with feast.
> > >
> > > Orlaith
> >