I've been cooking for years and still can't manage to get a cake out of the pans without distroying it.

Question

My cakes taste good and I use homemade icing - but I can't seem to ever get them to look good enough to serve to anyone.

Answer 1

Try cutting yourself a liner of parchment paper to go around the bottom and sides of your pan. Use cooking spray first to get the parchment to stick then more spray so it's easy to get it off the cake later. I'd cut a circle or square out the same size as the bottom of your pan and then a long strip that's as tall as the pan to go all the way around. When the cake is cooled it should come out in a snap. Another tip is to slice off the top for a layer cake so all the layers are even. Go get a hacksaw blade from the hardware store- it's much easier than trying to use a knife to cut it!

Answer 2

Use Pam cooking spray and then lightly flour the pan. When the cake is done let it cool COMPLETELY before you take it out of the pan. Then slide a knife around the edges of the pan and gently turn the pan over onto a serving tray. Good Luck and Happy Baking!

Answer 3

I used to work at a bakery and all we did was spray the pans with cooking spray and put a circle of wax paper in the bottom of the pan. Then, after baking and cooling, we ran a spatula around the edge of the pan and tapped the pan upside down and the cake comes right out.

Answer 4

Make sure you use heavy pans. Cheap, thin ones from walmart will cause outer edges to burn and stick to pan.

Use Pam w/ Flour. I've yet to have anything stick w/ that.

If you're really worried, make a round of parchment paper to put on top of hte Pam w/ Flour, and then spray more Pam w/flour on top of parchment round.

Let your cakes cook about 15 min. in the pan before turning them out. Popping them out of the pan right after removing from oven will guarantee a crumbled cake. Waiting until completely cool won't make it any easier, either.

Place rack or plate on top of cake pan, then holding the two together liek a sandwich, flip over. The cake should come out easily.

Answer 5

You might not be greasing the pan well enough. Try a spray on like butter flavored Pam, and you should get good results. Err in favor of over greasing the first few times you use it. Also be sure to give the cake plenty of time to cool, about twenty to thrity minutes. Cakes shrink when they cool, so if you have greased well, it should be a simple matter of flipping it over and letting it fall out, you shouldn't even have to tap it to get it out.

Answer 6

Are you greasing and flouring your pans? You need to be pretty generous if you want to get your cakes out in good condition.

You can buy this in a spray now - it greases and flours all at once.

Also, make sure you're letting your pans cool for a little bit before you even try to take them out. Hot cake falls apart so much easier.

Answer 7

I use the Wilton Cake release spray. I have never had a problem getting cakes out once I started using that. It works wonders and sn't very expensive either. Wilton also makes a cake release that you brush on with a pastry brush (clean of course) and that works just as well.

And amen for homemade icing....that is all I ever use. :)

Answer 8

to get your cake out of the pans in perfect condition 1. grease & flour bottom of cake pan. 2. using wax paper cut it the size & shape of the pan, the easiest way to do this is to put pan on top of wax paper, use the point of a knife to trace around bottom, then cut out the shape. 3. put the cut wax paper shape in bottom of pan. 4. lightly grease & flour wax paper. 5. pour in batter & bake according to directions. 6. when done baking cool on cooling rack for 10 minutes 7. use knife to run around the side of cake in pan gently pushing cake away from pan. 8. turn pan over a there you have it. i use this method all the time passed to from my mom & grandma. GOOD LUCK. this has made me hungry for cake i think i will go bake one.

Answer 9

Do you use non-stick spray in the pans? I use them even when the recipe doesn't call for it, and even in non-stick pans. That is such an aggrevation after you have spent all that time preparing and it sticks!
Just do your best with the decoration of it, at our home, it wouldn't matter what it looked like, if it is a cake, it would be eaten!!

Answer 10

What I use is great and made by Tupperware. They have those silicon baking shapes which makes your cake come out great. They also developed a great silicon wonder mat, so no longer cookies that get stuck to the surface.I love Tupperware product anyways. It's maybe a little costly, but lasts a lifetime.