I am in the middle of baking a cake for my son's 7th birthday. It is going to be a 9'13 sheet with a 9in round stacked on top. Well I am not sure what I did wrong but I went to pull the sheet cake out of the pan and it broke into 3 pieces. I have a million things to do today and I REALLY don't want to rebake but I also don't want my son's cake to collapse tomorrow. What should I do????

I think you are going to have to rebake. Try lining the pan with parchment paper. That will prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Good luck!!

Cindy

You could try "gluing" it back together with buttercream. It depends on how badly it broke apart.

Is the cake in three nice big chunks, or is it in crumbly fragile chunks? If it looks like you're in danger of it breaking further, I think you'd have to rebake. If not, and since this is just for family, glue the pieces together with icing and ice the sheet cake, and I'd dowel it for the round cake to sit on just in case.

If this were for a customer, I'd rebake it for sure, but it's for your family and you're in a hurry, so if they'll be okay with it and the cake seems sturdy enough, go ahead and use it.

Deanna

If you rebake it, put a flower nail in the bottom of the pan (sticking up) underneath the parchment paper. The nail will help bake the cake more evenly.

If you are not travelling with it and the pieces are large breaks, I think you could get away with it. Esp. if it is a "family" cake. I have had cakes break and I just placed them together like a puzzle and frost it - if you use a crusting BC you may see some "fault lines", and you may have to frost it a little thicker than normal - make sure your pieces are level even if it means proping with a cookies, cake scraps, whatever if you can't cut it level. Place the top cake on as close to the party as you can, can you position it either on a large unbroken piece of cake or right in the middle of 2 fault lines to distribute the weight?

It really alll depends on how large the pieces are I guess. Got a picture?

Thanks everyone! I was gonna glue them together but I didn't want to spend the day decorating only to have to go out tomorrw and buy a cake when this one collapses (i'm a bit of a pessimist when it comes to my cake skills). So I rebaked with parchment paper and a flower nail and it came out perfectly. Thanks all!!!!

can i ask about the flower nail? the nail for making bc roses? please explain thanks!

jastaus grease a flower nail and place it in the center of your pan before pouring in your batter - then bake - it helps distribute the heat when your cake is baking....