I am helping a friend make her daughters bday cake for next thusday...we will not be baking til this monday.
I have baked 8 inch rounds (there will be two of those), but I have never baked a 10" round (there will be two of those as well). I only have 1 10" pan....we will be using box cake mix
Soooo....on baking a 10" round, what is your advice on the following:
how full should the pan be
what temp
how long to bake (I have several flower nails and a heating core)
TIA
just joking, (sorry couldn't help it, the typos struck me as funny). lol....i notice the 10' typo too!!! that would be quite ambitious LOL....I fixed it....its a 10 INCH round
I don't use a flower nail on my 10" cakes but i guess you could use one.
I use the flower nail in mine. I even use it in smaller cakes. One cake mix will usually be enough for a 2" deep round 10" pan.
Fill about half full - I use a 10" round that is 3" deep so that took about 1.5 mixes - the rest is in the freezer. I used a flower nail as a core and my homemade baking strips (just cut from remnant fleece). Following others recommendation - I baked this at 325 degrees. Since this is a deep pan and I used the strips, it took about 75 min to bake, but was flat, level and perfect.
- I've never used flower nails or heating cores no matter how big the cake is.
- In a home kitchen, I bake at 325.
- I never use a timer, so the best I can say is "bake it until it's done".
- One mix for a 10" round pan.
- I grease only, no flour. Cakes rise higher for me.
In 40 years of baking I've never used a flower nail for baking. Never.
Me neither and I've baked a 16" square.
Shouldn't really need a heat core unless it is a 3in cake. I don't use a timer....bake until it springs back and smells done. When I baked at home...I would say....bake it untill you smell it in my living room!! lol
If you are really worried about it...bake a test cake and it you love the results, throw it in the freezer.
Happy Baking!
- the rest is in the freezer.
does that mean you can freeze leftover cake mix? I would have never thought of that.
- I grease only, no flour. Cakes rise higher for me.
That is going in my tip file.
- I grease only, no flour. Cakes rise higher for me.
That is going in my tip file.
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