HELP! Make shift pan..

I am trying to bake an angel food cake, but my springform pan doesn't come with the attachment for it. How do I make the hole for the cake? I was thinking of using a glass up - base side down - and setting it in the middle of my pan and pouring the batter around it, BUT my husband is afraid the glass will shatter.

Any other suggestions?

I need to make this cake within the next hour. Any thought are greatly appreciated!

TIA!

Reply to
Sapphire
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If your springform pan is shallow like a layer pan just put enough batter on it and bake.If you have excess batter you can pour it in other pans and bake also. An upside down glass on the pan will not do the same trick as the tube pan as the oven heat cannot gent in that portion and will led to poor baking performance. If you have a bundt pan that can be also used for such purpose. Roy

Reply to
Roy

You can purchase a metal tube to use in a conventional pan to convert it to a tube pan. In a pinch, you can use a clean, empty can - like a soup can.

Reply to
Vox Humana

What a wonderful idea! Thank you guys for your help! unfortunately I got to this last reply a little to late, and ended up pouring the mixture into a 10" spring form pan. I will definately try the soup can out next time when I am in a pinch! Thank you so much for your help!

Reply to
Sapphire

doesn't

husband

I think youll find food cans are lead/tin soldered, and the inside coated to keep the lead away from the food, so yes you could, but its not ideal.

NT

Reply to
bigcat

I don't believe that you can use lead solder on cans in the US. Lead solder has been banned for plumbing.

Reply to
Vox Humana

Vox Humana wrote on 02 May 2005 in rec.food.baking

Elctrically welded cans replaced lead soldered cans mostly before WWII. The coating inside the cans is to stop reactions between the metal can and the food inside...the corn doesn't turn black and the peas taste ok etc...

Reply to
Monsur Fromage du Pollet

On Sat 23 Apr 2005 04:06:12p, Sapphire wrote in rec.food.baking:

Why not just buy a tube pan before the next time you want to bake an angel food cake? They're not that expensive, and will make a much prettier and loftier cake than some makeshift solution. You'll be able to use a tube pan for a lot of other things.

Reply to
Wayne Boatwright

You'll be able to use a tube pan

Stop it. You'll make me blush!

Reply to
Vox Humana

I agree,,,,,improvisation with baking pans can sometimes led to bad results Several years back I was baking a batch of pullman breads and I did not have enough lids to cover the bread tins as some of the lids were dented and cannot fit . .Instead I used a baking tray to cover the loaf tins tins but during baking it lifted the trays resulting in odd shaped pullman loaves!

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Roy

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