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!
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
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.
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!
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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.
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I don't believe that you can use lead solder on cans in the US. Lead solder has been banned for plumbing.
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...
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.
You'll be able to use a tube pan
Stop it. You'll make me blush!
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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