And now, back to our regular program.
I love baking, and especially cakes. I love decorating cakes as well and I've taken 2 cake decorating classes in the past. Besides learning a lot about decorating cakes, I learned some tips about baking them as well. I'm going to share one of those tips today.Before taking this class, I used to have the problem of my cakes sticking to the sides of the pans, especially the bottom, no matter how much non-stick spray I used. No more of that!
To prevent your round cake from sticking, follow these steps:
1. Take your cake pan (doesn't have to be a non-stick one) and liberally spread a coat of Crisco on the bottom and the sides. 
2. Take a piece of wax paper and press it into the bottom of the pan, running your finger all around the circle to crease the wax paper.
3. Pull the wax paper back out and then cut along the circle
created by the crease.4. Put the wax circle back into the bottom of the pan and smooth it down with
more Crisco.5. Pour your cake batter into the wax lined pan and bake.
6. After the cake has finished baking and cooled, run a knife around the inside edges of the cake pan and gently lift the cake out. The bottom of the cake will come out easily, with the wax paper still attached. Don't forget to pull of the wax paper before frosting your cake!
And here's the finished product from my baking efforts this past weekend. We had friends over for dinner and I decided to bake a cake with 4 layers, filled with chocolate and white chocolate pudding and frosted with fudge frosting. 
Needless to say, the cake was well received by all!
If you'd like to share something that works for you, please leave me a comment. And be sure to link yourself over at Shannon's, the host of Works-For-Me Wednesday.
Labels: Works-For-Me Wednesday
25 Comments:
I HATE it when a cake crumbles when you try to take it out!
Sounds like a great way to do it.
Best of luck on getting the 100 links.
Great idea!! My aunt always forgets to take the wax paper out of those frozen pie shells...It makes for an interesteing Thanksgiving :D
I do this,too! Great tip.:-)
Excellent tip! I totally did not know to do this!
Great idea! Thanks for sharing it.
This sounds so familiar, I must have known it at some time! Thanks for reminding me!
Thank you for sharing. I am going to have to try this one out! I took the cake decorating class over at Michael's and must have missed the tutorial :)
I will definately be trying this. I hate when the cake sticks to the pan, it makes frosting it so much more difficult.
Now I am hungry =)) Great idea, I am going to try that next time.
What a great tip, thanks for sharing!
AAAhhh...nice! Will have to try this! And, btw, I blame you for the overwhelming need to buy and eat chocolate!!!! Stop posting Chocolate things on here!! I'm weak I tell you, weak! It's not my fault. I blame everyone else...sometimes the addiction wins, there's nothing you can do but blame others! LOL!
This does really work. New cooks will appreciate knowing this. And that's one pretty cake. Looks delicious!
I always have the sticking cake problem!!!
Definitely one to try! Thanks for the tip!
That cake looks delicious! I will have to try this wax paper thing! Great idea! I left my links at your 100th! Have a good one!
My mom used to that when I was a kid, now I know why :-)
Thanks for sharing....
I love this idea! I have seen it once before but had forgotten about it!
Thanks for the pictures, too!
Great idea! Your cake looks delicious!
This is great! Thanks for the tip!
What a great tip! I always have that problem with my cakes too! and wow that cake sounds delicious!
PS - I don't know if you noticed, but I have tagged you :) It's below my TT post from yesterday if you didn't get a chance to see it!
that's a lot of work, but it sure saves frustration, I'll bet. delicious cake, my address is.... :)
I didn't know you could put wax paper in the oven. I would have used parchment paper, but this is a much better and cheaper idea! Oh, I took those cake decorating classes, too. I never could get the hang of those roses--all my roses come out looking like chrysanthemums. (I wish they didn't...'rose' is a lot easier to spell.)
thanks so much
wow! First of all, the cake looks delicious! Second of all, that is a great idea! I haven't baked in a long time but I always hated it when it stuck, now with this tip, it won't!
Oh, yeah! That cake looks scrumptious! Great tip!
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