Cake pan and baking trays are almost indispensable tools in the baker's kitchen. The presence of them not only shows professionalism, but also makes the cakes made in many different shapes and sizes, bringing a lot of interesting and attractive to the enjoyment.
For those who love to make cakes, the cake pan is like their own shirt. You want to be more beautiful in the eyes of everyone who has to have a suitable shirt, want a deliciously delicious cake to have a suitable cake pan. That is why the baker always meticulously selects the cake pan and baking tray. Depending on the size and type, there are different cake pan. Below we will share some of the most basic cake pan and trays you will need in your kitchen.
1. Muffins fin/ cupcakes
For starters, muffins and cupcakes are the simplest and easiest to make. So you should have yourself these types of mold. The common material that makes muffins fin / cupcakes is silicone and metal. The mold has 2 types: instant mold and 12-hole mold.
In addition to the muffins fin / cupcakes, there are paper molds with small size, durable and colorful, attractive, vivid textures.
Muffins fin / cupcakes molds have many styles, cute colors2. Cake pan pastry
For cakes such as gato cakes, cakes, you need to use a different mold from other cakes. Depending on the size of the cake you want to make, there are many mold sizes. Molds made of high-quality materials help shape the cake in the oven, keeping the shape without melting or crumbling.
Cake pan pastry instant bottomThere are currently two types of cakes pan for making cakes: removable bottom molds and instant bottom molds. The removable bottom is always more expensive than the instant bottom, but in return it has many advantages that make baking easier. A note for those who buy pastry molds is to buy dark molds because they have a better ability to absorb heat so that the cakes cook quickly and evenly. When choosing a dark colored mold, the baking temperature must be 10 to 15 degrees lower than the light-colored mold.
3. Pipe mold
This is a special type of cake mold with many tubes in the middle to help the cake when baked in the oven and expanded evenly. Tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but the most popular are Angel Food Cake and Bundt molds. Angel Food Cake Mold is a type of mold commonly used in making soft cakes based on air bubbles in egg whites and Bundt molds are specialized in baking fat cakes such as pound cake, butter cake, ...
4. Loaf pan
Loaf pan molds are often used for pillow bread, pound bread or other types of fast bread (coconut bread, banana bread ...). Depending on the size of the cake and the needs of each family, you can choose the type of mold with large or small sizes.
5. Pie/Tart
Pie molds usually have a low wall, shaped like a round disk. Traditional Pie molds have a mouth diameter of about 23cm and a height of 3-4cm. Cast walls may sometimes have wavy borders. Meanwhile, the tart mold has a loose bottom, the mold border is usually wavy and the mold is lower than the pie mold. In addition to the conventional circular tart, there is also a square, triangle, etc.
Pie mold has wavy borders6. Baking tray is rectangular
A rectangular baking tray helps to bake cream cheeses, cookies, rolls or roasted whole grains. Or you can use a rectangular baking tray to store water baked water with cakes such as Flan, Cheesecake. Note: do not use the baking tray that comes with the oven because it is easy to burn the base of the cake due to the unstable temperature.
The rectangular baking tray helps to bake multiple cakes at once7. Mousse ring round bottom tray
Mousse ring trays are basically circles or cake molds but without the bottom, they are often made as tiramisu, mousse, ... The product has many sizes with different sizes. When using, you pour ingredients into the mold to wait for freezing then just remove the circle from the cake is done.
Mousse ring round bottom mold
8. Ramekin cake mold
Made of high heat-resistant porcelain material, small size with many different colors, Ramekin cake mold suitable for making flan, carmen, souffle, ... Or you can use to make salty dishes such as baking vegetables with salad.
Ramekin baking tray with different colors creates an extremely cute cake
The above types of baking molds and baking trays above are probably more or less helping those who are initially getting used to making cakes more easily in choosing products. Hopefully, here you will find the right mold for your upcoming cake to make it easier.
