You know that scary moment when you’re about to take a freshly baked cake out of the pan and you’re afraid it’s going to fall apart? Food52 offers a simple and smart solution: use two cooling racks.
Picture: Ginny
After detaching the cake (still hot or cooled) from the sides of the pan with a knife or spatula, cover the pan with a rack; hold the rack and pan together and flip the whole business over. Remove the pan and peel off the parchment liner (you used one, didn’t you?). To turn the cake right side up again (to prevent the top of the cake from sticking to the rack as it cools), place the second rack on the cake, hold the two racks together gently, without squeezing the cake, and repeat the flip.
That’s it! No more worrying about your cake coming out in more than one piece.
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One response to “Get Cakes Out Of Their Pans More Easily With Cooling Racks”
OMG! Who would have ever thought of this? MIND BLOWN. Seriously though, great idea but people have been doing this for years, my Nana did this to get cakes out of tins, like 70 years ago
Sadly, the internet and television have addled the minds of today’s youth, such that this kind of trickery will soon be denounced as witchcraft.
Next we’ll be told you can cut and paste with scissors and actual paste.