Jan 2012 What’s the best way to make fancy cakes without hours of heartache? Use novelty cake tins and all that messing around with different-sized bits of cake, shoring broken parts of your creation back up with fondant icing only to have the whole thing collapse on you when you put the candles on, is a thing of the past.
Novelty cake tins work like this: you grease ‘em, you pour in your cake mixture and you bake. Forty minutes later, or whatever, your novelty cake tins are whipped out of the oven, emptied, and – presto. Perfect, fancy shaped cakes. Thank you, novelty cake tins.
You can get novelty cake tins to suit any occasion, any style and any shape. A brief search for novelty cake tins on the good old world wide web reveals novelty cake tins shaped like witches, cars, pumpkins, footballers, animals, Christmas trees: one suspects, if you search hard enough, you’ll even find novelty cake tins shaped like Barack Obama. Most novelty cake tins are themed around festivities (Easter novelty cake tins; Christmas novelty cake tins) or kids’ party standards – animal novelty cake tins, or novelty cake tins based on popular sports. Then, of course, you’ve got your “mini baking” novelty cake tins: novelty cake tins designed to make cupcakes and angel cakes look spectacular. Mini novelty cake tins come in multipacks, so you can make batches of fun miniatures – novelty cake tins like fake mini tier cakes or realistic-looking sit-up teddy bears.
Novelty cake tins don’t just do cakes. If you think about it, novelty cake tins are shaped just right for jellies and trifles, too. For baking, novelty cake tins are built from professional-quality metals that have superb heat distribution: when cooking something irregularly shaped, heat distribution is essential so you don’t end up with a fairytale castle whose turrets are burned but whose courtyard isn’t cooked.
This heat distribution technology enables modern novelty cake tins to be intricately detailed without jeopardising their taste or finish. As a result, even the most run of the mill chef can produce stunning edible centrepieces for any occasion. Gone are the days of struggling with unwieldy bits of sponge, producing a lopsided edifice that elicited a chorus of “what’s that?” from the assembled masses. With novelty cake tins in your cooking armoury, you’ll be guaranteed gasps of delight every time. Never worry about disappointing the little ones, or messing up that all-important celebration cake again: invest in a few novelty cake tins and you’ll be turning out professional quality baked goods in no time.