A quick scan through the list of available Wilton novelty cake tins shows exactly what we mean. There look to be some 300 varieties of Wilton novelty cake tins, ranging (in alphabetical order) from the 101 Dalmations Wilton novelty cake tins to “Ziggy”, an American cartoon character from way back when. Bestselling Wilton novelty cake tins include the perennial Winnie the Pooh (yes, it’s the Disney version), Superman and Batman in particularly heroic pose – imagine delivering a Caped Crusader birthday cake to your little ones!
It’s all very well, one might think, for Wilton novelty cake tins to make baking cakes that look like popular kids’ characters easy. What about decorating them? Even the most brilliantly-designed of Wilton novelty cake tins, after all, can’t decorate itself: and a great shaped cake, sloppily decorated, is more depressing than a badly-shaped cake that looks like you at least tried. Fortunately, Wilton novelty cake tins are supplied with instructions on how to decorate so the cake looks like it did on the box. You can pick up Wilton novelty cake tins decorating instructions online, too, so when you lose the originals you know you’ve got back up. The instructions supplied by Wilton novelty cake tins are pretty useful – sometimes it can be difficult to translate the intricately-ridged cake you just pulled out of the oven to its intended end result. Thanks to Wilton novelty cake tins’ easy-to-follow decorating guidelines, none of that has to matter.