How To Neatly Remove Cakes From Pans

Some cakes are just hard to remove neatly from pans.

If you don't leave them in long enough before you turn them out, sometimes the pan is old, sometimes it doesn't seem greased and floured well enough.
And the cake rips and some is left in the pan.

An easy way to avoid that problem to to use parchment paper to line the bottom of your pan.

To do this you need to cut the paper to fit the bottom of the pan.

Now, grease the whole pan. Don't flour though.

Lay the parchment over the bottom of the pan. Grease the parchment paper.

Now, you flour the whole pan.

When it is time to turn the cake out of it's pan, loosen the sides of the cake from the pan.

Take a plate or serving platter the size of your cake or even a little larger and turn it face down over the cake in the pan.

Quickly flip the pan and plate over so the pan is cake down over the plate.

Carefully lift up the cake pan. The cake should be laying on the plate.

Peel off the parchment paper.

To turn the cake right side up, take another plate and put it over the bottom and flip it again.

If you plan to use this method for cheesecakes, wait til the cake has been chilled well so it is firm enough to stay together.

Preparing Your Baking Pans

When you are baking, your recipe always specifies if you need to prepare your pans in any special way.

But sometimes you can do things a bit differently and still have fabulous results.

When the recipe states to grease the pan, use solid shortening, not cooking oil.
Butter can also be used. But, shortening is recommended.

For pizza crusts, many times you can just sprinkle your pan or stone with cornmeal instead of using shortening. But, use shortening if you are making a pan pizza so the crust won't stick to the sides of the pan.

When making cookies, instead of greasing the pan you can line it with parchment paper. You can also buy silicone mats to line cookie sheets with. The cookies will slide off either the parchment or silicone mat lined pans.

For baking goods that call for flouring and greasing the pan, you can buy sprays that are a combination of flour and cooking spray. One brand is Baker's Joy and the other is made by Pam cooking spray.

When you are making something chocolate and you need to grease and flour the pan, instead of flour- use cocoa powder. 
You won't have a white ring show on the brown chocolate.


If you have a non-stick pan, do not use cooking spray on it.
The spray leaves a residue that may build up and be hard to remove.


Hopefully these tips will help you.