What is the easiest yet lip-smacking dessert you have ever had in your life? What came to your mind? The bundt cakes right? Yeah! That is what I am talking about.
Bundt cakes are simple but still look stunning without any heavy beautifications because their incredible outline just does all the part in adorning. All you will need for decoration would be just some sprinkles, and sugar powder. Did you know these pans are made for making inverted cakes? Yes. The bundt cakes that are formed are inverted cakes because the upper part of the cake actually sits on the base of the bundt pan.
What Is Bundt Pan?
You can say that the bundt pan is actually the same but not so similar to the regular baking pan or cookware. I mean it is the same because it bakes the cake but the bundt pan has a rod coming out from the base and also its base has curvy designs to shape the cake.
So basically, bundt cake is the pan that shapes your cake and bakes it from the center part too. Because in the typical pan the center part is generally not baked without a glitch and therefore tastes hard.
Features Of Bundt Pan
What are the features and what you should keep in mind while buying the bundt pan? Let’s take a quick look at all the features of it.
- Material
Okay, so when you will go bundt pan shopping you will find many types of bundt pans of materials like stone, glass, silicon, in addition,aluminum. Now don’t get all confused after seeing these many pans. From all the research on, use of pans, we have found out that the best one to always buy would be an aluminumbundt pan only, and below is the reason!
The first reason will be that they are very fine conductors of heat plus they bake the cake very best without over-browning the outer sides of the bundt cake. And yes no doubt the stone and the glass material bundt cake pan look so glorious but the end product they give is never worth it. Besides talking about the silicone ones, they don’t give proper shape to the cake, as they let the cake slide once it is baked.
Therefore only aluminum bundt cakes pans are preferred over any other material. And you should always choose the light-colored aluminum bundt pan because the darcolored ones bake the outer part really fast making it brown.
- Size Of Bundt Cake Pans
Most of the bundt cake recipes need a 10 to 12 cup pan but it could differ if you are making something new. A point to always remember would be that do not fill your batter till the very edge of your bundt cake pan because then when the cake will get baled it will overflow leading to mess.
- Non-stick Coating
Just like any other pan these bundt cake baking pans require a non-stick coating, not to exaggerate but they are the ones with the most need of non-stick coating because with all the curves and waves in the design it gets very hard to get the cake perfectly out of the pan.
So, it is always suggested to choose the bundt pan with good non-stick coating, but that doesn’t mean that you will not have to apply grease and flour on the surface of the pan, you should always apply them because they make getting the cake out of pan job easier.
Instruction for this will be not to use any other type of utensil on the non-stick covering of the pan, so if required you can use a rubber spatula when need to get the cake out from the bundt pan.
- Prices Of The Pans
You can get a study and simple bundt cake pan for 10$, there are even places that sell the bundt pans for 5$, and then the price for the pan will keep increasing according to the material and design you choose, but max to max it will be around 25$ to 30$.
- Handles Of The Bundt Pans
Okay, so here’s the thing, handles are not actually a feature of the bundt pans but they do make a big difference because the right handles make your work a lot easier.Bundt pans already have weird shapes and having a perfect handle will help you put the pan in the oven and to get out the baked cake flawlessly.
- Shapes Of The Bundt Cake Pans
Now about this topic, oh man one could write a whole book on this one. Haha! Not really tho, I was just kidding, but no seriously not book but one can absolutely write a whole article about just the shapes of the bundt cake pans.There are a lot of designs and shapes available in the market and online search, of course, their price will differ according to their design, but you will not be lacking creativity for sure.
Uses Of The Bundt Pan
Here are the tips and ladders on how to use a bundt cake pan to make an unspoiled bundt cake.
- Greasing
Your bundt pan has or doesn’t have a non-stick covering doesn’t matter, you should always apply a little oil and flour on the base of the bundt pan because it gets stress-free for you when it is time to take the sweltered cake out of the pan
- Putting batter in the pan
After greasing you put the batter in the pan and then put it in the oven and wait for it to get completely cooked. If you hurry too much and 5ake out the cake beforehand it’s cooked, it will not taste good and also the cake won’t come out flawless.
- Getting the cake out of the pan
Umm. This is quite a crucial step, you should be careful, wear your oven gloves and put another plate on the bundt pan and pull the pan out of the oven and after getting it out invert the pan so that the cake can slide onto the plate.
- Final step
Walking into final step, Now that the cake is out of the pan, you wait for about 10 minutes to let it cool down. And tada! Your delicious bundt cake is ready.
Some Tricks To Get The Cake Out Smoothly
If even after the greasing, your cake does not come out perfectly what you should try keeping butter paper on the surface of the pan, then applying oil on butter paper and then baking it. This way you can take the cake out with the help of butter paper that can be seen after baking the cake.
What Makes The Mold Stick On The Bundt Pan?
Your bundt pan could get damaged if you don’t keep these points in your mind.If you are baking an eggless cake, it will sometimes get difficult for you to take it out, because it has become stiff, so what you could do to take it out without so much effort?
Use plastic or rubber, spatula, or scrapper to get that cake tenderly out of the pan, be gentle with the cake, if done in so much hurry, it will ruin your cake. And you should never ever use any other metal utensil to scrap the cake out of the pan. It will just damage your cake and the bundt pan more.
Benefits Of The Bundt Cake Pans
- The biggest advantage of a bundt pan is its capability to let you bake soaking and compact cakes without varying the other methods of formulating them.
- If you have a small get-together at home, then you can use this chance to astonish your visitors by creating a Bundt cake.
- One of the easiest ways to release a Bundt cake is by using a scraper to remove the top portion of the pan. This technique works by placing the pan on top of a large plate and then turning the pan upside down.
- The washing process of most bundt pans is very laidback since they have a smooth surface. It can also be washed with the help of tender scrubbing.
- Also, they are Teflon-free and with no chemicals so they don’t affect your health in any way.
- They are also not expensive if seen, I mean if you get the 10$ bundt pan for yourself it would be useful to you for 5-6 years if used properly.
- This bundt cake pan can also be used as a bundt jelly pan, you get what I am trying to say? No. the fact that we can add all the jelly ingredients in the bundt pan and just keep it in the refrigerator to freeze and boom in the morning you have the luscious jelly.
- The bundt pans power does not limit to jelly you guys, because some people literally use these bundt pans for meatloaves, the reason behind it is that the bundt cake pan has even cooking property that cooks meatloaf perfectly giving it the yummy flavor.
Conclusion
To sum up, all the points, owning a bundt cake pan is totally worth it, go for it, and enjoy your inverted bundt cake.
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Hi, my name is Ashley Robinson. I’m a food blogger and a part time chef in Food & Drink Junction, Denver. With my blog I’m sharing information & tutorials about different kinds of cooking pans.
