Search results
Jun 16, 2023 · Baking a perfect upside down cake requires careful timing – you need to allow adequate cooling and setting before attempting to invert the pan. But mastering the gentle release and decisive flip is worth it for the delightfully decorative cakes.
Oct 11, 2018 · Run a knife around the edges of the cake, then invert a serving plate on top of the pan. In one quick motion, flip the cake upside-down. Let the cake sit like this on the plate, but still inside the pan, for a few minutes. Gravity will help the cake release in one piece. Remove the cake pan.
Mar 29, 2021 · As soon as the fruit has stopped bubbling (about one minute), I place a cake plate over the cake and, using hot pads, pick up the rack, cake, and cake plate. Holding all three firmly, in one motion I flip over to invert the cake.
- First Things First: Grease Your Bundt Pan Properly
- Cool Before Flipping
- Cake Not Coming out? Give It A Bang
- No Luck? Let Gravity Do Its Job
- Hiding Imperfections
Taste of Home The best way to ensure your cake comes out of the pan cleanly is to grease it well from the start. Catherine and our Test Kitchen staff always use shortening to grease Bundt pans—yes, even ones with nonstick coating. To grease a Bundt pan, take a dollop of shortening on a paper towel and wipe the interior of the pan. You want to get i...
Taste of Home When you remove your cake from the oven, don’t flip it out of the pan right away! Instead, let the cake cool for ten minutes in the pan. Then, placing the wire rack over the base of the cake, invert the pan. Peek under the wire rack and see if the cake has dropped out. If it has, wonderful news! Remove the pan and let the cake cool co...
If the cake doesn’t immediately come out of the pan after turning it over, there’s no need to stress. “Just give it a bang,” Catherine says. That’s right: Lay a dishtowel on your countertop and (gently) bang the edges of your pan. This can help loosen up the cake from the sides of the pan. This technique is particularly helpful if you baked a fruit...
When turning and tapping don’t work, all that’s left to do is let gravity do the work. “Just flip it and let it sit,” according to Catherine. “Check on it after five to ten minutes.” During that time, the cake has a chance to cool, contract and release from the pan.
Taste of Home Despite our best efforts, sometimes Bundt cakes just don’t come out all in one piece. It’s OK! It happens to the best of us. If you find that just a small chunk (or a few chunks) of the cake is stuck, just patch it together while the cake is still warm. The heat and stickiness of the cake can bind it together. Disguise any imperfectio...
- Lisa Kaminski
Oct 6, 2015 · Caramel + Fruit = Magic. Coating the bottom of a cake pan with caramel and nestling some thinly sliced fruit into it might not seem like magic. But then, after you pour cake batter over it,...
- Anna Stockwell
Nov 5, 2013 · Pcdiane shows off the easiest way to invert a cake onto a platter. ...more.
- 2 min
- 4K
- Diane Mascote McRae
People also ask
Can you flip a cake upside down?
Do you let a cake cool before flipping?
How do you remove a cake from a pan?
How do you flip a cake in a crock pot?
Apr 22, 2022 · How to cool a cake upside down. Syda Productions/Shutterstock. When baking a cake, aim to avoid a domed top — especially if you're making a layer cake. Piecing those uneven layers together will make for a lopsided mess. If your cake has a dome, no worries; this happens from the batter rising in the oven.
