How To Prepare Cake Pans The Sweet Society Way

Preparing your cake pans with parchment paper circles, butter, and flour can be tedious, messy, and honestly, just a pain. We've experimented with many shortcuts when it came to preparing our cake pans, but when cake started sticking, we had to go back to the old butter and flour routine. Here's what worked for us, which proved to be a little more efficient, and at least kept our hands and fingers butter-free.

Supplies For Preparing A Cake Pan

Cake Pan

Parchment Paper

Pencil

Scissors

Pastry Brush

Softened Butter

Flour

Preparing A Cake Pan Step-by-Step Directions

1) Start off by making parchment paper circles. Using parchment paper circles only takes a matter of minutes, and ensures that your cake will release from the pan perfectly each time you use them. Place your cake pan on top of a piece of parchment paper and trace around the bottom of the pan with a pencil.

2) With your scissors, cut within the pencil line that you traced. Don't worry about cutting perfectly within the line. When you're done, try fitting the parchment paper circle into your cake pan to see the fit. You may need to cut just a tad more for it to fit perfectly. Now put this parchment circle to the side for a minute.

3) Grab your room temperature softened butter, a pastry brush, and some flour. We use a pastry brush to apply our butter. It's quick and a lot less messy.

4) Dip your pastry brush in the softened butter and start brushing the butter all over the pan, bottom, sides, creases, everywhere. Be generous with the butter.

5) Place your parchment circle in the pan and then butter on top of the circle. The parchment paper will become less visible as it blends in after you apply more butter.

6) Next, add a tablespoon or so of flour to your cake pan and spread the flour into the pan. Make sure to get the bottom of the pan and the sides. When you have the pan coated with flour, turn the cake pan over and tap the cake pan a little on the bottom and sides to remove the excess flour.

7) There you have it, a perfectly prepared cake pan. We guarantee if you follow these steps you will never have to worry about a cake sticking ever again. Now go get that chocolate cake batter, your pans are waiting.

How To Prepare Cake Pans Sweet Notes

We like to keep butter in a small tupperware container. That way, when we take our ingredients out of the refrigerator to come to room temperature, it's easy to take the butter out as well. When the time come to butter our pans, the butter is nice and soft

We have a designated pastry brush that we use only for applying butter. We wash it with soap and water, squeeze out the excess water and let it stand upright in a cup to dry

When using a pastry brush, be aware that some of the bristles can fall out while brushing on the butter (especially right after purchasing it). Just be conscious of that while brushing on your butter so you can remove the bristle promptly. A bristle free option is purchasing a silicone pastry brush

While we flour most of our cake pans with all-purpose flour, we suggest, flouring a chocolate cake pan with cocoa powder. That way your dark chocolate cake does not have white flour on the corners or edges of the cake