Hi! I'm Sandy Sheppard, Master Cake Decorator and I am here today to show you three different tips. They'll probably cut this in three videos, but the first tip on how to fill up your cake pan so that you end up with a nice leveled cake. Let me show you real nice leveled cake. This cake is nice and leveled, and that's the way we want our cakes to look, so that when we put them together they have a very professional look to them.
First tip is to make sure to fill up your pans properly. I have some cake batter here, a nice chocolate cake that I've mixed up. You want to fill up your pans approximately half full. Now, this will depend upon your recipe. Some recipes require you to fill them up full, because they don't rise this well. But I know that this cake recipe fills up two eight-inch pans, and so if I fill up both pans equally, then it will be very nice. See how handy that spatula is, it cleans every little bit out of that pan. Ta-dah! And I'll just spread that around real nice and easy in my pans, and there we go. As you can see both pans are approximately half full and they are nice and leveled.
Okay, my next little step for helping your pans, your cake to bake nice and flat, like this one has. Now that's the bottom of the pan, but that's the top of the cake, and it is very nice and flat. I have three tips for that. One is making sure your cake pan is filled properly. The second one is to wrap it with a toweling strip. This is just from an old bath towel that I have cut in strips that fit the depth of the pan. I have taken this over to my sink and gotten it nice and wet and squeezed out the excess water so that it's wet.
Now I take this towel strip, put it around my pan, just wrap it nice and gently; and where did my little t-pin go? Okay, and then I bought this t-shape pin, I don't know how well you can see that there, but this little t-pin and it's called that because it looks like a letter T. You could buy at any fabric department store, any department store that has fabrics and such. Then I take this and I am just going to pin right through the layers of the toweling to hold it together, and now it's ready to be baked.
Now, if the cake comes out of the oven and it's not nice and leveled, there is one more trick that I have to show you. Take it out of your oven, and as soon as it comes out of the oven, now this one is pretty leveled, but as soon as it comes out of the oven take a nice dry towel, say terrycloth towel so it's fairly thick, I have it folded in half, I lay it across the hot cake and gently press it, and flatten the top of the cake. Ta-dah! That's three tips for helping you to come out with a nice leveled finished cake.
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