Baking a large cake can be a pain when you don’t have the right tools to do the job. Large cake pans certainly help, as do the right spatulas and other accessories. Everyone has their own definition of what “large” constitutes when it comes to cake pans, so in this post I want to give you some tips for creating large cakes as well as show you the best places to find the exact cake pans that you need.
When searching for large cake pans all of your results usually turn up as cookie sheets, and that is obviously no help to us. The problem that you’re running into is that the larger the cake pan is, the more specialized it is, and is most likely only found in restaurant supply stores. Luckily, there are a few options out there, and I’ll share those with you a little bit later.
If the actual footprint of your cake isn’t important you can always get away with baking lots of smaller (10-12 inch) cakes and stacking them. This obviously creates more work since there is more baking involved, but it can get the job done without the search for the big cake pans.
I’ve heard of people building their own cake pans to suit their needs. I don’t know how to go about doing this, but if you know someone who is a metal smith they might be able to fabricate aluminum cake pans in the exact size that you need, even extra large cake pans. Just make sure that you test any cake pans like that a few times before the big show to know how they work.
I have two 17 inch large round cake pans that are very old and I don’t know where they came from, but that tells me that they are out there. So I’ve put together a set of pans that are roughly the same size, and hopefully work for you. These pans are from online shope, and at the end of the post I also have all of the current listings from here so you can see what they’re offering for large cake pans.
Also, the Fat Daddio’s cut corner pans below come in sizes up to 17 inches, and their round pans come in sizes as large as 16″x4″ and 18″x2″. After you click the link you’ll see a small drop down box to the right of the big picture that allows you to change the size (it took me a while to figure that out!).
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