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Summary: How to pre-heat the oven and prepare the pan to bake a sheet cake; get expert tips on baking homemade dessert recipes in this free cooking video.
Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel and Food Management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop and launch a gourmet food...read more
"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we're going to preheat our oven and prepare our pans. It's important to preheat your oven before you start so that the oven is completely up to temperature when it's time to put your cake in. For a conventional oven we're going to use the temperature 350 degrees. For a convection oven that moves the air around in the oven, we'll use a lower temperature 300 degrees because the movement of the air cooks the cake faster. I'm going to show you two ways to prepare your pans. If you're just going to serve your cake right in the pan and you're not planning to take it out, it's fine to just grease and flour the pan. Just take a healthy amount of a margarine or shortening or oil and rub that all over the pan and this is a good method, but sometimes it won't release the cake as easily as you'd like. Rub that nice and evenly and dust with flour and just shake that flour all over the pan, I think I need a little bit more and all over the edges and then you're ready."
eHow Article: Preparing The Oven & Pan To Bake Sheet Cake
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nancy64 said
on 4/30/2009 Karen mentioned that there were two ways to prepare sheet pan... I would like to know how to prepare pan for removal from pan to a cake tray. It looks like she used parchment paper... is it greased again on top of paper?
cherrylyn1 said
on 8/2/2008 nice method for baking cake.i love it and it gives me some ideas that i have to correct next time, i will do baking .thank you so much for the baking video i really appreciate it,,i learn so much and also about how to decorate the icing on the cake .FANTASTIC........