Baking Pans

Baking Pan Conversions © Randal Oulton Don't feel inadequate because you don't have every baking dish size and shape ever known to mankind just lying about on display in your kitchen. Just stock some standard shapes and sizes, and if a recipe ...

Baking Pans by Dimension © Randal Oulton This is a chart of typical baking pan physical dimensions, with their equivalent volume sizes. The measurements of a baking pan are determined by measuring inside the pan, from edge to edge. Depth is ...

Baking Pans by Volume © Randal Oulton This is a chart comparing volume of baking pans to their typical, manufactured dimensions. It's often important to know the capacity in volume of a baking pan, so you can know if a recipe you are making ...

Bread Pans © Denzil Green Bread Pans are primarily used for baking bread in. They can also be used for breads such as banana breads, or for meatloaf. They can be made of metal, stoneware, CorningWare, glass, silicone, terra cotta or enamelware. ...

French Bread Pans are two or three long half-tubes joined at the sides, used for baking baguettes in. The assumption in the name is that the type of French bread you want to make is a baguette -- because of course there are a zillion other kinds of...

Pullman loaf pan © Denzil Green Pullman loaf pans (aka Pullman bread pans) make a perfectly rectangular loaf of bread that is consistent in width and height for its entire length, so that when sliced it yields consistently-sized, perfectly square ...

Cake Pans © Randal Oulton A Cake Pan is a pan designed to bake a cake in, in an oven. The pan can be square, round, or rectangular. There are also speciality shaped ones, such as fire trucks, space ships, etc, though you may be hard pressed ...

Baking Cups © Denzil Green Baking Cups are used to line muffin tins when making cupcakes, muffins or fairy cakes. Their use generally replaces greasing or greasing and flouring the cups. They are made of pleated wax-treated paper or pleated ...

Bundt Pan © Denzil Green A Bundt® Pan is a trademarked line of Fluted Tube Pans for baking cakes in. All the pans have decorative moulded sides, and a hollow tube or space coming up through the middle. They are usually made of heavy cast a...

Cheesecake Pans are special pans for making Cheesecake in. They can be round or rectangular. They have two-parts. One whole piece consists of the sides with bottom ledges on them, all joined. The second piece is a bottom that fits into this, sliding...

A Flan Pan is a round, shallow cake pan, whose bottom is raised in the centre, causing the cake when turned out of the pan inverted to have a plateau in the middle with raised edges around it.In Germany, the pan is called an "Obsttortenform", ("fruit...

A Fluted Tube Pan is a pan for baking cakes in. It has fluted sides, and a hollow tube coming up through the middle. It is like a tube cake pan (aka Angel Food Cake pan) with the exception of the sides. When turned out of the pan, a caked baked in...

Jelly Roll Pans are about the size of a large rimmed cookie sheet, except the edges are higher -- about 1 inch (2 1/2 cm) tall. They are used to make a big, shallow sponge cake that is then rolled up to make a jelly roll (aka Swiss Roll.) They can...

Kugelhopf Pans are essentially the same as Fluted Tube Pans. They are used to make Kugelhopf Cakes.The tube in the middle allows heat to penetrate cake from the centre in. The fluted design of the edges allows for more surface of the cake to get browned,...

A Mary Ann Pan is a cake pan with a raised flat centre area. Its purpose is to create a light cake shell. A cake baked in one, when turned out, has a raised edge all around it. The pan will usually be 8 inches (20 cm) wide by 4 inches (10 cm) tall....

A Muffin Tin is a baking dish used to make American-style muffins (not English muffins), or cupcakes. It is a series of metal cups connected by a flat metal surface. The cups connect to the metal surface at the lip of each cup.Jumbo-sized muffin tins...

With a springform cake pan, you don't remove the cake from the pan: you remove the pan from the cake.

A Tube Pan looks like a pan for a very large doughnut. It is used for sponge and angel food cakes. It is a deep, ring-shaped pan with a tall tube in the centre. The tube is hollow, with no bottom on it, to allow hot air to pass through it like a...

Casserole Dish Sizes © Randal Oulton Casserole Dishes are usually made of glass, cast iron, enamelled cast iron, or earthenware. They come in varying sizes and shapes, round or square or oblong. They have deep sides and close-fitting covers. ...

A Cookie Sheet is a flat sheet of metal designed for baking, usually cookies (aka biscuits.)It can also be used for baking many other things from wiener wraps to braided breads, oven fries to cinnamon rolls. Cookie Sheets are usually made of aluminum...

Tassie Cups is a term that can mean both the cups (indentations) in a muffin tin, and, the small tart shells made of pastry. If a recipe says "Buy (or make) tassie cups", it means pastry shells. Otherwise, the recipe will specify something such...