Cake Heating Core

This is particularly handy when baking cakes in a home oven or when baking large cakes such as the base tier of a wedding cake.

Cake heating core.

I also use flower nails or heating cores that look like flower nails. Get it as soon as fri sep 11. Remove rods after baking. Place heating rod at the bottom of the pan in the deepest part with the flat head on the bottom.

Improve baking results use one or more heating rods to improve baking results with deeper larger and novelty shaped cake pans. A heating core is recommended by professionals for use on cakes that exceed 9 in diameter and are 3 or 4 deep. This item ateco cake heating core set of 4 wilton w4023007 flower nail for icing 1 5 inch no 7 ateco standard plastic couplers for use cake decorating tubes and bags set of 4 4 count white. I have one like this fat daddio heating core and another one the one on the right not sure what brand it is.

First you ll obviously need your pans and your heating cores. Cake flower nail lifters set flower nails cake decorating stainless steel baking tools cake heating core reusable cake decorating tools baking set 6pcs 5 0 out of 5 stars 2. Large cakes tend to get over baked around the outsides so i use this for all sizes. To ensure even baking for large cakes over 10 inches round usually some bakers will use a cake heating core.

After i posted 3 ways to avoid domed cakes i had a few readers ask me how to use a heating core so i took a few pics to show you. Prep the pan as usual. Heat radiates through the cake from the sides of the baking pan and while not a problem for smaller cakes larger pans will easily be overdone on the sides before they are finished in the center. Fill the pan with batter.

The heating core is a nifty gadget that helps radiate heat into the center of large or deep cakes reducing baking time and allowing for a more even rise and a more evenly baked cake.