Keith L. Walker

Denman Island, British Columbia

Tube Pan Rack

Abstract

The problem: How to extract a cake from a bundt or tube pan in one piece.

The tube gives the pan twice the surface area, which is good for even baking, but bad for extracting the cake. If you try to put a regular cake rack over the pan to flip the cake out, the tube gets in the way. The result is that the cake comes out unevenly and tends to fall apart.

The solution is to modify a standard cake rack.

Construction

I used bolt cutters to snip the two centre wires of a cake rack. I then used pliers to bend the wires back to hook over the adjacent wires. (See photo.) The size of the square hole will depend on the spacing of the wires of the rack and the size of the bundt pan's tube. The tube has to fit through the hole.

Figure 1

To use the rack, invert it so the feet point upwards, and place it over the tube pan so that the tube pokes through the hole in the rack. Then, quickly flip the pan and rack over so that the cake drops out onto the rack.

The modified rack can still be used as a regular cake rack.

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