Sales Rank: 3488


Features:

30-year limited warranty

Makes one- to three-layer cakes or a multibatter tiered cake

Made of heavyweight, rustproof metal with nonstick SilverStone finish

Set includes a plastic batter divider

Each pan measures 9 inches in diameter

Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Buy
Very easy to use with both homemade receipe or from any box cake mixes. Great hit at parties, special treat for home, and great for pot luck or church dinners. Recommened it highly and has unlimited use for exceptional variations on cake design. Great for the beginner or expert cook. Wonderful letting kids help prepare something special. Even my six year old loves to help.

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Rating: - cooking tip for a nice looking checkerboard
I used to have a checkerboard cake pan that I loved. I finally returned it to my sister after "borrowing" it for about five years, so I am ordering this one to replace it. The old one was metal, so I'm pleased with the new plastic separators that come with this one. I experimented a lot with different cake mixes, and discovered that the thicker the batter the less the two flavors bleed into each other--for a more even checkerboard look. The best mix I have found was Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Golden for the light part and Butter Recipe Chocolate for the dark. They taste great too. I'm sure other butter recipe cake mixes would work well too.

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Rating: - Not As Easy As It Seems
Am I the only person who ever bought this and tried to use regular boxed cake mixes with it? For anyone who hasn't tried it yet, guess what, you may end up with a huge mess. First, about half of a batch of boxed mix is all that will fit into these very shallow pans. (Remember you need two colors for a checkerboard effect.) Second, you really have to use the same brand and type of cake mix for both colors. If they don't rise and bake at the same rate, your checkerboard will look more like marble cake. My suggestion is that instead of using two different flavor cake mixes, just use a white cake mix and divide it into two parts. Color half with food coloring to give you the checkerboard effect. The directions say to fill pans no more than half-way, and they aren't kidding. I cut off and threw away more than was left in the pan on my first try. Maybe it depends on the mix, and how much it rises. The third problem should have been obvious, but I'm not that clever. This is a THREE LAYER CAKE so it won't fit into any of my domed cake plates, and a single batch of icing was not enough. Anyway, I cook more for pleasure than necessity, and this was just a little more annoying than I had planned. I'm not giving up, but the pursuit of the perfect checkerboard cake has so far eluded me.