Silicon Bundt Pan?

Flower97

Thu, Mar 19 2015, 3:08 pm

I have a silicon bundt pan and a regular non stick one. Is one better then the other? I have never worked with the silicon pan.

Amarante

Sun, Mar 22 2015, 11:56 am

I love Bundt cakes. In my experience, silicone is not as good a material for baking as metal. Silicone does not conduct heat as well as metal which is why it's used for barbecue mitts :-). The cake isn't baked as evenly and it doesn't brown well. Perhaps a temperature adjustment might help as one has to do when when uses glass pans to bake instead of metal.

I have no problem with cakes sticking in my Bundt pan. They need to be oiled and floured. Spraying with one of the combination oil/flour sprays is the easiest but one can always use the old fashioned method of oiling with paper towel/pastry brush and then shaking flour around so all the crevices are nicely coated with a thin layer of flour.