Boil a teakettle of water place a clean kitchen towel in your sink and very carefully pour some of the hot water over the towel the towel should be damp but not dripping.
Pound cake stuck in bundt pan.
Then remove it from the freezer and hit the bottom of the pan on the countertop.
Maybe you forgot to grease your cake pan.
Preheat your oven to 250 f.
Even with proper greasing some cakes still stick to the pan.
3 minutes if it s a drier recipe like chiffon cake 5 minutes if it s on the moist side like pound cake.
Let the cake cool completely.
The broken pieces the crumbs and don t even get us started on cleaning off the pan.
Regardless of why it happened your cake is stuck to its cake pan and hours of mixing baking and toiling over your masterpiece are about to be wasted on a crumbly if tasty mess.
Out of all the baking fails cakes that get stuck to the pan is probably among the worst of them.
Put the cooked cake that is still stuck in the bundt pan into the 250 degree oven.
Once preheated bake the bundt for 3 to 5 minutes.
Maybe you simply greased it improperly with the wrong ingredients such as salted butter unsalted works best.
Here s how i get the cake out of the pan in one piece.
To grease a bundt pan take a dollop of shortening on a paper towel and wipe the interior of the pan.
My tips and tricks for how to prevent bundt cake from sticking because there s nothing more frustrating than your cake getting ruined because it stuck to the pan.
As tempting as it is to throw your homemade cake recipe in the trash don t.
Stuck bundt solution 2.
Place a plate upside down on the opening of the bundt pan then flip the pan upside down.
If your bundt cake is stuck in the pan or you re second guessing if you greased and floured the pan well enough try steaming the cake out.
To avoid bundt cake disaster try these simple methods for releasing a stuck bundt from the pan in mostly one piece.
If the cake still doesn t come out leave it upside.
If the cake is still stuck pop it in the freezer for a few minutes.
After it is cool heat your oven to 250 degrees.
Then flip the cake over and shake it onto a serving plate tapping the bottom of the pan if necessary.
Catherine and our test kitchen staff always use shortening to grease bundt pans yes even ones with nonstick coating.
Tap along the sides of the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen the sides.
The best way to ensure your cake comes out of the pan cleanly is to grease it well from the start.
You want to get into.
But when it came time to invert the pan the cake fell out in clumps delivering a crushing blow to my bundt cake dreams.
T here s nothing more frustrating than spending time effort and money on making what you hope will be a beautiful cake only to have it stick to the pan and be completely ruined.
If your cake is stuck to your pan you can easily fix it by prying the sides of the cake loose with a butter knife and sliding a flexible spatula under the cake to pry the bottom free.
Perfect bundt shaped coffee cake.
Take it out and flip upside down onto a platter.
