Baking cakes and pastries has become more and more popular, and you want in on the action.
Hence, your desire for choosing a cake pan for your next baking project.
You're not even sure what type of cake you'll be baking next, whether it'll be a traditional round or square cake, or perhaps a neat shaped cake.
With so many options to choose from, it can be difficult for a novice baker to decide on a shape, or type of cake pan.
Plus, there's so much to consider before you shell out your hard earned money on a new pan.
You have to decide what kind of cake you'll be baking, and the occasion you're baking it for.
Many first time, or new bakers will just use whatever cake pans they have available at home.
This is an amateur move.
If you want to impress whomever you're baking a cake for, just imagine what they'd think if you showed up with a cake in the shape of their favorite sport, or cartoon character, or hobby, instead of a plain old round or square cake.
You'd knock their socks off, with not only how delicious your cake is, but also with how much thought you obviously put into choosing the right shape, and decorating it.
Don't worry, since most first timers, or anyone new to baking will make similar mistakes.
They'll just grab whatever cake pans they happen to have available, and bake away.
They won't even consider putting some thought into the whole baking process.
Don't bake boring cakes.
You want to show them that you really care about them and bake a shaped cake instead.
In order to figure out what shape of cake pan to choose from, you'll have to know who you're baking the cake for.
Is it for your child or a significant other? Is it for one or your parents? Is it for a friend? Once you know who you're baking for, you then have to decide what they enjoy.
It can be something they enjoy doing, or participating in.
It can be a sport or game.
It can be a cartoon character from a TV show, or a movie.
It can be just about anything, so long as it's something that they really like.
For example, if it's your husband, and if he's anything like mine, then he loves football.
Why not bake him a football shaped cake for his birthday, or maybe even for a Super Bowl party if it's that time of the year.
If it's for one of your kids, then maybe they'll enjoy a Sponge Bob shaped cake.
My daughter loves Tinker Bell, so for her birthday last year, I baked her cake using the Tinker Bell face cake pan.
You get the picture.
Once you figure this stuff out, then it's really easy choosing a cake pan.
By using the tips I've outline in this article, you'll be baking the best cakes.
I don't just mean the best tasting, but also the best looking.
Plus, because they're in a shape that they enjoy, they'll get a kick out of their cake, and will really know how much you care.