How to Line Your Cake Pan with Parchment Paper

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

How to Line Your Cake Pan with Parchment Paper

CHOW.com Senior Food Editor Jill Santopietro has a trick for home cooks who have trouble sizing parchment paper for a round cake pan. Instead of trying to guesstimate the radius of your circle, fold the paper into a smaller triangle and cut it to fit. That way, when you open the paper into a circle, it should match your pan perfectly.

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  • Not to mention a total Rube Goldberg. Here's how you do it: put the pan on top of parchment (double the paper for 2 pans, etc) Run the tip of your scissors around the pan to lightly score the paper. Remove pan, cut out circle. It takes me about 20 seconds.

  • Apparently I'm not the only one that noticed how imperfectly fitting that was... I hate to say it, but the demonstration was a bit of a fail.

  • Perfectly fitting? Right...