Ateco 1449 Stainless Steel Cake Pan Heating Core - 4/Pack, 4" x 3" x 2" (Length x Width x Height)

I wish I knew about heating cores years ago. They work great at ensuring the center of the cake bakes timely and helps prevent tenting. I’d like to find longer ones for deeper cakes. They are very easy to use—just put one where you want it. They look and feel well made; and cleans up easily.

I've only used them for brownies so far, but works great!

I needed to make a 10inch tier for a wedding cake. Found out about baking rods/cores to help with the middle. They work very well. I thought they would be too short and small but they are perfect.

I bought these heat cores because I was baking a 12" cake for the first time and I wanted to make sure the center was cooked. I used only one core in each of the pans, not realizing until too late that I was supposed to use (as per the instructions) 3 cores in each pan. I only had 4 cores and 3 pans, so I just used one in each pan. And the cakes baked perfectly. The centers were cooked, the top was flat, and the edges weren’t over done. So it worked perfectly even though I didn’t use the correct number. But there are a couple of things I don’t like about the heating cores: 1) I think they could be sturdier – they look a little flimsy, and 2) It is a little difficult de-panning the cakes with the cores sticking out like long nails. It would be better if the pointy core/nail separated from the base so that go can easily flip it out onto a flat surface. Other observations: Make sure you spray the base of the heating core with non-stick spray before you pour the batter over it. Or better yet if you are using parchment paper, put the base under the parchment and poke the nail part through the paper. The paper will keep the base of the core from getting stuck to the bottom of the cake.

I have a small home bakery business, and I bought these to use for baking some of my larger cakes (14-16"). They work exactly as described. It helped my cakes bake evenly. I will say that they did slide around a little bit while I was prepping the pans. I use Wilton no-stick spray and it caused them to move out of the center, so you may have to reposition them when you pour the batter in. Other than that, a great purchase!

Does what it says. Prevents doming from n middle of cake especially when making half a sheet cake. I used 3 across the middle and it baked totally flat! I bake from scratch and the cake I made needed 3 cake recipes to fill pan.

Two of them came bent and wobbly. They still work, but I am worried they won’t last long.

these have saved so many of my baking items from overcooking just to get the center cooked. Before i found these i was using one of my big piping tips but it made a mess of some of my baked goods. The only pain about these is you have to make sure you tell people about them and have someone watch for them, i have lost 2 of them at work from people who didn't know what they were and tossed them. When I bake a cake it is fine you bake the cake remove it from the pan and pull the core out. the problem is when you make a coffee cake take it to work in the pan so you cant remove the core. I have found that putting 3 toothpicks around the core warns people it is there and that it is on purpose, don't toss it!!!

No sé específica el tamaño y con toda intención, ya que miden 5 cm de alto y 3 cm de diámetro. Por lo que puedes requerir varios en un solo molde. Las placas son muy filosas. Uno llegó roto y se puede observar mala calidad en su construcción. Mala relación costo beneficio.

You may want to purchase a second set if you want to bake several layers at a time. Far simpler to use than the cone version. They clean up easily. Be prepared for a bit of gentle manipulation when overturning the cake and removing the cores with minimal damage.. I recommend laying a cooling rack over the cake pan so the tines will pass through. Then flip but don't place down on a flat surface until the cake as released. Then gently set down. The cores usually pop out pretty nicely if you're gentle. I generally combine these with bake even strips. Alone no solution is perfect but in conjunction with soak-before-use type strips… you get amazingly flat results.

These are small, work best if you grease them just like your pan, and wash well. The packaging comes with instructions on how to lay them out for different sizes and shapes of pans. I've used them in conjunction with Wilton Bake-Easy Strips with GREAT results. I didn't even have to level the cakes, AT ALL. Great effect for a very small price :)

Works great

These baking rods should be inspected on delivery. Shipping contents might bend the rod plate or connection to the rod plate that needs to sit flat on a cake pan. These can be CAREFULLY bent flat again if not too damaged. Aside from that, the rods serve their purpose, keep the middle of a large cake from ballooning upward and can be thrown into a dishwasher after. If you can make your own stainless steel baking rods, go for it, but these do the job for those with no friends in metal working.