The Novelty of Cake Pans...

If you have kids or go to a lot of theme parties (superbowl, halloween, birthday etc) then you should pay attention to this post!

I'm very into trying to craft my cakes into my desired shape by hand, but somethings are too intricate & detailed for the human hand (mine anyway). During these circumstances, I resort to one of my favorite bakeware lines: Nordicware.

Not only is Nordicware made in an eco-friendly way, but they have a huge variety of shapes to satisfy almost any cake shape requirement! From sand castles to trains, flowers to sea shells, hearts, roses and creatively shaped bundt cakes...Nordicware can do it all. Bakeware.com is a great place to find good deals on these pans too...much more reasonable than Williams Sonoma (which I love...but my wallet cannot always afford).

I have a coworker whose birthday was earlier this week. He is the ULTIMATE Boston sports fan...to the point where the walls surrounding his department's desks are covered in news clippings, ticket stubs & posters. What better cake to make for him than a stadium - with the help of Nordicware, I was able to create a cake that blew his sports passion-filled mind away:

Here is the Nordicware pan that I used - pretty cool, huh?

I used mini chocolate chips for the "people"...sugar cookies for the floor & for the back boards, mini-reeses for the hoops, vanilla icing for the majority of the cake, and then piped green royal icing for the details.