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You know that moment when you’ve spent hours making the perfect cheesecake, and now you’re staring at it in the springform pan, terrified to move it? I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. That first time I tried to transfer a cheesecake to a cake board, I was convinced I’d end up […]

You know that sinking feeling when you’ve just baked the most gorgeous cheesecake of your life, and then it refuses to leave the pan? I’ve been there—multiple times, actually—standing in my kitchen with a spatula, trying to coax stubborn cake away from metal while muttering words I won’t repeat here. After years of trial and […]

I’ll never forget the first time I tried to remove a cheesecake from a regular cake pan. Let’s just say it involved a lot of spatula work, some creative language, and a dessert that looked like it had survived a small earthquake. My mother-in-law took one look at the crumbled mess on the serving plate […]

I’ll never forget the first time I reached for my springform pan to bake a regular birthday cake. My traditional round pans were dirty, sitting in the sink from an earlier baking session, and I had frosting to make, decorations to prep, and guests arriving in a few hours. That springform pan sitting in my […]

I’ll never forget the first time I confidently poured my angel food cake batter into a springform pan. I thought I was being clever—no more struggling to extract delicate cakes from regular pans, right? Wrong. So incredibly wrong. That experience taught me an expensive lesson about which cakes actually belong in a springform pan and […]