Pyrex

[Vickie_and_Daisy]

Hi all, I'm after baking a dome shaped cake for a birthday next month and I was just wondering if I could use my Pyrex mixing bowl to cook it in???

Firstly, will the bowl withstand the oven?

Secondly, will it cook the batter differently as it is not an even shape and depth? If so, can you alter the temp/cooking time to get it even throughout?

Thanks :)

[redcrx]

pyrex is fine for the oven

ive never tried but as pudding are dome shaped and dont seem to need any differnt cooking times i think you just cook until done.

is it a sponge cake? cook until a skewer poked into it comes out clean.

[society]

Yes you could use pyrex to bake the cake; but from my experiences the sides of a cake baked in pyrex tends to get dark very quickly and sometimes becomes overdone.

[PurpleParis]

I made a sponge cake in a pyrex dish last November...as I was turning it upside down to make a doll cake....it was fine...in fact I was surprised at how well it turned out. make sure you put a round piece of greaseproof in the bottom and grease the sides well. And yes it will cook differently, turn you oven down a bit to what you would a normal cake and cook it slower and keep y0our eye on it...use a skewer to see if cooked....can't remember how long it took but it was fine....go for it!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes I have also done it to make a Pingu Igloo cake for a child and it worked well.

[ethandron]

i used to make a chocolate hedgehog cake in a pyrex bowl. looking at the recipe - 6oz marg & sugar, 3 eggs, 5oz sr flour, 1oz cocoa powder - it says to cook it at 180o for 1 hour in a 2 pint basin and it was always successful.