Use Parchment Paper to Prevent Sticking!
Mountainside Bakery • September 2, 2021
Baking tip graphic: use parchment paper to prevent sticking; shows two baking cups, one with stuck crumbs.

Having trouble with your cake sticking to the bottom of your pans? Use parchment paper to prevent sticking! It will help you get clean cake layers every time. This is especially helpful when baking larger cake layers. You don’t want to go through all of that work just to have it stick! Below are instructions on how I prepare my cake pans.

How to Prepare Cake Pans:

1. Pour a little oil into the pan (I use avocado oil) and spread around with a paper towel.

Olive oil being poured from a bottle into a small white bowl on a wooden surface.
White tissue paper in a small metal bowl on a dark wooden surface.

2. Sprinkle some flour into the pan and coat by shaking it around. (Best to do over the sink)

A metal bowl of water with a small white mound, resting on a dark wooden table.
White ceramic bowl on a wooden surface.

3. Take some parchment paper and keep folding in half until you have a small triangle. Hold above the cake pan with the point in the middle and measure where to cut the edge of the circle.

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Broken white ceramic bowl and two shards on a wooden surface

4. Unfold the parchment paper and make sure it fits. If it is too big just refold and trim a bit more off.

White bowl and round coffee filter on a wooden surface.
White ceramic bowl on a wooden table with a clear liquid inside

Now you are ready to place your cake batter into the pans and bake it! It is an easy extra step to use parchment paper to prevent sticking. And it will make taking your cake out of your pans a lot less stressful! Below you can see how much this helps. I baked one layer with parchment paper (right) and one without (left). There is a big difference!

Two small white bowls on a wooden table, one with dark residue and one mostly empty with crumbs.

You can also see that it will help you with clean up as well! Less scrubbing needed with the cake pan on the right that had the parchment paper. And parchment paper is not limited to cake pans, I also like to use it for my baking sheets as well. You can even order pre-cut parchment paper for your baking sheets, which saves time when making a lot of cookies! Basically, parchment paper can help a lot while baking, use it when you can!

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