X-Haibei 3D Castle Cake Pan Chocolate Gelatinas Ice Cream Bakeware Silicone Mold Dia. 9 inch

I softened some vanilla ice cream and pressed it into the mold and froze it. It came out of the mold super easy and looked wonderful. I poured some magic shell down the sides of the castle and then cut it like a cake in slices. People loved it! So many things you can do with this mold. I even put little toothpick flags on the tops of the towers for a special touch! You don’t get to pick the color of the mold that you get though. I would love an orange one but I got a blue one.

I bought this to make a sandcastle cake for my sons first birthday. It turned out sooo cute. Of course the end sandcastle looks a little different that the mold, but that is because I frosted th cake and add "sand" crushed vanilla wafers on it. I also add higher towers. Before I did all that the cake looked exactly like the mold. It was super easy to bake in and the cake came out very easy from the mold. Also it was super easy to clean. I just flipped it inside out.

Very nice silicone pan... with some foil around the edges I had no issues filling it up with batter. However... be sure to use a bundt cake recipe, standard cake mix will not work in this mold. I had one fail to bake thru and the second one over baked and cracked apart. A bundt cake mixture would bake up best in this pan. It also worked well with rice-krispy treats.

This product came with absolutely no instructions. Here is what I did: I liberally sprayed the inside with butter/flour spray (Baker's Joy no stick baking spray with flour) I used a Betty Crocker cake mix (1 cup water, 1/2 cup oil, 3 eggs). Once mixed, I poured a bit into each turret and tamped the batter down to fill up all the little nooks. I put the rest of the batter in the mold and tamped it all a bit to insure that there were no air pockets. I baked it at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. (I treated it as I would a bundt cake).I put the mold on a baking sheet, for stability. Once baked, I let it cool a bit, and then cut off the raised portion so that the cake would sit flat (it bulged up over the top of the pan). I decided to let it cool completely before removing it from the mold. It came out well, no issues. This is my prototype before I make one for my grandson's birthday. I think any little kid would love it.

Product design fail. There is a cutout hole in the mold therefore you cannot pour batter in to make a castle.

The cake mold works great. Only issue I found was if you use a box mix it doesn’t fill the mold completely. The bottom part of the castle mold is missing.

This was really great. I sprayed it with cooking spray and it popped right out after it cooled a bit. It was so fun and looked awesome.

This definitely needs to still be sprayed with baking stuff for release before using. Definitely have to set it on a cookie sheet because it is SO floppy and thin. It will not sit on the rack on it's own even full without messing up. Cooks very differently. Takes a few tries before getting it right.