Cake sticking in pan and won’t come out.

Hi Mike!

Toffee bits tend to stick to the bottom of a pan when they are cooked.

I would suggest after spraying with non-stick cooking spray to line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. You can also grease and flour the pan but parchment paper will guarantee nothing sticks.

Make sure to cut around the edges and let the cakes cool before flipping them out of the pans.

Hope this helps!

I would line the pan with parchment paper.

You can cut ribbons of parchment paper, create an x so that the parchment paper is longer and falls over the cake pan but meets in the middle and then layer it around the sticky sides where its getting caught. You should be able to finesse it out of the pan.

Since the toffee candy is a sticky element that will bond the batter to the cake pan, next time I'd spray it, flour bottom and sides tapping out the excess flour. Let cool for 10 minutes, no longer. If you let a cake cool too long in the pan, it will stick. Take a sharp thin knife and cut around the circumference between the cake and the pan side. Invert over a rack, (sometimes you have to sort of rap it against the table to release fully). Sometimes, if the bottom seems to be starting to stick, if it's a firm-textured cake you can take a small offset spatula and jimmy it under to gently lift it, going around and around and being careful not to break the cake, then invert on the rack to release.

Are you lining the bottom of your cake pans with parchment paper?