Wilton Dimensions Nonstick 3D Skull Pansuperusa

Awesome Pan! Larger than I expected! Serves 16 and easily releases from the mold. I used a Strawberry filling and the fondant glaze. Turned out Beautiful & Delicious! Cleaned up easily. This would be great for Cinco De Mayo using the "Day of the Dead" Cake recipe from Wilton.

This is a heavy duty pan that works very well. My only complaint is that the two halves round when they bake so when you're ready to put the two pieces together you have to cut them to be flat so they can join and form the right shape of the skull. Cutting off the rounded tops turns out to be a good portion of the cake, which seems wasteful to me. I wonder if they could have made this like the teddy bear pan where you clamp the 2 sides together and put a core in and it bakes into 1 nice shape. Maybe we'll see that in a couple of years, but for now this pan actually does produce a GREAT skull shape. I have used it for not only a creepy skull, but I have also made an Iron Man full mask with it, it's great for any sort of head/face you want to create.

I found this at Michael's since Amazon was out of stock. I used a 40% off coupon and paid $21 (pre-tax) for the mold. The mold is well made and heavy duty. It came with a pumpkin spice recipe that called for 65-75 minutes of baking at 325 degrees. I would have liked some suggested baking times for other types of cakes. I made a red velvet cake and instead of the 30 minutes at 350 that my recipe called for, I used the pumpkin cake's baking temp of 325 for 65 minutes. It turned out beautifully, but a bit on the dry side. I may try it for 60 minutes next time to see if that helps any. I made a glaze to pour over, but had trouble making it look good. Glaze suggestions would have been lovely too. I used regular Pam to grease, rather than the floured spray they suggest. My cake turned out shiny and very cool looking! This is supposed to serve twelve, but the skull is a bit smaller than I thought it would be...maybe 8 good sized pieces? I am only giving 4 stars because some helpful... Read more