can you bake a cake in a saucepan?

[sophy]

I need to make a really small cake to be the top tier on ds's "Horrid Henry" style b-day cake. Have got a saucepan just the right size. Will it work if I grease and line it like a cake tin? Anyone else done this?

It should be fine as long as the saucepan is ok to go in the oven.

What is a Horrid Henry style cake? Am impressed with such creativity.

can you put it in the oven? what about the handle?

I'm sure it would be fine........unless it has a plastic handle
I have those all metal ones and have put them in the oven to keep things warm, I dont see why it would be a problem baking a cake.

It's a metal saucepan including the handle so I think it would be OK in the oven.

my grandmother used to do this. she didnt have an oven.
but since she died in 1981, i cant really ask her i'm afraid.

I've seen some cakes in those party books that call for an clean can of some sort to make a particular size of cake - so a sauce pan should be fine

It's the cake in Horrid Henry's annual 2007 - bit like a wedding cake, big cake on bottom with medium cake in middle and little cake on top all covered in gooey chocolate icing.