Does (Lakelands') cake release spray actually work?

[Snowstorm]

My mother got some strange 3D star type cake tin as a free gift from Lakeland on her last order and is going to give it to me as she has no use for it. There is absolutely NO WAY that you'd be able to line the odd looking thing so cake release would be the only option.

Does it work though? Does it end up leaving a sheen/taste to the cake?

TIA as always.

It really does work, and doesn't leave a trace

I got a leaflet offering that with my catalogue. It's put me off ordering!

I think it says you could use it as a jelly mould too, if that helps

It's really weird looking isn't it?! I thought it could be iced to looking like some futuristic mountain with white icing and sparkles on it and then maybe find some weird looking white/blue pixie type figures or some such thing to put on top, for DD2's birthday cake.

Or green icing and it could be a weird looking green mountain ... with a few quirky animal figures on top.

Or ... nope ... I think that was about it actually.

No wonder they're giving it away - what a weird design!

Thanks for letting me know CMOTdibbler.

I don't have the Lakeland cake release spray but I have a similar product from our local cake decorating shop and it's fantastic. I use it for loads of stuff - shaped sponges for birthday cakes but also for things like flapjacks. No residue, no flavour.

As for the tin, didn't Nigella do some sort of uniced vanilla cake in a tin that was both fancy and schmancy?

Nigella's Spruced Up Vanilla Cake

I don't seem to be able to do a link but ... take a look at this weird looking thing:

www.lakeland.co.uk/lakeland-mini-star-cakepan/F/keyword/star+cake+tin/product/13547

Un usual heh?!

Try this

My mum gave me the liquid cake release which you 'paint' on with pastry brush when she gave me a lakeland butterfly and ladybird tin (prob just as intricate design).

It is effective, though i reckon it firms and 'browns' or crispens the cake surface ever so slightly.

I did notice though that it contains GM soya and sone chemicaly sounding ingrediants which made me to be putting on my homemade organic ingrediants cakes

My DD had the butterfly and ladybird cake for her birthday and it is really good.

Thank you Fab.....! That's the one. Unusual isn't it?!

Must be inept because I tried following MN's instructions but couldn't get it to work ... or maybe it would have worked if I'd actually posted the message as opposed to just looking at it in drafts ....

www.lakeland.co.uk/lakeland-mini-star-cakepan/F/keyword/star+cake+tin/product/13547

I DID IT ....... I DID IT ........... WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!

How did you then change the link name to 'Try this' Fab.... ???

It does works a treat - I used it on a spherical cake and it came out really easily.

I agree with littleducks, though, that it does crispen the surface - wasn't an issue on the aforementioned cake as it was slathered in icing but when I used it on a standard sponge it was a bit odd. So it's no substitute for greaseproof paper if you're just using a normal cake tin, I reckon.

Also it doesn't have a terribly long shelf-life and I don't make that many intricate cakes. Mine expires in August so if anyone would like it FFP let me know. Tis a Wilton one rather than Lakelands one though.

SNowstorm you type then place the link, type what you want to say, like Here then

link name

Hmmmm might need to save that for another day while I relish the excitement of having worked out how to do a link (after 6'ish years of being on here)!!

Thanks though!

anyone else got any recommendations for cake tin spray?