Wilton 3-D Rubber Ducky Pan

 (22 customer reviews)

Great quality mold, but a couple of quirks. First, make sure you use a very dense cake mix, such as a pound cake. Second, bake longer than the 50 minutes suggested. My first one looked done on the top, but the bottom was still underbaked. Think I baked mine a total of 65 minutes for the second successful try. Suggest making a test cake before doing one under a time constraint.

I used this pan with a dense scratch vanilla pound cake. It was a great consistency for stability.
A few notes though;
1. Do not poke through tester hole for done-ness unless you have to. This made my cake fall and loose some of its fluffy.
2. Cook for a while after you think it is done. I ended up cooking for about 70min.
3. Do listen and used the proper amount of batter. (I didn't use cake release, I used shortening and flour - no problems)
4. Do trim the excess around the seam - it will crack. Also shave the bottom for better balance.
5. If using the Wilton frosting recipe included, make a double batch and separate your white reserve immediately. *Wilton Tint is amazing*
6. Frost your beak FIRST. It is easier to fix if you use your dark color first than the other way around. (yes, I learned this through trial and error...)

I used dark purple jelly beans for eyes - they turned out well.

I used the Wilton decorating press gun...Read more

The pan itself is pretty well made, it fits together nicely but to make the pans fit together, one side is slightly smaller than the other, even after the cake was iced this was still somewhat noticable to me but no one else seemed to notice.
This pan wasn't too hard to use, just fill the one side with cakemix from a full box then carefully put the top on and tie together with cooking twine (I found around the neck and back end of the duck works well). You do have to make sure to coat the pan well and using the Wilton cake release (but not too much, it will cause the cake to break apart) helps get the duck out easily. I had read some other reviews that said pound cake was necessary, I made this twice with a regular butter flavored cake mix and it came out fine.

For anyone who is wondering (mainly if you've never done something like this before), you will definately need cooking twine and a cookie sheet for this cake, Wilton cake release is nice to have, though you can...Read more