Wilton Sports Ball Pan Set

Comment: This is 6 inches in diameter and creates a perfect sphere. Both halves actually balance on their own metal rings, but be sure you reduce your baking time and temperature - it consistently takes me more than 1 hour to thoroughly bake a cake with this ball pan. The metal doesn't feel heavy duty so I expect to see more scratches down the line. I doubt it'll change how the pan performs though.

I haven't found a need to use both halves, but the pan has been useful in shaping cakes made to look like a turtle, a large igloo, Tiffany lamp shade, and UFO cake.

Just like the mini ball pan, you have to generously grease this otherwise sticking will be a huge problem.

Comment: My friend makes cakes so I purchased the Sports Ball Pan for her to make my 6 year old son a Bakugan cake (Little round transforming toys)for his birthday party. The cake turned out great! It looked exactly like a Bakugan. She said the pan was easy to use. The only negative thing is it is smaller than it looks on line. My friend made a sheet cake and put the round cake on top of it so there would be enough cake for all the guests.

Comment: I bought this sports ball pan set to make a Saturn cake for an Astronomy class. When I received it, I was surprised at how small it was. Although it uses a whole cake mix, it will not feed a class of 25 students. I ended up buying the Wilton Soccer Ball Cake pan which was twice the size and it made a nice Saturn. I used the small sports ball pan set to make a moon of Saturn and the class loved both cakes!

Comment: The Wilton Sports Ball Pan Set was very easy to use and the golf ball cake I made turned our very nice. I am well pleased with this purchase!

Comment: I made this cake for my daughter's birthday. The middle of the cakes took much longer to cook than the directions indicated. It did make 2 nice half circles though for show (which was all I really wanted). I did cut into one after the party and I don't think it was completely cooked. Maybe I used too much batter? Still, it was perfect size and shape for what I needed.