Homemade Easter cake mold

When you have nothing to bake Easter cakes in, and you don't want to go shopping, a homemade Easter cake mold will come to the rescue. The process is so simple that it won't take much time, and the necessary materials are always available at home. Below are two methods – from parchment and from foil.

What is needed for work

For both options, you will need:

• the cheapest parchment;
• good parchment with a non-stick coating;
• food foil;
• scissors, pencil, ruler;
• for the base model - a can of peas, condensed milk, or other, as well as glass jars of the desired volume (0.5 liters or 1 liter).

For the starch paste:

• a small metal container for cooking (a mug or coffee pot);
• wheat flour - 1 teaspoon;
• water - 40-50 ml.

Manufacturing sequence

1. Gather the necessary tools.

2. Also prepare everything for making the paste.

3. Start with making the food glue. To do this, mix the flour with water in a mug, ensuring there are no lumps.

4. Place the mixture over low heat and, stirring constantly, bring to a thickening, but do not boil.

5. Now you need to make the parchment base. It is not necessary to spend money on expensive paper - the most ordinary, cheaper kind will do. First measure the height of the blank, adding another 2 centimeters. Do not cut anything yet, just mark it with a pencil.

6. Wrap the can with the same paper, adding a small allowance of 2 centimeters – this will be the length of the blank. Mark it and cut this size immediately.

7. Fold the parchment at the mark indicating the height of the can.

8. Cut 2 strips.

9. On the cut piece of parchment or on a new sheet, outline the bottom by tracing its contour around the can.

10. The bottoms will be double, so cut out 4 circles for 2 molds.

11. Wrap the can with the cut strip, and apply paste to the allowance using the back of a spoon.

12. Cut the protruding paper edge above the model along the entire circumference.

13. Now fold it down to the bottom of the can.

14. Spread paste on the folded edges and place the paper bottom on top.

15. Since the bottom of the can is ribbed, it is inconvenient to smooth the parchment on it. Therefore, if you have a suitable object with a smooth lid of the same diameter (this could be a coffee grinder or any coffee can), transfer the blank to this object and smooth the glued bottom well with your hands. However, you can also try to carefully smooth the parchment on the can. Then grease it with food glue.

16. Cover the first bottom with the second circle and smooth everything well again. Remove the mold from the model and let it dry. This can be done on a radiator or in the sunshine.

17. While the parchment blanks are drying, you can make molds from foil. To do this, measure the necessary amount, placing a glass jar so that the edges of the foil on both sides are 2 centimeters higher than its height. Cut out 2 pieces of such sizes.

18. Fold the foil crosswise and place the jar in the center.

19. Wrap the jar with foil and fold the excessive height outward.

20. Alternatively, you can wrap the jar 3 times with foil directly from the roll, then cut the edge, and fold all the excess underneath, pressing tightly.

21. Carefully rotate the jars and remove them from the foil. You will get almost ready molds.

22. Now the blanks need to be finished so that nothing sticks during baking and the molds are convenient to work with. For this, inserts made of quality parchment with a non-stick coating are needed. Cut out 2 bottoms from it, previously tracing the required jar.

23. Drop the circles into the sweaty mold (you can spread paste to ensure the insert fits evenly in place).

24. Measure a strip of parchment for the walls of the mold, making a small allowance of 2 centimeters.

25. Insert this piece inside the mold. If necessary - glue it down.

26. Make the same inserts for all molds.

A mold for Easter cakes made to this size will hold the amount of dough needed for it. If the mold has a volume starting from 1 liter, then paper or foil should be taken in several layers to reinforce the mold. Thus, without spending much time and money, you can make the necessary number of Easter molds of different volumes.