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Holiday Baking: Turkey Pan from Williams-Sonoma

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Every year Williams-Sonoma teams up with NordicWare to create an exclusive holiday cake pan, and the result is generally a showstopper of a cake. This year's edition: the Turkey Pan. Doesn't he look like a wily old bird? What a great centerpiece, and maybe even a good turkey alternative for a vegetarian Thanksgiving!

$35 at Williams-Sonoma. Click through for a picture of the cake pan itself.

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Cookware & Tools, Holidays - Thanksgiving

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My grandmother has been using a bunny cake pan for years; I think this'd make a great Christmas present for her!

posted by Jim of ChewOnThat on 2007-10-17 11:39:50
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I'd love to use it as a tofu- or bean-loaf mold, then serve it as a vegan offering at a T-day dinner.

My inner snark wonders how many vegans would be offended, though.

posted by quercus on 2007-10-17 12:16:10
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I'm not a vegan, I'm just a vegetarian--but I wouldn't be offended.

Careful with that snark; they breed, you know, and they're harder to get rid of than bedbugs.

posted by kuroneko on 2007-10-17 12:48:53
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now i'm dying to know what the previous editions were.

posted by ung on 2007-10-17 12:59:36
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I have a $25 gift card for W&S that my boyfriend and I got for our housewarming last year.

25 bucks doesn't get you much, but I might just have to use it for this, as I am hosting Thanksgiving for the first time this year!

posted by kari-anne on 2007-10-17 13:04:31
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As a vegan, I would find it amusing. As long as it's delicious!

posted by gretchenkjer on 2007-10-17 14:10:58
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Kuroneko, you're absolutely right, but baby snarklettes are adorable.

posted by quercus on 2007-10-17 21:34:30
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So vegetarians eat cake instead of meat? Sign me up.

posted by mamacita on 2007-10-18 00:30:47
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Has anyone used a cake pan like this before (not a turkey, but something else that's tall and has two basically vertical components)? I'm wondering how hard it is to keep the two turkey halves from falling to the side. Maybe some small dowels would help?

posted by pearlgirl on 2007-10-18 10:36:25
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You're supposed to be able to just put icing between the two halves but in a non-molded situation where I constructed a bunny from cake rounds toothpicks were required. Maybe if you have really substantial frosting it would work out----being Williams-Sonoma there is probably a special recipe in the packaging.

posted by sally599 on 2007-10-18 17:04:12
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I have almost all of the Williams-Sonoma molded cake pans, and they all come with a recipe for the cake and the frosting. The cake halves will stick together if you use a thick slather of frosting and let it harden up. However, it tends to take away from the attractiveness of the cake because it doesn't look seamless. I prefer to use a thinner layer of icing (so it doesn't show much, if at all, between the halves) and a few toothpicks to hold things in place.

Also, for whatever it's worth, I always try the recipe included with the pan first, and I have yet to try one that I didn't enjoy (and I can be picky).

posted by Dulcedo on 2007-10-19 02:55:23
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