Customer Reviews

KitchenAid Silicone Square Cake Pan, Red

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This is absolutely amazing. You must try these in order to understand! No scrubbing, turns loose with the flip of the pan and bakes absolutely beautiful. I love these things! Get one in every shape and design. Watch out for the non Kitchenaid pans though. Many of the others say they are only oven safe up to 428 degree's. Kitchenaid is safe for up to 500 degree's.

This is my wonderful kitchen find of 2005 - I purchased several pieces, including this one and potholders from KitchenAid.

Imagine pans that will never rust, get scratched or bent. They cook evenly, clean up beautifully. A particular favorite are the potholders which are also great jar openers, trivets and impromptu food covers for small microwave containers.

I have baked brownies, chickens, casseroles and vegetables in this thing. All came out perfectly.

Don't think they would be broiler friendly - I still use Pyrex for that!

I did not have any problem with this silicone bakeware. It was wonderful. I followed the directions, sprayed lightly, baked, everything was absolutely perfect, and came out of the silicone bakeware like a dream (they advise that you let the food cool completely before trying to remove). Perhaps the people who had a problem getting their food out of the bakeware should review their recipes. Everything I cooked in each of my Kitchenaid silicone wares was fantastic and there was no silicone/plastic smell.

Silicone baking pans are extremely cool. Light and flexible, they store easily and don't deform even if you accidentally leave something heavy on them, and you can just peel them off your finished baked good. Since they cool down quickly, you can lift them without potholders after ~5 minutes out of the oven. Plus, I get that thrilling "the future is now" feeling whenever I use them, and sometimes I bake solely in order to be able to use the pan because it's just so cool.

Unfortunately, this pan and its sister, the 9x9 cake pan don't get clean --- whatever you bake leaves stains behind. No matter how many times I have soaked them in hot soapy water, put them in the dishwasher, or scrubbed them, there are white splotches from flour that has spilled and brown splotches from cocoa and a shiny oil film. Even with the stains, they work perfectly well, but I just try not to let my guests see them since they look somewhat questionable. Also, I would be wary of using them with foods with strong flavors like onions or garlic, so that I wouldn't end up with garlic flavored brownies in the future.

One reviewer noted that they get clean if you grease them, but I don't think that could prevent the oily film, since the problem there seems to be too much fat, not too little. It's possible that they have improved since I bought them last year, but you may want to look elsewhere to the silicone pans with shiny insides like the Roshco.

This being my first silicone cookware purchase, I suppose I still knew that not all pans would perform identically or spectacularly.

That being said, I did put some sort of confidence when I purchased KitchenAid's product rather than the 200 plus "never-heard-of" brands or infomercial brands that have recently sprouted up everywhere. Misplaced confidence, as it were. This pan has shown itself to be easily cleaned afterwards, but certainly not Non-stick by any stretch of the imagination when it comes to retrieving the baked goods. The brownie doesn't simply "pop" out unscathed. The typical layer of cake residue is left behind just the same as in a metal cake pan. So, aside from being able to squeeze it into a cabinet nook, the results I expected from a silicone cake pan just haven't, ahem...panned out.

Eventually, I will be trying another silicone pan. This time I'll look for a glossier version, and one that isn't made by KitchenAid.

We bought one to cook brownies. We have used it twice. Both times the smell in the house was like burning rubber. Very harsh. The brownies did not cook very well. They did not cook as well as they do in traditional pans. I had to give this away. I't give it zero stars if that were available since it is unusable. I also did notice that it did not clean very well, but that was the least of our problems.

I bought this a couple nights ago and have had no problems. Brownies came out great, cooked real even which actually made me kind of sad cuz I love burnt edges. :) Cleanred real easily and no weird smells that I'm aware of so I would definitely recommend purchasing this.

It's a good item for what it was made for, but not for what I bought it for.