Charlie Cat Original Mini Cat Shaped Cake Molds (4 Pack, Silicone) - Cup cakes, chocolate, Jello - Great For Parties, Holidays - Unique Baking Gifts for Cat Lovers, Cupcake Lovers Baking

These work amazingly well. The detail in the cake is excellent. They unmold easily, yet are designed well and sturdy enough such that they are NOT all flopsy and a pain to handle. I always appreciate when companies add the extra bracers on the bottom to make them more stable.The only problem I've found is how to add the frosting to the baked cake without losing the cute details. One thing I've tried that kind of works is to unmold the baked and cooled cake, freeze the cake (and wash the mold), add soft buttercream to the mold and squish the frozen cake back into the buttercream in the mold, freeze entire thing, then unmold when completely frozen. It still takes a gentle hand so that you don't break off the buttercream ears or nose. You can also do this to salvage any previously broken cake pieces.Here's a picture, but it is before all decorations were completed.

Baking is a hobby for me, and so far-the Charlie Cat Cake Mold is super fun to experiment with!I baked the cakes the night before I decorated them, and although the molds come with a thicker cake recipe, I just used the Pillsbury Purely Simple boxed cake mix, which is preservative free, and yields a thicker batter. I did find that I almost had to fill the molds to the top-there really wasn't that much spillage. I placed the filled molds on a cookie sheet. One boxed mix made 6 cats.I used a chocolate mix, and I made a swiss meringue buttercream to fill the cats after coring them out with a paring knife. I sliced a 'plug' off the bottom of the cake to keep the filling in and create a solid cake bottom for the base.Then, I made a ganache, (just melted chocolate and cream-I found a tutorial on youtube) and then I poured it over the cakes. I used a silicone basting brush because my ganache was thick-but it was a happy accident-because the brush strokes look like fur. I set them in the fridge to harden up a bit, and then had fun decorating them. Sliced almonds for the ears, green cookie decorations for the eyes, cookie frosting (the kind that hardens when it dries) for the whites of the eyes, and flattened sour patch kids candy for the nose.I made drizzled caramel whiskers (I found a spun sugar tutorial on youtube) and just kind of stuck everything on with the cookie icing.Overall, this effect is like a Hostess Cupcake, but in cat form! Next, I'd like to try making a coconut cat, or a carrot cake cat.Anyhow, Thanks Charlie Cat ppl! This was really fun.It would be great for a kids party, or as a gift for your favorite cat lady.

A really cute addition to the shaped pan collection. I tried it out with the recipe that was emailed after I ordered (what a nice touch Charlie Cat folks! Also after filling the molds there was enough left for a small plain layer). You might want to give the molds a tap on the counter before baking to make sure the thick batter settles in each mold properly.I didn't frost them as the cake itself was very sweet. For unmolding, I let them cool a bit on the counter while still in the molds then popped the molds into the freezer for a bit. They came out like a charm. (I'd used baking spray and a dusting of flour before making).As I said these are very cute and I can see making a pumpkin face cake for Halloween out of the extra batter/layer mentioned above and have a couple dark chocolate kitties surrounding it. Perhaps for Thanksgiving we'll make a "turkey tail" to decorate the kitties, perhaps fondant Santa hats for Christmas. The ideas for Charlie Cat are limitless! ^_^.

These molds look great; they're a good size and stand up well when full of batter. However, I find it very difficult to get a cat out of the molds in one piece. Usually, they are sadly beheaded. I spray the dickens out of the molds before I fill them, and once in a while a complete cat pops out, but usually I have to either re-attach the head with toothpicks or settle for a cupcake that tastes fine but doesn't look much like anything at all. When using complex molds I sometimes fill them with gelatin instead of cake batter (use about half the recommended amount water so it'll be firm), but I haven't tried that with the kitties yet. Since the cat molds are rather deep, I also seem to have trouble getting the batter to actually cook all the way through. I've had the experience of my cat cupcakes having dried, over-cooked exteriors and gooey interiors. So, much like real cats. these molds are very cute and a good idea, but can be quite challenging.

Just made my first Cat Cake. I used the recipe given on the Charlie Cat site. The mixing instructions were a little confusing. If you have not bake a cake from scratch, don’t follow the instructions. The recipe made all 4 cats filled to the top (which cutting off the excess made them easy to level) & 8 normal size cupcakes.The cake is delicious. I’ll post later after I have the. Decorated.

I’m gonna actually give this company the benefit of the doubt that either I got some molds that were not made right or something. I bake a lot and make a bunch of specialty cakes and so I had someone want some cat cakes so I got these thinking it would be easy to just bake and then frost. Definitely not the case, and I partly blame myself for following the directions that come with the molds which I never do but for some reason I did and that was not a smart move. These are probably great with other projects or like really hard unbreakable cake maybe. I’m sure they would have looked nice if they worked.