11-19-2009, 04:08 PM
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W-S Snowy Village Cakelet Pan
Look at what I saw today at Williams-Sonoma:
Link here: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/produ...7C0&cm_src=SCH
Very cute! Each house holds 1 cup of batter, so it's like making jumbo muffins. Anyone have this (yet)? 
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11-19-2009, 04:40 PM
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I am so tempted! I have a gift certificate to W-S, but I also have so many novelty cake pans that I seldom use. The trees are not included.
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11-19-2009, 05:02 PM
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oooooooooo, I want it, but I just can't justify the price. 
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11-19-2009, 05:06 PM
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oooooooooo, I want it, but I just can't justify the price. |
I want it too but I'll wait until it goes on sale after Christmas.
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11-19-2009, 08:31 PM
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I hear ya. If I'm going to spend that much on a cake pan, it's going to be more than a one-hit wonder. Very cute if it goes 50% off, though (but I'd still find it hard to spend $18 on an Xmas pan, at least this year). The various NordicWare Bundt pans used to be about $24, didn't they? Now they're all $36. And I use my various Bundts (they're all pretty old by now) all year long. I was just surprised that no one had posted about this W-S pan yet; usually, when a really cute pan comes out, someone puts it up on the boards. I think with the economy the way it is, we're all going "oh, that's nice," and moving on.
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12-02-2009, 10:19 AM
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Ok, bumping this up because I can't stop thinking about this pan. 
I want to buy it and make several for gifts which is how I'm justifying the price. 
Does anyone have any experience with these type of decorative pans? Do they turn out as cute as they look like they would??? I guess my biggest fear is spending all this money on the pan and then the end result being a disaster. Or maybe I am just looking for someone to talk me out of buying it .
Anyone?
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12-02-2009, 10:24 AM
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The trees are not included.
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I am really sorry I opened this thread! I am not doing my annual cookie gift platters or cookie swap this year. I changed jobs and now no one knows to expect cookies so I took that as a good excuse.
But this pan is adorable. Does it really not come with the trees though? How would you make the trees?
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12-02-2009, 10:34 AM
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I was thinking I'd go see the pan in the store and decide if I had to have it. Like you, I'm thinking that making gifts or a centerpiece for the dessert table might help justify the pan.
I do think the cakes would need some decoration, but not on the scale of gingerbread houses -- more like the wreaths and such -- you could make life saver wreaths and decorate with red sprinkles to glue on to them and things like that -- if the scale is right. Hard to tell from a photo.
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12-02-2009, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Gracie
I am really sorry I opened this thread! I am not doing my annual cookie gift platters or cookie swap this year. I changed jobs and now no one knows to expect cookies so I took that as a good excuse.
But this pan is adorable. Does it really not come with the trees though? How would you make the trees? |
Welcome to the dark side!!! LOL 
I was thinking of piping icing on Styrofoam cones of various sizes to make the trees. I also thought of using sugar cones (ice cream cones with the point) depending upon how big the buildings are to use something edible.
I have thought WAAAAAYYYYYYY too much about this pan!
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12-02-2009, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Beth
I was thinking I'd go see the pan in the store and decide if I had to have it. Like you, I'm thinking that making gifts or a centerpiece for the dessert table might help justify the pan.
I do think the cakes would need some decoration, but not on the scale of gingerbread houses -- more like the wreaths and such -- you could make life saver wreaths and decorate with red sprinkles to glue on to them and things like that -- if the scale is right. Hard to tell from a photo.
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The closest store is an hour and a half away for me. If you go and see it in person, can you let us know your thoughts? I would be interested to hear what you think.
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12-02-2009, 11:07 AM
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The closest store is an hour and a half away for me. If you go and see it in person, can you let us know your thoughts? I would be interested to hear what you think.
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I have to head out in about an hour for a couple of errands and have to pickup a book tomorrow. I will try to sneak in a visit on one of those trips and let you know.
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12-02-2009, 11:22 AM
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I was thinking of piping icing on Styrofoam cones of various sizes to make the trees. I also thought of using sugar cones (ice cream cones with the point) depending upon how big the buildings are to use something edible.
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Yep; green royal icing on sugar cones. Or green royal icing on the Wilton plastic tree formers, which is what I did for one of my kids' birthday cakes. I still have the trees; you can reuse them for years. In a cake, you can float the tree on a super-long pretzel rod for a tree trunk & to keep it above the icing.
Oddly, this pan isn't in the current W-S catalog. I'm surprised they're not heavily promoting it. The gal at the store tried to sell me a $10 container of "peppermint snow" to go with it when I looked at (& didn't buy) the pan. Ummm, you mean that's different from the snow I'd get by putting a bunch of cheap-o Walmart peppermints into the Cuisinart?  
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12-02-2009, 12:35 PM
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Yeah -- it satisfies the same need as the $18 salt for brining.
You can also do trees on paper cones. My favorite birthday cakes growing up were the ones my grandmother got me from a bakery that id the doll with the skirt cake and a winter scene with deer and cone trees on a wintery pink and white cake. The trees were on paper cones -- like snow cone or water cooler cups, but you could make them with parchment too.
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12-02-2009, 08:19 PM
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" Nothing evokes the warmth of the holidays like an image of snow-covered cottages decorated with winter greenery. Our holiday pan makes it easy to create this nostalgic scene. The pan turns out six miniature cakes shaped like quaint cottages detailed with unique architectural features. Lined up in a row or arranged in a circle, the cakelets are ready for a snowy dusting of confectioners’ sugar. The cast-aluminum pan is highly durable and distributes heat evenly for perfect results. Cakes release easily and cleanup is a snap, thanks to a superior nonstick finish. The pan is made in the USA by Nordic Ware, a family-owned company famous for its fine bakeware since 1946. Recipe included. Hand-wash. 6-cup cap., 12 1/4” diam. X 2 3/4" high."
This from the W-S ad - I saw the pan and the little cottages are individual. That would make them easier to decorate. They really are cute. I'm tempted because I have a W-S gift certificate and the cottages could be used on other occasions.
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12-02-2009, 08:54 PM
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My sister gave me a SLT gift card last year and another for hosting Thanksgiving this year. If I had been carrying a WS gift card instead, I would have bought the pan today. (I was also saved/spoiled by the fact that my son called and told me he was finished with his lesson early).
The cottages are smaller than I was picturing, but that is not a bad thing when it comes to serving or eating. They are closer to a cupcake size (large muffin perhaps) while the mini bundts I have are really a bit too large. It will make them a bit more tedious to decorate. I don't think a life saver wreath would work -- it would be too large for most places you might use one. I think you will be looking at icing and sprinkles for the most part. They will not make a large presence for a table decoration (notice they are arranged on a cake stand). Of course, you can bake more than 6 and design whatever setting you and your space desire.
I think I need to tell my sister it's time to go to WS for a while -- they have 3 or 4 pans I want now.
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12-02-2009, 09:22 PM
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If you bought this one, along iwth the train set one, you could really make a little village with a train going through it
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12-02-2009, 10:43 PM
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If you bought this one, along iwth the train set one, you could really make a little village with a train going through it |
Oh, great! Now I'm trying to talk myself out of the need for both of them!
Thanks, Beth. I'm glad to hear how the pan is in person. I'm thinking I'm going to have to order it now....
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12-02-2009, 11:17 PM
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The train pan was right by the cottages pan -- the scale does not work. I had the same thought until I looked at them together. The train cars are as tall as the roofs on the houses, if not taller. You only need to decide which one to get -- for now.
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12-03-2009, 07:27 AM
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Well, you could set a cake stand on top of a round platter. Put the train on the platter and the village on the cake stand.
Just saying...
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12-03-2009, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Beth
The train pan was right by the cottages pan -- the scale does not work. I had the same thought until I looked at them together. The train cars are as tall as the roofs on the houses, if not taller. You only need to decide which one to get -- for now. |
Jumping into my "enabler" role . . .
The scale might not necessarily be a problem. All of my porcelain Dickens villages are horribly out of scale; the people are nearly half as tall as some of the buildings and would have to bend way over to get through their own doors. Yet it works. You should get both.
< ducking and giggling >
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