This homemade cake release (also known as cake goop) makes prepping your cake tins so much quicker and easier! A definite must have if you bake a lot of cakes 🙂
What is cake release made out of?
Cake release is basically equal parts flour, oil and butter (or shortening). What most people do is either use baking paper to line their cake tins, or grease and flour them. With cake release, if you prepare a batch beforehand and keep it handy in a container, you’ve got an easy 1 step method to greasing your cake tins ready to go!
Best of all, it’s super reliable and your cakes come out perfect every time. The last thing you want is a broken cake after struggling to get it out of the cake pan!
How do you use it?
How do you store it?
Homemade Cake Release
Print Pin VideoIMPORTANT: For accuracy, I would recommend using the gram measurements provided, as those are the exact quantities I use. Cup measurements are given as estimates (based on US cup measurements) to make it easier for those who do not have a scale.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (250 ml) unflavoured vegetable oil - I use canola, but any is fine
- 1 cup (240 g) butter - shortening works too
- 1 cup (120 g) flour - regular all purpose
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients into a bowl and mix together with a hand mixer or stand mixer on a medium speed until the mixture is smooth.
- Using a pastry/basting brush, generously coat your cake pan with the cake release.
- Place the leftover cake release in an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for future use (see note 1).
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information are estimates only as they are automatically calculated by a third party application. Actual values may differ based on brands and types of products used.
59 Comments
Do you have a recipe for a smaller batch? I don’t bake cakes often so just need a little bit of this.
Hi Susan! 🙂
With the ratio being 1:1:1 for each ingredient, you can easily amend it to however much you need, e.g. if you use 1 tbsp of flour, then use 1 tbsp of butter and 1 tbsp of unflavored vegetable oil 🙂
Hope that helps!
Will this work for homemade pumpkin bread.? I usually rub shortening n flour my pans. N oddly sometime the bread sticks on the pan still when i take out of pans
Hi Monica! 🙂 Yes it should work for pumpkin bread too, although whenever using loaf pans I always like to put an extra sheet of parchment paper across the long edge of the pan with some of the parchment hanging over the edges like in my pumpkin bread recipe – just makes it easier to take the loaf out 🙂
Can I use coconut oil instead of shortening or butter?
Hi Eleisa! 🙂 I haven’t tried that myself, but it may work fine! Just keep in mind coconut oil will add additional flavor to the cake release so may slightly impact the taste of the edges of whatever you’re baking 🙂
What about using a 12inch cake pan how much ingredients
Wooowww! I’m so glad I’ve found “you”!!!
One question, please: can I use gee, instead of butter?
Thank you so much!
Hi Miriam! 🙂 So glad you’re loving the content 😀
I think for cake release ghee should be fine, but for cake batter I would recommend sticking to regular butter 🙂
Hi Maryam, if you use cake release to line your pans, do you still need to use parchment paper ….at the bottom at least? or does it work fine without it?
OK thank you
Hi Indira! 🙂 For most of my recipes I only use cake release, though there are some recipes where I do recommend lining the bottom of the pan too because the batter is more prone to sticking (I will state it in the recipe card if I feel its required). Either way, if you don’t mind taking the time to line the bottoms, then its always a good reason to do so just incase! I am just too lazy sometimes haha 🙂
How long do you put in the oven for?
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Can’t wait to try it 😍, thank you. How long can I keep it in the fridge.
Hi Sibongile! It should keep well in the fridge for a few weeks 🙂
Hope it works well for you!
I made mine with GF flour, oil and shortening – dairy and gluten free so I can use for all recipes.
Great idea Sue! 🙂
Can I use self-rising flour if that’s all I have?
Hi Margaret! 🙂 Hmmm good question – I haven’t tried this myself so I’m not 100% certain, but my best guess would be that it should be fine since it’s only a small amount thats used to coat the edges. Maybe make a small batch to try and see how it goes 🙂 would love to hear any feedback you have if you decide to try it out!