Can I bake a cake in a mixing bowl?

**Little Birdie** · 07-31-2007, 04:24 PM

Daughter is having a Harry Potter themed birthday party on Sunday. I'm thinking of making a Snitch cake. (For those of you who haven't read the series, the Snitch is a golden ball used in the game of Quidditch.) Unlike Molly Weasley, I can't make one that is completely round and use my wand to make it hover out to the table.

However, I have a stainless steel mixing bowl that is pretty close to a hemisphere. Will I wreck the bowl? The oven? Both? Clearly the cooking time will be very different.

Any other ideas?

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**Brat** · 07-31-2007, 04:28 PM

I have baked cakes in my bowels...i did turn my oven down to 325 and baked it until I could run a knife into it and it came out clean..don't know just time...be careful not to over fill the bowel with cake mix because i have done that and caught the oven on fire when it came out over the top

**Dancing Lotus** · 07-31-2007, 04:31 PM

if you had two bowls you could split the batter between the two and that would cut down the bakeing time, and make a rounder ball.

To answer the question, yes you can. Anthing that is oven safe will be fine.

**sdrjeolsen** · 07-31-2007, 05:29 PM

yes, I'd lower the temp and bake it longer if it is much thicker than a normal cake would be to make sure it gets done in the center.

**subyu62** · 07-31-2007, 10:17 PM

you can check out pudding bowl akes online. i have some older pyrex ovenware that is rounded and works great too.

i just heard dollar tree has harry potter trading cards... they'd be great favors.

hth
sue