How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

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Number Cakes have been trending throughout the industry for the last few years and have become very popular in recent years. They are great for birthday’s, anniversary’s as well as graduations.

In this blog, we will discuss how to make a number cake without using a special number pan. We will be creating the number 4. 

For this order, I baked the cake in two 10 X 10- inch square pans, if you want your number 4 to be larger I suggest using a quarter sheet pan which is 9×13 inch or half sheet 13 X 18 inch. Since the client didn’t want a big cake. The 10X10 square pan was the perfect size.   

If you need a cake or frosting recipe, please use our chocolate or vanilla cake recipe. If you are short for time you can also use a box cake.

As you guys, already know I am a bake from scratch kind of lady, I used my vanilla cake recipe for this project. You will need two batches of the vanilla cake recipe for each pan.   

Bake the cake as instructed, remove from the cake pan and be sure to chill the cake in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or in the freezer for a 1 hour before cutting. This will make it easier for you to cut the cake with less crumbs.  

Since I am layering my cake for added height, I first filled the middle with buttercream and lightly crumb coated the cake before cutting.   

Using a serrated knife, cut the cake into three even strips  

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

Leave the center strip whole and cut the two remaining strips into segments 

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

Assemble the cake pieces on the board to form the number 4.  

The remaining pieces you can use to make cake pops or give your family. I know mines loves to eat the scraps.  

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan.

We hope you find these instructions to be easy and useful, this was a very simple cake to cut out and can be done for any number.

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

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How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

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Here is an Easy Number Cake template sheet I found on Pinterest by Cakeulater, this guide shows you how to make every number from 0 to 9.   

Number Cake template sheet

How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

Number Cake template sheet

We would love to see the number cakes you make, feel free to leave a comment as we love hearing from our readers.

Until next time, Happy Caking!!  

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2 thoughts on “How to make a Number Cake Without A Pan

    1. Aww, thank you so much for your kind words, so happy your number cake came out perfect and the tips were so helpful. I love hearing feedback like this!! Thank you for sharing 🙂

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