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You don’t need a special holiday to do some great baking. Baking is appreciated by one and all at any time of the year. All you need is a good collection of bakeware pans in a few different shapes and styles, and you can bake any day of the week.

People are very fond of the latest trend in bakeware, and that’s silicone. This special baking tray material is very flexible. It’s so easy to pop muffins and cupcakes out of the bendable trays. It’s also very smooth and wet baking products don’t stick to it as easily as to other types of bakeware. Silicone cools faster than metal trays, but the baking time for a silicone tray might be different than for conventional or traditional bakeware.

Metal bakeware once had a short lifespan. Like cast iron pans, baking pans would start out a light metallic silver in colour but would quickly turn black as they ‘seasoned’, the more they were used. The more often metal pans were used, the more they began to stick as well. It would take a great deal of elbow grease to clean older pans and trays because if they weren’t completely cleaned, they would cause future baking projects to stick or burn.

Teflon was for awhile very popular when it came to baking and cookware. It was a special type of film that was coated over your average cookie sheets and in your cake pans so that food products wouldn’t stick. However, the older a Teflon no-stick pan got, the more likely it was that the Teflon would start to scrape off as the baked goods were scraped off or wiggled out of their trays. While there have been no blatant stories about people dieing from ingesting Teflon, it isn’t nice to use a spatula to pry cookies off a pan and notice metallic flakes stuck to the bottom of the food.

From long ago, people relied on ceramic for their baking needs. Ceramic itself is baked during its production, and usually ceramic bakeware has a special hard glaze on it that makes food less likely to stick. However, ceramic is also prone to breaking if dropped in the kitchen. Also, the porous nature of ceramics makes them eventually become sticky to baking products if they are not washed gently. Metallic scrubbers and even metal spatulas can compromise the smooth stick-free surface over time.

Bakeware can come in many shapes and styles, many of which are meant for specialty baking products. People are in love with cupcakes lately. Imagine making little miniature cakes that were shaped like cupcakes. In a pan meant for making such cakes, the bottom of the cupcake as well as the fluffy top each has its own section in the tray. They are joined together like two layers in a cake, with icing, and decorated afterwards.

Cakes, cupcakes and other baked goods can be made into many shapes. For springtime, there are little baskets with attachable baked flower contents, all in the same joined tray for ease of baking. For the harvest seasons, there are pumpkins of many sizes, some the size of cupcakes and others the size of a full cake themselves. For winter there are thousands of Christmas ideas, such as snowflakes and gift-shaped cakes. And for unique holidays there are special pans, like making hearts for cupcakes and cakes at Valentine’s Day.

It’s hard to know where to start a bakeware collection. With all the options available, consider keeping a wide variety of bakeware pans on hand to catch all holidays and special occasions, and to make something interest any day. Keep in mind when buying your bakeware what your baking needs are, so that you buy pans with the right shapes and made of the right materials for your baking style.

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