Specialty Bakeware
The bakes you cannot buy in shops
Some things are simply better made at home, and a few can hardly be bought at all: a warm crumpet off the griddle, a dozen mini cheesecakes with clean, unbroken sides, a baked doughnut that is not a fried one. This range exists for those bakes — the specific tins that turn a recipe you have always fancied trying into something you actually make on a Sunday.
Everything here is built to the same standard as the rest of our range: heavy-gauge carbon steel that heats evenly and holds its shape, PFOA-free non-stick coatings that release cleanly, and a 10-year guarantee on every piece.
What lives in this range
The mini cheesecake pans are the quiet stars — 12 cups with individual push-up loose bases, so each cheesecake lifts out intact with professional straight sides. The crumpet rings are the exception to almost every rule in our catalogue: made in England by Dayes Ltd, a set of rings for proper griddle crumpets — and they double as egg-poaching rings for the full English. The donut pans bake six ring doughnuts at a time — baked rather than fried, ready for glazing, and a reliable way to fill a kitchen with children on a wet weekend. The fluted mini cake tins make six individual ring cakes with a shape that does half the decorating for you — the fluting hides minor imperfections in the sponge, which is good news if your bakes taste better than they pose.
Worth knowing
Mini cheesecakes release best after an overnight chill — push up from the base and they come away clean. Crumpet batter wants a well-greased ring and patience on a medium griddle. Baked doughnuts are a batter, not a dough, so they mix in one bowl in 10 minutes.
Every tin in this range is the kind of small, specific tool that gets used far more than you would predict — because once the tin is in the drawer, the bake stops being a special occasion.
