It used to be that you could find all of the shaped cake pans that you wanted at the corner store.  Long gone are those days, my friends!  After the 1980's the popularity of baking fell sharply.  It became much more fashionable to buy bland and tacky cakes from the grocery store.  Nowadays there are new TV shows that are making the haute couture once again, but the pans are still hard to find.  This problem gets compounded when there is a specific pan that you're looking for.  Luckily, the internet has opened a world of possibilities for buying these pans.  You can find the retired cake pans on eBay, all of the new cake pans on Amazon, or a combination of these options on tons of dedicated sites all around the web.

As you are probably aware, the process of creating a cake can be an art form. Sure, there is a recipe to follow (although not strictly prescriptive) when baking to ensure the final product tastes good. However, the aesthetics or presentation of the cake is largely up to the imagination of the cook. Having said that, coming up the idea is one thing and being able to implement it is another.

In the old days, the only available cake tins were round cake tins and square cake tins so you can’t get really express much creativity in the physical aspects. If you wanted to have more intricate designs, the task becomes exceedingly difficult. Nowadays, this is no longer the case. With the various novelty cake tins available, you can expand yourself to different creations. For example, you can get animal shaped cake tins, heart shaped cake tins, guitar shaped cake tins, football shaped cake tins and even three dimensional cake tins in a form of cottages from your favorite fairy tale.