One of my favorite things to do as a child was to help my mom make shaped cakes (rockets, numbers, animals, etc) out of regular cake pans. I loved the puzzle aspect, the challenge of using every piece of cake, the final result that looked nothing like what we started with. While there are obviously countless combinations of cake pans one could use to form a six and a zero, I used an 8” square pan (used once) and an 8” angelfood cake pan (used twice), putting about five cups of batter, or one…
