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hmm - I always do this. I buy something and then while I'm waiting the 4 or so weeks it takes to arrive, I read all the reviews. I just bought this and I would like to know if any of you have this and use it?

Cake In A Hat

Borrow a hat from a spectator, (or use your own) and show it to be totally empty. Explain that you'd like to show the audience how to bake a cake. Bring out all the ingredients -- eggs, milk, flour, sugar, all kinds of stuff. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, then "accidentally" drop all the ingredients into the borrowed hat! Oops. Well, no problem. Just drop a match into the hat to heat up the ingredients and hopefully turn it into a cake. Needless to say, the spectators will be a bit concerned as flames come out of the top of the hat! But, it's magic to the rescue. Say the magic words ("Betty Crocker") and -- voila -- when you turn over the hat, out comes a perfectly baked cake!
You can give the cake to the audience, or you can eat it yourself. Either way, it's a most tasteful trick!! The trick is completely mechanical, the specially designed pan does it all for you. Comes complete with everything you need, plus great routine.

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check out this thread should shed some light on it for you maybey.

The 'gimmick' arrived on saterday. I wish I'd read a bit more about this b4 i bought it - but I guess some things you learn the hard way. I really don't see myself using this at all - it just seems really obvious as to wht you're doing.

Anyone want to buy a cake in hat thingie?

I guess some things you learn the hard way

Ouch!

Perhaps if you did a review of the item, complete with your observations about the drawbacks without giving anything away, and add a link to a 'For Sale' posting you might get an offer or two. This kind of item has to appeal to somebody out there!

Good idea. I was just joking about selling it, though. I have a ton of new stuff to review - a bit busy at work now so it'll all have to wait..

I have a ton of new stuff to review

C.U.P.S. Rules - OK!

Uh-huh I have had quite a serious bout of C.U.P.S lately. Thanks to discovering Hank Lees..

The welsh rabbit pan ( that’s the proper name for what you have bought ) is a classic piece of equipment, with many uses. I have to say that I am surprised to see you say so quickly that you cant use it.
Particularly since all the information that fusions that opinion is given clearly in the description.
The trick dates way back to early Victorian times, when everyone wore hats. I assume that lines like, first borrow a hat, may well put you off, since people dont wear hats much any more,but it is just as possible with a little imagination to use this, in the same way you would bake a cake in a dove pan.

What I bought is slightly different to the welsh rarebit pan - as far as I understand it, but it uses a similar principal. The pan I bought looks quite different when it has the cake in as to when it doesn't. The rim is obviously larger. From a stage performance I could probably get away with it, but most of my shows are kid's birthday parties where the children are quite close. I suppose I wasn't that clear. It's not the effect itself that I'm disappointed with, just this particlular make of the pan - if you understand what I mean. I hope that doesn't give too much away.

I was looking for things to do with the hat that I've just bought as part of my costume, but I have decided to go with a cake routine in my dove pan instead.

tHE CAKE IN A HAT IS A NICE TRICK: performed with young children it could be a triomph . Onekidis sitting holding the hat on his head. but the hat is upside down and you use two other children as assistant 'marmitons" They have to choice ingredients to pour into the hat: The more funny are the ingredients the more happiness for the audience;
Of course one part of the pan is dropped into the hat before pouring the mess.
The distance between the hat and the audience is not important, the only thing is to watch the angles and do not permit your audience to see into the hat.
have fun and don't forget to wrap the baken cake into aluminiumfoil, because childre are afraid to eat a bare cake they think to be dirty!!

cool - sounds like fun.
The aluminum foil is a nice idea - cos it means my hat won't get too 'crumby'. Although I've found that kids will eat anything related to cake or sweets (at least my kids will). I used to do a dove pan routine where I first produced a guinae pig and then the second load was sweets which i threw into the air. The kids went crazy - it was the parents who freaked out about the sweets being where the guinae pig just was.
I stopped doing that because I didn't want to explain the working of the dove pan to the parents and I found that with kids all is fair in love and free sweets and I'd inevitably have some kid crying cos they didn't get any or got trampled in the process..

use a false guinea pig! Open its belly and exhibite a pack of sweets!