Charlie Cat Original Mini Cat Shaped Cake Molds (4 Pack, Silicone) - Cup cakes, chocolate, Jello - Great For Parties, Holidays - Unique Baking Gifts for Cat Lovers, Cupcake Lovers Baking

These work amazingly well. The detail in the cake is excellent. They unmold easily, yet are designed well and sturdy enough such that they are NOT all flopsy and a pain to handle. I always appreciate when companies add the extra bracers on the bottom to make them more stable.The only problem I've found is how to add the frosting to the baked cake without losing the cute details. One thing I've tried that kind of works is to unmold the baked and cooled cake, freeze the cake (and wash the mold), add soft buttercream to the mold and squish the frozen cake back into the buttercream in the mold, freeze entire thing, then unmold when completely frozen. It still takes a gentle hand so that you don't break off the buttercream ears or nose. You can also do this to salvage any previously broken cake pieces.Here's a picture, but it is before all decorations were completed.

hard to demold as the head gets stuck but I made bath bombs with these and it went viral on business insider in 2019 for Halloween. I've had them since then and they are still pretty durable.

I filled four Charlie Cat molds with half a butter pecan cake mix prepared with 1/2 cup buttermilk, 1/4 cup canola oil, 2 large eggs, 1/4 cup ground pecans, 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and a few drops of butter extract. I prepared each mold in a different way (oiled, oiled & floured, buttered, buttered & floured) and found that simply oiling the mold, without flouring, worked best for my dense cake batter. I let the cakelets cool completely before removing but managed to behead the first cat anyway. (Tug at all the sides first to loosen and then press down on the head.) Because the cake baked up moist, I was able to stick the head back onto the body seamlessly and without using frosting.I stirred 3 tablespoons light brown sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla into 8 ounces of softened "1/3 less fat" cream cheese and served this alongside the Charlie Cats to avoid marring their perfect feline looks with my lousy frosting skills. (I may seek out a fish- or paw-shaped silicone mold to freeze the cream cheese mixture into shapes.)I am impressed with the performance of these molds and the resulting texture and appearance of the cakelets. The Charlie Cats are one of my favorite purchases, even though the price dropped by almost $5 immediately after I bought them.

I love idea of this product & am happy with it overall. I'm far too lazy & untalented to create a show-stopping masterpiece.That said, my first creation was cornbread color points. Cornbread is dense, so it worked perfectly. I believe that having a dense recipe is the key... I simply used non-stick spray & they popped right out, cooked perfectly.I ran the molds through the dishwasher to clean & verified there were no bits lets behind.I'll make some jigglers next. It's cute & fun & has the potential to go horrifyingly (tho hilariously) wrong. In which case, bring on the Halloween mummy cats!!

Baking is a hobby for me, and so far-the Charlie Cat Cake Mold is super fun to experiment with!I baked the cakes the night before I decorated them, and although the molds come with a thicker cake recipe, I just used the Pillsbury Purely Simple boxed cake mix, which is preservative free, and yields a thicker batter. I did find that I almost had to fill the molds to the top-there really wasn't that much spillage. I placed the filled molds on a cookie sheet. One boxed mix made 6 cats.I used a chocolate mix, and I made a swiss meringue buttercream to fill the cats after coring them out with a paring knife. I sliced a 'plug' off the bottom of the cake to keep the filling in and create a solid cake bottom for the base.Then, I made a ganache, (just melted chocolate and cream-I found a tutorial on youtube) and then I poured it over the cakes. I used a silicone basting brush because my ganache was thick-but it was a happy accident-because the brush strokes look like fur. I set them in the fridge to harden up a bit, and then had fun decorating them. Sliced almonds for the ears, green cookie decorations for the eyes, cookie frosting (the kind that hardens when it dries) for the whites of the eyes, and flattened sour patch kids candy for the nose.I made drizzled caramel whiskers (I found a spun sugar tutorial on youtube) and just kind of stuck everything on with the cookie icing.Overall, this effect is like a Hostess Cupcake, but in cat form! Next, I'd like to try making a coconut cat, or a carrot cake cat.Anyhow, Thanks Charlie Cat ppl! This was really fun.It would be great for a kids party, or as a gift for your favorite cat lady.

I’m gonna actually give this company the benefit of the doubt that either I got some molds that were not made right or something. I bake a lot and make a bunch of specialty cakes and so I had someone want some cat cakes so I got these thinking it would be easy to just bake and then frost. Definitely not the case, and I partly blame myself for following the directions that come with the molds which I never do but for some reason I did and that was not a smart move. These are probably great with other projects or like really hard unbreakable cake maybe. I’m sure they would have looked nice if they worked.

Found this gem though Tik-Tok and used it for my boyfriends birthday!!! I was able to make two adorable little cat cupcakes and decorate them to look like his cats! They’re a little smaller than I thought they’d be but honestly I don’t mind and it made them less intense that way! Easy to use, just grease them up real well and you shouldn’t have any issues! I will be using these all the time now :)

The finished cakes were very dense using the recipe provided. After icing and decorating, the finished cakes looked ambiguously cat-shaped, as though they were wrapped in cloth. Un-iced, they were not distinguishable as cats.