Old fashioned cream canoes and traditional French eclairs are simple to make with Norpro's Cream Canoe Pan. Featuring durable heavy gauge construction, the pan has 8 elongated cups that are the perfect shape for baking eclairs or cream filled sponge cakes - homemade Twinkies, anyone? The pan's nonstick coating provides easy release for all your creations, no scraping required. A bonus 9-piece decorating set and recipes are included.
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Product Details
Product Length:
15.0 inches
Product Width:
10.0 inches
Product Height:
1.5 inches
Product Weight:
2.0 pounds
Package Length:
15.8 inches
Package Width:
9.4 inches
Package Height:
2.5 inches
Package Weight:
1.7 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
based on 32 reviews
Features
8 sponge cakes or eclairs each measuring 4.5 inches length , 1.75 inches width and 1.5 inches deep
Durable heavy gauge construction
Nonstick coating for easy release
Comes with bonus 9-piece decorating set and recipes.
Hand washing recommended
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25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
This is great fun Dec 23, 2007
By Rosiel This is a fun pan to have. A recipe for the usual cake makes about 16 twinkies. I didn't bother with the decorator, but used a freezer bag with the coupler and a 1/4 inch round tip to fill the twinkies. Serving twinkies that taste good, and are the shape of the old standby is just fun for all ages. Plus, you can freeze the ones you don't want right now, serve them later, and it doesn't look like part of a cake. The favorite is red velvet cake with the cooked red velvet icing, but you only need half a recipe of icing for a 2 layer cake.
24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
pan is great - decorating set, not so much May 08, 2009
By Chandra L. Wong The pan is great. Many ideas for recipes came with the pan, but only one actual recipe for a cake and 2 recipes for fillings were included. I got my recipes online. All the recipes i found made 16 cakes - which is two batches. If you're going to make these all the time and want the 16 cakes to be uniformly perfect, you need to buy two pans. The "twinkies" are made with a sponge cake batter. My first batch turned out perfectly. But, since I had to wait for the first batch to cook (20ish minutes) before I could make the second batch, the leavening agents went to work before the second batch even got into the pan. The second batch was still good (my husband and 6-year old son didn't mind one bit) but they were certainly not perfect like the first batch.
DO NOT buy this set for the decorating kit. The long injector tip is useful for filling the cakes, but the whole decorating set it made of low grade plastic that I worried about breaking with each use. The tip end of the syringe reservoir is conical, but the plunger is flat so you can not get the last 2 Tbs of filling out. I crumpled up plastic wrap and put it in the tube to force out as much filling as possible. It worked reasonably well, but was messy when I was finished!
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Fun and Effective Novelty Pan! Works for Gluten-Free Baking, Too! Jan 04, 2009
By Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci I'd had my eye on this "cream canoe" pan for quite a while, so I was delighted to receive it as a Christmas gift from my husband. I wasn't disappointed; this nonstick baking pan bakes nice 4-inch Twinkie-style mini-cakes in 15 minutes (remember, don't overfill the pan!). The box includes a kit with several plastic decorator tips, including a long cylindrical tip for injecting your cakes with cream filling. The kit also features a small sheet of paper with recipes for chocolate "canoe" cakes (using store-bought chocolate cake mix) and cream filling.
We've been baking a lot of gluten-free treats in our household since I've been diagnosed with gluten sensitivity, so I was particularly eager to use the Norpro Cream Canoe pan for making a gluten-free version of our beloved Twinkies and cupcakes. We got excellent results using our vanilla sponge cake recipe from Annelise G. Roberts's GLUTEN-FREE BAKING CLASSICS (also available on Amazon.com, BTW). Before that, I tried to make chocolate "Twinkies" for a family gathering, but our tender chocolate fudge cake recipe wasn't up to it: the injector all but tore the delicate cakes apart. Since they still tasted good, we used frosting and the filling recipe to "glue" the cakes back together. The cream-filled cupcakes and "mini-eclairs," as our relatives called the Twinkie-oids, were a hit! :-) So give the Norpro Cream Canoe Pan a try, whatever your dietary needs may be!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Cream Canoe Pan Jun 05, 2009
By Marilyn C. Martin
"Marilyn"
No buyers remorse here. I made the recipes that come with the pan. The "best ever cream filling" is really good. I've made the recipe twice now and have experimented with when it's best to take the little cakes out. About a 10 minute cooling period helps. Even spraying a little vegatable spray helps. They've also came out pretty good without the spray, but there was zero breakage with the spray. I'm looking forward to trying different recipes. I put them in the freezer and take out as needed. They're a lot easier to freeze, store and pack then a frosted piece of cake. So fun and easy to make, plus they taste great!!!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
VEGAN TWINKIES®! Feb 21, 2011
By Kelly Garbato
"Marchpane!"
After coming across a recipe for vegan Twinkies® online, I knew I had to get my hands on a DIY Twinkie® kit. Hostess makes its own "official" Twinkie® bake set which, while totally cute and retro and nostalgia-inducing, is both expensive and hard to find online. Also, the kit includes all sorts of items that I don't have any use for: in addition to the canoe pan and icing injector (which purportedly is a useless piece of junk), there's a rubber spatula (I have several already!), Twinkie® carrying case (these babies won't get any further than my kitchen counter!), and recipe booklet (not vegan, no thanks!). Luckily, generic versions of the set - such as this canoe pan and decorating kit from Norpro - are easy to find online.
The Norpro set comes with the two tools essential to making vegan Twinkies®: a canoe pan and icing injector. Though I've only used it once, the canoe pan is heavy-duty and looks as though it will hold up over time. My only complaint is that the set only comes with one eight-cavity pan - whereas every recipe I've found online produces 16 Twinkies®! Unless you buy a second pan, you either have to bake the batch in two halves or make cupcakes using the extra batter. (Which is just as delicious, don't get me wrong - but it's not really the same now, is it?)
As for the injector: it's constructed of plastic and is a little on the cheap side, but once I got a feel for it, it proved easy enough to use. I found that the cream goes in much more readily if I poke holes into the Twinkies® beforehand (using chopsticks, sideways at three points). Still, you'll have to stop to refill the injector several times, and the apparatus is difficult to put back together with greasy hands (the cap sort of snaps onto the tube, but the connection isn't especially secure). If you own a conventional cake decorating set - i.e., a pastry bag with tips - you may be better off using that instead. The injector set included in this kit comes with nine pieces: eight tips and the injector itself.
All in all, I'm happy with the purchase - but not too keen on buying a whole 'nother set, just for the extra pan.
Next up: vegan corn dogs!
(I've been vegan since the mid-aughts and allergic to milk my entire life, so I've never partaken in the store-bought, dairy-laden confections. Some local vegan bakeries make their own versions - Golden Girls, holla! - but these tend to be pricey and hard to find. Being able to make my own desserts and candies is a real coup. Score: Team Vegan!)
based on 32 reviews
This is great fun Dec 23, 2007
By Rosiel
Cream Canoe Pan Jun 05, 2009
By Marilyn C. Martin
"Marilyn"
