Springform

A cake tin with a latch: cheesecakes and tortes that leave the pan without breaking.

Also called springform pan, Springform · From Germany and Central Europe

A latched springform pan with a baked cheesecake, a bowl of cherries, and a linen cloth.

The journey

German and Central European bakers needed a pan that would let go. The springform's latch and removable base made Käsekuchen and Sachertorte cousins possible in a home oven. The word traveled with the tin.

A regular cake pan can bake the same batter. Unmolding a cheesecake without a latch is a prayer.

A 1740 map of the German lands — the bakers who still unlatch a cake from its tin. — Johann Baptist Homann, map of the Holy Roman Empire (1740) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

Butter and crumb the sides. Wrap the outside in foil if the recipe sits in a water bath. Release only when cool.

The German volume's cakes assume this tin. Eastern European coffee tables know it too.

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