Different cake tin qualities take precedence depending on the type of pudding, cake, flan or desert that is being cooked.

For flans, Silverwood's range of loose based dishes may appeal to many chefs. These cake tins do not require cooks to blind bake pastry crusts either.

The manufacturer also attempts to cater for all needs, offering deep fluted, continental, crimped rim sponge insert and raised base cake tins. Silverwood also offers novelty heart and flower shaped cake tins, ranging from 12cm to 23cm in diameter.

For bakers requiring deeper cake tins, Silverwood offers a range of loose and solid based options. These range from 5in to 12in cake pans, to more specialised deep and loose based sandwich pans, ranging from 7in x 2.15in to larger 9in x 1.5in sandwich tins.

Alternatively, the 8in and 9in round cake pans from Chicago Metallic may suit some chefs better.

The lips on both of these bakeware items are reinforced with a steel rod, which provides additional strength and warp resistance.

Regular bakers may prefer these cake tins because of their use of a double coil coated llaflon non-stick coating, which the manufacturer claims is ten times tougher than ordinary non-stick coatings, as determined by laboratory scrub tests.