🧁 A small cake 🥒 A round squash 🥧 A baking pan

pattypan

9.0

A small shallow baking pan used to make individual tarts or cakes

noun
/ˈpætiˌpæn/

: molde

The recipe called for the use of a pattypan to shape the small cakes.

Examples

She baked a delicious tart in a pattypan.
After baking, he removed the tarts from the pattypan and let them cool.
She placed the batter into each pattypan before sliding the tray into the hot oven.
The chef used multiple pattypans for the dessert.
For dessert, I baked individual tarts in my favorite pattypan mold.
She prepared a delicious cake using a small pattypan that is perfect for single servings.
The chef used a pattypan to create beautifully shaped patties for the appetizers.

Synonyms

patty-pan

vspattypan

9.8

A shallow baking dish for making small pies

has identical meaning but is spelled without a hyphen

cake mold

vspattypan

2.2

A shaped pan used for baking cakes so they take that shape

is smaller and shallow for single tarts or small pastries rather than whole desserts

Compounds

pattypan squash

7.7

A small round summer vegetable with a flat shape and wavy edges often pale green, white, or yellow

How Big

baking tray

1 2.3

cake tin

1 1.0

pattypan

9.0

Surface Forms

pattypan singular

pattypans plural

Morphology

pattypan = patty + pan (transparent) = patty + pan

Direct compound referring to a small pan used for making patties or individual tarts, which is a straightforward composition of the two words.

Etymology

Pattypan names the small pan or mold used for single cakes and patties, and it is literally patty ('small cake') + pan ('cooking pan'). So a pattypan is the little baking pan that gives small tarts their shape.