cake tin

1 1.0

A metal pan people use to bake cakes

noun
/keɪk tɪn/

: molde para pasteles

Take a shallow cake tin, a deep plate, or a pie dish, and butter it.

OK that's quite low Three cake tins or it's going to be a nice high cake.

Examples

I used a square cake tin as I had gotten a really cute square black cake board (another Sweet Success purchase).

Blog text (13)
And then you put all of that into a cake tin, preferably the type of cake tin that the bottom comes out of.
I can line the cake round cake tins because you can buy those round.
You can just use a cake tin or even a coat hanger.
OK that's quite low Three cake tins or it's going to be a nice high cake.

Zoe Sugg
Get down my cake tins, Angie.

Pollyanna (1960)
I actually own the bread box you showed in the photos (it was my grandmother's), plus I have the cake tin too!

Blog text (7)
Ginger took the two cake tins off the pantry counter, dropped the letter in the mailbox outside the pub, and then went up the border road to the boreen where the blackberries grew in thick clusters, black as jet.

Fiction book (1998)
To make a delicious chocolate cake, I poured the batter into a round cake tin and placed it in the oven.
She took out the cake tin from the cupboard and prepared it for baking by greasing the sides.

Synonyms

springform pan

vscake tin

2 3.7

A round baking pan with sides that open and a latch to release cakes easily

is a metal container without removable sides, harder to release fragile items from

cake mold

vscake tin

2.2

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

is a metal container used generally, not focused on forming a specific shape

baking form

vscake tin

2.6

A pan that holds batter or dough while it bakes

is a metal container used mainly for baking sweet desserts rather than general dough

baking mold

vscake tin

2.5

A container like a pan that shapes and holds dough or batter while it bakes

is a metal container limited to baking single sweet items rather than broad goods

How Shaped

Bundt cake

7 3.2

cake tin

1 1.0

baking tray

1 2.3

Surface Forms

cake tin singular

cake tins plural

Morphology

cake + tin

The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: 'cake' (the baked item) + 'tin' (a metal container) yields a metal container for baking or holding cakes. This noun-noun compounding is a transparent, common pattern (despite dialectal variants like 'cake pan'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Cake tin is a simple compound: a metal tin used to bake and shape a cake. Imagine a metal round pan that holds the batter in the oven. That's why the phrase means 'a metal container used for baking cakes'.