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    Assuming it would be the same in MA...I've seen them in party stores--
    the ones that carry everthing from paper plates to plastic champagne
    glasses to any size of foil pan you can imagine.  Also, check the
    yellow pages to see if there's a cake decorating supplier in your area
    (esp. Wilton's).
    
    Nancy

    
    
    Party Time on West Hollis St. carrys special cake pans.
    
    bonnie

    
    re .2 
    
    Party Time is in Nashua

Ben Franklin Craft on Rt101A in Milford (I think) in the Lorden Shopping plaza
has a variety of cake decorating tools as well as flavoring and the frosting
themselves.

Good Luck,

    The BEST place of know of for baking pans, cake decorating supplies,
    etc. is Eaton's School of Cake Decorating on the 28 Bypass in Hooksett.
    
    They carry just about everything, and I also believe they will order
    anything you want if they don't carry it.  Call them.  Their number is
    603-627-1808.
    
    

    
    	There is a Ben Franklin's in Derry, next to the Burger King on
    	Rt102 near Rt93 Exit 4.
    
    	bob

    If you don't want to buy the pan, I have a book that shows how to make
    animal shaped cakes by cutting them. It is the "old" Angelflake coconut
    book - you know around Easter time you always see the Easter bunny cake
    made from 2 round cake pans - same thing. 
    
    I guess it depends upon the lifespan of the pan. Let me know if you are
    interested because I'll either try to enter in the description or I'll
    fax you a copy of it (I'm in England so interoffice mail could take
    a couple weeks).
    
    Andrea 

    Kitchens, etc has some of those pans and once upon a time That
    Kitchen Place -- currently at Post Road Plaza in Merrimack -- had
    some for rent.
    
    ed

    Here are the addresses of the 2 books for cut-up cakes.
    
    Party Cut-up Cakes (the easier book)
    Box 5034 
    Kankakee, Illinoise
    60901
    
    	It says send 25 cents with your name and address. The copyright or 
    publication date is 1970 so who knows if 25 cents is enough or still 
    required.
    
    CUT-UPS!!
    BOX 6050
    Kankakee, Illinois
    60901
    
    	It says send 35 cents with your name and address. This book is the
    more detailed cut-ups. The copyright or publication date is 1970 also so
    who knows if 35 cents is enough or still required.
    
    General Foods Corporation  (HQ address for Baker's and Angle Flake)
    250 North Street
    White Plains, NY
    10602
    
    Hope this helps.
    
    Andrea

  I need to find a watermelon-shaped cake baking pan, ie, an oval pan the shape
  of a watermelon cut in half. 

  I'm making an ice cream bombe using the pan if I can find one.  I've seen
  these in several magazines and cookbooks, but cannot locate a store with them
  around here.  I'll go anywhere in the Nashua-Worcester-Newton triangle to
  find one (need it for a party this weekend).

  I've tried Kitchen Etc, Williams-Sonoma, and several party goods stores.  The
  closest thing I could get to it was a football-shaped pan which wouldn't work
  for me.  I've seen the pans with neat watermelon ridges in multiple
  publications, so they must be out there somewhere.  At this point I'd even
  settle for just a regular large oval pan or bowl, could be plastic too (will
  only be frozen).

  Any ideas?

  -Erik

    There is place called Evie's Cake  (508-842-3749) in Shrewsbury on Rt
    140. They have an excellent selection. Give them a call.
    
                        Alice

    
    	No luck...  :-(
    

	The Cheese Shop(pe) in Concord, MA, has an oval-shaped glass
	baking dish.  There are two sizes - one is about 12" long and
	the other is about 10 and 1/2" long.  Both are around 8" wide,
	according to the saleswoman.  Their number is 508-369-5778,
	if you're interested.

	Diane

    
    	Great, thanks!!

    	Last night I called every cake decorating supply source in the NH,
    	Boston, Worcester, Framingham and Lowell yellow pages. Not one had
    	seen this type of cake pan. One older woman said that they used to
    	make them two decades ago, but that's the last time she had seen
    	one. Most carry the Wilton product line, and several claimed to
    	have the largest collection of pans in New England. :-)

    	Perhaps this bombe mold used by the California Culinary Institute
    	and the other places all came from old personal collections then.

	The oval-glass baking dish should work fine too. Last night, in
    	desperation after the phone calls, I discovered a longish bowl
    	that's part of a salad spinner that might work in a pinch too,
    	if I make two batches, fill the bowl, cut the result in half,
    	and slide them end-to-end together. Still won't have those neat
    	ridges on the sides which makes part of the presentation but it
    	might still come out well in the end anyway. The oval-glass dish
    	sounds better too, no having the cut the result in half.

    	-Erik