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READY, SET, BAKE: Not only can you bake one of those delicious ring cakes in this Wilton cake pan, you can make monkey bread, baked macaroni and cheese and even roast a chicken. Who knew?

cast-iron skillet (think, a 15-inch Lodge skillet) and what I called the single-serving frying pan, which was most often a 5- to 8-inch wide frying pan with some kind of mystery nonstick coating.