This tip makes it easy.

After all that folding, youll be left with a piece of parchment that sort of resembles a necktie.

Put the tip of it in the center of the cake pan, and trim along the very edge.

Unfold the whole thing and voila: You have a parchment circle thatll fit every time.

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