Flexipan

The brand name of nonstick flexible pans and molds made of glass fabric impregnated and covered with food-grade silicone. Flexipans are used both for baking and for molding cold or frozen desserts (they can withstand a temperature range of (-40° to 500°F/-40° to 260°C). Each pan is made from a single sheet of material with multiple indentations (like a muffin tin). The pans fit on top of standard-size half and full sheet pans. The shapes and sizes of the molds are extremely varied, from tiny molds to bake cakes for petits fours up to large sizes for individual dessert servings. Shapes include half-spheres, squares, rectangles, pyramids, ovals, and many others. Flexipans are also made in shapes for baking traditional madeleines, ladyfingers, individual brioche, individual savarins, and muffins. Flexipan molds for baking standard sizes of sponge layers, tarts and tart shells, gugelhupf, tube cakes, loaf cakes, and bundt cakes are also available. Like silicone baking mats (Silpats), Flexipans have a permanent nonstick surface, so they never require coating with butter and flour or lining with baking paper. They also have the advantage of producing baked goods with a completely uniform appearance. Flexipans are manufactured in France by the Demarle Company, which was founded in the 1960s by Dr. Guy Demarle. The Silpat baking sheet was introduced in 1982 and Flexipans were first produced in the 1990s. Both Silpats and Flexipans conform to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, are NSF certified, and kosher certified.