Not overly thrilled with the silicone method of baking
579994
After trying out the silicone I am not a huge fan of it.  Seems like things get fluffier in the old metal pans.
2087290
I was excited to try out a recipe for apple cider donuts I recently found online in my new silicone mini donut  maker. (Apple cider donuts are very popular here in New England in the Fall. And I love the idea of being able to enjoy them in a healthier, baked version.) I used the batter in a baggie with the corner cut off method to fill the indentations. What a challenge! The indents are so tiny it is really difficult to fill them. I'm a very neat, precise person and an experienced cook/baker and I found it to be a very frustrating process. In fact, as I was doing this, I was thinking to myself that this was the one and only time I'd ever use this donut pan. I made a 1/2 recipe which was still too much for the donut maker to hold so I had to put the excess into some custard cups and bake giant muffins rather than all mini donuts. BUT, once baked, the mini donuts are simply adorable! (Even my husband thought so.) The donut pan is heavy duty enough to simply put it on the oven rack directly. It baked evenly and the finished donuts came out easily with gentle pushing from the underside. You do need to use hot pads to remove it from the oven as the silicone heats up quite a bit during the baking process. And the donuts need to cool 5 minutes or so before removing them. Once they cooled sufficiently, I brushed them, top and bottom, with apple cider and then tossed them in a plastic bag of cinnamon sugar. They were yummy and as cute as could be. So now I'm wondering how I can minimize the aggravation of filling all the tiny indents in order to make use of this pan. Other reviewers claimed it was easy so perhaps their batter was more liquid than mine. (It would have been nice if the product came with instructions and a couple of recipes to try.) Perhaps I'll try an actual pastry bag to see if it might give more control. I'm also thinking that perhaps I will simply buy another donut pan with somewhat larger indentations. The result won't be quite so cute, but it will probably be worth it if it is easier to use.
4137757
It DOES work, but its a pain to clean, and I don't know how to keep the dough from ripping out the small parts. Plus when the cookies cooked, most of the shapes spread out. That picture of the cookies looking well embossed is deceptive, but I'm sure its more due to my method than the product itself. Some sort of suggestive help shipped with the product would be great!
1197418
I am not a cook or a baker, so the problem coul partly be me but the chocolate didn't pour easily and the silicone gets hot. You can pour it while holding it with hand like in the picture. It worked ok for what I needed.
613105
This is NOT Silicone bakeware. It melted in the range at 325F. Also they are tiny. The whole mold fits in the palm of my hand. They are 6" x 4" outside to outside. I do not think these are even silicone. I've never seen silicone melt at 325F. I've never seen silicone melt at any oven temperature. Also when these did melt, they had a rubbery smell. They also have no markings on them like some of my other silicone baking molds have. So I don't think they are silicone at all.
2823264
I baked cupcakes with these pans for the first time today and am very unhappy with how the cupcakes stick to the pan -- a lot of the bottom stayed in the pan when I tried to remove 3 of them.  I thought perhaps I was not waiting long enough, so waited until they were completely cooled.  It was slightly better but not good enough to serve the cupcakes to guests.  I had understood the pan didn't need to be greased; I may try them once more greased and see what happens.
On the plus side, they cleaned up fairly easily despite the large amount of cake still in the cups.
4592556
Nice but you need to adjust baking time. Maybe that's common knowledge when using a pan like this...but my cakes came out a little dry when I baked them at the recommended time. I guess since the silicon doesn't really insulate the heat is more direct. But it made a really nice looking cake when it was finished.
1746604
I can't seem to get them to bake evenly. I end up making 3 layer cakes instead of 4 but that's not so bad I suppose. In the long run I'm better off just cutting my cakes in half even though it's messier.
3935395
Meeh. I was expecting a lot from this book because of David Lebovitz. However, I'm not very happy with it. I'm not a professional baker, I'm a home baker. I just enjoy baking, so I have a lot of cookbooks that I try new recipes every day. I tried 2 recipes from this book, one of them was pavlova and the other one was creme caramel. both of them didn't worked out. they were both delicious but their texture was not right. even though they tasted really good, my pavlova was so flat and my creme caramel was so liquid. After these tries, I stopped bothering with this book. Maybe it's something I did, I don't know but I never had this kind of situation before with my other cookbooks. And another thing about this book that didn't fit me was that there are really few photos. Since I'm not a pro, I'd like to see what the product should look like in the end. Some recipes have photos, some don't so it wasn't for me.
1466379
I bought this about a month ago and have only used it a couple of times, once for muffins and once for cupcakes. Both times the baking time took significantly longer than what the recipe called for, which I think it may lead to drier cupcakes. In addition, cupcakes/muffins don't brown on the sides, only on the bottoms, so I'm concerned that they might burn before they've finished cooking through. Otherwise, it's functional, stays clean, and is kind of fun. But if I buy a second muffin pan I will probably go with a metal one.
2899179
So far experimenting with bread or roll recipes, I'm not having much luck with this. I'll keep trying but not to confident I'll bother with this again. Works okay for me as a gravy thickener but I don't make much gravy. Maybe I should try this in a brownie or cookie recipe, that might work better. I use sugar substitute (Pyure) as well which to me is the bomb. Staying on keto lifestyle has it challenges, for sure - lol. If I ever figure out a decent bread dough recipe using this, I'll post it.
3488404
These simple little silicone molds aren't for popsicles, because you fill them up from the side and insert the popsicle stick into a skinny hole which can easily dribble liquid out the side if the filling is too runny. Cream-based liquid works fine, but juice requires a two-step filling process where you fill it half way, let it freeze up and over the hole, and then fill it again - too much trouble for me when there are already numerous popsicle molds on the market. However, these are a lot of fun for making ice cream bars which can be difficult to get out of traditional popsicle molds.

The downsides:

These need to be set carefully in the freezer in a perfectly level position like ice cube trays so they don't spell. The two trays don't stack gracefully either, so it does take some freezer space and a little preparation to make sure you have enough level surfaces to put them on.

The instruction booklet supposedly has some recipes that we can use for making simple ice cream bars, but unfortunately all the measurements are in grams, so for me it was just too much trouble to figure out how much milk, sugar, etc. I was supposed to use. I spent about 10 minutes googling ice cream bar recipes, but all I found were recipes for how to dress up some store-bought ice cream into ice cream bars, no recipes from scratch. So if you are relying on the little instruction booklet that comes with these bars to know what to put in the molds, make sure you are ready to deal with measurements such as "50 g of milk".

The upsides:

These molds are easy to put in the dishwasher.

They are easy to fill and put the popsicle sticks in.

It was easy to get the ice cream bars out of the molds because the molds are so flexible.

To test these out, I made homemade ice cream, and there were some portions of the ice cream that didn't quite harden up, so I poured the runny portions of my homemade ice cream into these molds and froze them overnight to make my own ice cream bars. I also tried using store-bought ice cream and putting them into the molds, then re-froze them so I could put a chocolate coating over them. Both attempts worked really well.

Overall, these worked exactly as expected and were easy to use. The one thing that I found difficult was trying to slip them into the freezer while keeping them 100% level when I filled them with liquid. But really, what you see is what you get. You can look at the picture and be pretty clear on what you're getting and how it's going to work.
248805
The pans are great; however, I am not that great of a baker.  I was looking for sheet pans that made my baking better.  These did not do the trick.
2109220
These were the first silicone ice trays I've had. I figured that it would be easier to get individual cubes out of these as compared to a plastic tray. Well, yes and no. Yes, you can twist and warp these a lot more than you can a plastic tray. But in order to get any of the ice out, you'll have to use your fingers to reach into the individual cavities to pry out each ice cube. Not exactly what I was expecting. I suppose this is common for all silicone ice trays, not just these.

Other details: someone mentioned that these smelled. When you first open the package, yes they stink (it is silicone). But after one wash this was never a problem. I use one of these to freeze coffee into cubes too cool down coffee without diluting it, and even when pouring in near-boiling liquid, I haven't experienced any flavor-tainting. For this purpose, the extra large cubes are great since they melt slower than smaller, traditional-sized cubes. Due to the flexibility of the silicone, it's very difficult to fill these up and place them in the freezer without spilling some. Again, that probably just comes with the silicone construction.
719340
The pancakes tend to stick to the silicone much more than to the metal equivalents. While these look more elegant they don't function as well.
3596335
not sure if it's a reflection of the AmazonBasics brand, or if all silicone mats are like this, but these things are awful to clean. seems like no matter how much scrubbing I do, there is still oil on them.

that said, they help me make great cookies. so, not a huge deal lol
1037926
Just shy of being better than the kroil with silicone