Abstract: A baking pan that includes a base having an interior surface including an interior center top surface and an interior peripheral bottom surface and a sidewall terminating at a top edge in a formed lip and transitioning at a bottom edge into the base. The sidewall has an interior sidewall span at the top edge. At least a portion of the base interior surface slopes upwardly from the interior peripheral bottom surface to the interior center top surface. The base interior surface does not slope downwardly from the interior peripheral bottom surface to interior center top surface. A vertical distance between the interior center top surface and the interior peripheral bottom surface does not exceed 10 percent of the interior sidewall span.