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Loaf tin size help please.

Mrs_Bones · 2009-01-01 12:29:12

Most of my recipes for cakes are for 7 - 8 inch cake tins round or square but I want to start making some in loaf tins to give as presents. What size loaf tins would I need to use for a cake mixture, 1lb or 2lb? I'm not sure how to judge what size loaf tin I want with the different cake recipes. Most of them will be sponge…

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t33 Posts: 170 Forumite

18 February 2018 at 4:27PM

Just to let you know. I bought the loaf tin as mentioned above which is sold as a 2lb loaf tin. It's dimensions are larger and it turns out it is 15-20% more volume that the older ones I have that overspill but I think were sold also as 2lb loaf tins.

So problem solved for me and lesson learned that 2lb loaf tins come in a variety of seemingly random sizes and capacities, annoying, who would have thought ...

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