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Birthday Cake sizes

Hello!

I'm just about to make a birthday cake for my daughter. All my recipe books call for a 20cm cake tin. I want to use a 23cm tin so how do I up the recipe?

Help??

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  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    Use the larger cake tin and have a slightly less tall cake!
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  • Thanks for your reply but what I needed to know was how to up the recipe i.e. is it 1 egg and 50g flour more that is needed.
    Don't really want a flatter cake, just one that fits the tin!

    Thanks.
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    Baking's more like chemistry than most cooking so just adding extra is a bit harder - you'd need to increase the amount of everything by 115% and that's going to make the egg amount almost impossible to deal with. If your recipe has 2 eggs I'd add another egg and increase everything by half, and use the excess cake mix to make fairy cakes separately.
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