Light fruit cake/Tea loaf recipe for 12in cake??

lucasmum

Hi,
I am making a 12in sq light fruit cake to be marzipaned and iced for next weekend. I regularly use a tea loaf recipe from this board which is wonderful but I was wondering if anybody had successfully converted the loaf recipe into a larger cake. If not does anybody have a recipe for a light fruit cake but not too light!
I am worried about the cooking time as as a tea loaf it takes an hour.
Thanks in advance, you are all always so helpful

zippychick

We do have a fruit cake thread with loads of recipes.

I have no clue how much mixture you would need but here is the long winded way I would work it out for myself.:p

I would take the loaf tin i use for the fruit loaf and fill it with water to the point where the fruit loaf wet mix goes in. I would pour that water into the new baking tin and see how it compares and do some crazy made up calculation in my head, and then just guess everything else. I would roughly upscale the recipe using my crazy water method and guess the cooking time - knowing it's anhour for the loaf, so using more mix means it will take longer..... I would purely be guessing and that is honestly what i would do....:D:rotfl: I would then cross my fingers and hope for the best.

We have a scaling cake recipes up and down thread which probably has a much more sensible answer for you:D

Ill merge this later
Zip