Have got a 4 oven AGA and I need to bake two cakes (1 x 2 litre and 1 x 0.5 litre) for a duck shaped cake for DD2's 1st birthday this weekend. I am using a maderia cake recipe. The recipe says to cook the cakes for an hour at 160 C in a convenetional oven.
My questions are...
- Which oven do I use and whereabouts in that oven?
- Surely the 0.5 litre cake won't take an hour?
- Is it OK to open the doors midway through and do the skewer test?
- (Not aga related) - Will the cake still be fresh for Saturday if I make it tonight? If not how best to keep it fresh bearing in mind I dont have a tin big enough for the 2 litre cake.