No baking parchment - substitute?

[Cupasoup76]

Hi,

About to make a cake and have discovered I have no baking parchment to line the tin! No chance of going to the shop just for that so is there anything else I can use? I have foil but that’s it. Thanks

Maybe greasing and flouring it really well would do? Foil would probably be fine also.

If you butter the cake tin and then dust the side with flour you won't need to use baking parchment.

Cover the tin in butter & a fine layer of flour & hope for the best

Grease the tin well and but some flour in and tap it round the tin until all the butter/oil/marg you've used is lightly coated with the flour. Tip out any excess.

Put not but

Chances are that the cake will stick to foil.

yeah, you don't want to use foil

Thanks for the speedy responses everyone, I’ll go with butter then flour

Americans rarely even use parchment when baking a cake. The parchment leaves a weird crinkly edge. Just do the butter flour trick - it's brilliant.

Butter and flour worked brilliantly, thanks everyone

Have you got a photo of your cake please OP?

Can also recommend Wilton Cake Release for the future - obviously no use to you right now but when I was baking lots of cakes I always had a bottle and cakes would just pop right out. Brilliant stuff.

DO NOT use foil. I can't remember what it was I cooked, but it didn't cook at the bottom.

In the future - or for anyone else reading this later on - you can also get some brown paper (from a paper bag, for instance) and grease it all over with butter. You have to use brown paper because it's sturdier. Make sure the paper is completely greased.
I used that once when making a christmas cake, which cooks for a long time so really needs the paper.

Ha ha, sorry **Wowfudge - it’s been devoured and I only just saw this. It was Nigella’s Nutella cake with mini eggs on top instead of hazelnuts. I highly recommend!