i have the recipe for a 8in cake but now have to work ou the ingredients for the ten inch and six inch

[mummylin2495]

I have a lovely recipe for a wedding cake which i am making for my niece,i made it once before when my ds got married ,but have lost all my working outs !! As my title says i have to adapt the recipe for the larger and smaller cake so i end up with a total for everything ! i will post recipe when i know someone will do it for me.TIA [ and some of it is in ounces which i need to keep like that ]

I think you just need to add a quarter more of everything for the bigger and a quarter less for the smaller.

yes thats what my brain says ,but what is a quarter less of 1and half tsp of something ? i have worked out that quarter more of tbsp is .75 but my brain just wont work out the smaller quantities. I know that some of them are only small amounts but i want to have it exactly right.Actually i think i had this problem before and the more i thought it out the more mixed up i got !

TBH. If you are talking yery small quantities it should not matter too much. I never measure accurately and my cakes are always ok.
Maybe when it is one and a half teaspoons, add an extra half spoon.
Fruit cakes are a lot more forgiving.

just double your 8in tin quantities then when all mixed split it to an even level in each of your 6in and 10in tins

Divide the 1st recipe by 4 and then for the 6inch times that amount by 3 and the 10inch one by 5.

why not just double the recipe and then divide it between the 2 tins? Thus taking a quarter away from the small cake and adding it to the big one?

Make three batches of the 8 inch quantity and then fill the six inch and use the extra that is left to top up the ten.

According to Peggy Porschen you do as follows :

for 10 in double the recipe
for 6 inch halve it

why did i not think of that. Madre?
Simples! :)

Thankyou all very much .I have just seen the light ! the three tins all add up to 24 so if i just treble the 8 in recipe it should be correct ! I just dont want it to go wrong as i would feel terrible.AlwaysbeOpralFruitstome that is almost the same as what you said.once again thanks to all.

Does this help?

KatishaVinganegg that is a very handy chart,i will keep that for future reference,thanks.