lining a cake tin

[muslimah28]

hi

this may be a silly question...

but when a recipe says line a cake tin, does it mean the sides as well??

i can redeem myself from asking a possibly silly question by the fact that i found two recipes for carrot cake and the recipe for a square carrot cake had very precise instructions on how to make sure you line the sides of the tin too. so i was wondering if you do the same with a round tin? i just have with my round carrot cake, and the cake is in the oven, but i can't decide, well, erm, if it looks silly or not.

and if you don't need to do the sides is there a reason why the square cake tin is any different??

For a shallow tin such as a sandwich tin, about half an inch deep, no, for a deeper tin, yes. I cut a strip about half an inch wider than the height of the tin, fold the excess over than cut it at quarter inch intervals to make a fringe. If you need several to go round the tin, overlap them and put a dot of marge to hold them. I put that in, then draw around the base of the tin to get the right size for the base. This goes on top of the fringe.

thanks, this is really helpful and now i don't feel so silly! cake was yummy btw :)

I only bother if it is going to be a sticky sort of a cake and/or I am using one of my older tins. For my nice modern non-stick ones, a good coating of cake release (ina bottle from lakeland) or a good greasing, is fine. Trial and error, I guess!

ah thats interesting about the sticky cakes. Will check out the lakeland thung when im next in town, i love lakeland!!