How to scale down a cake recipe to do a test for a wedding?

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ettiketti · 28/04/2012 07:17

It's this one and my tin is 20cm. I'm being blonde I know! I also want to cover in fondant....

Thanks in anticipation!

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Intrum · 28/04/2012 07:21

The area of the 20 cm tin is just under half of the area of the 30 cm tin, so I would just half the recipe.

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ettiketti · 28/04/2012 07:37

Thank you :):)

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ettiketti · 07/05/2012 12:48

Bumping this to ask how long you would bake it for - one hour so far and the middle has sunk disasterously already :( GUTTED, not the cheapest cake to make :(

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wem · 07/05/2012 16:06

How did it turn out? It mentions not opening it before 2 hours in case it sinks, so it sounds like it's a recipe that's prone to it. Hopefully it will still taste good, and you can put it down to an expensive necessary test run.

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ettiketti · 12/05/2012 18:05

rubbish! Had no idea how long to bake for so opened to check after an hour - and it sank before my eyes but tasted DIVINE!!!!!! I will have another go :)

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