Cake baking in an AGA - HELP!!!

[Pennies]

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...

1. Which oven do I use and whereabouts in that oven?
   
   
2. Surely the 0.5 litre cake won't take an hour?
   
   
3. Is it OK to open the doors midway through and do the skewer test?
   
   
4. (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.

[DingdongMegaLegsonhigh]

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[PrincessPeaHead]

so that would be yes, a ham is a good thing to have at xmas? excellent.

Now, your thoughts on vasectomy please. Is marmalade also involved in the megalegs household?

[PrincessPeaHead]

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[WonderCod]

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[DingdongMegaLegsonhigh]

My bosom was briefly ample but is sadly no more.

[kate2019]

AGA oven advice please! I have made a wedding cake - rich fruit - from an AGA cookbook recipe. The book says bake 10-12 hours in the lower oven. However I doubled the recipe (12" tin) and 12 hours later it is not cooked. Do I leave it for another 10-12 hours or will it be ruined?

[bilbodog]

We need to know if you have a traditional aga which is on all the time or an electric one with ovens that can be turned on and off?

Meanwhile the baking oven is the one underneath the roasting oven.

Look at the aga website for more info and there is also a facebook group called ‘i love my aga’ which is really helpful.

You can also boom yourself in for cookery demonstrations at a local aga shop which will show you how versatile agas are and i think there are probably some vudeos in line as well.

Good luck.

[kate2019]

It's an old AGA (1948), two door, converted to gas and running all the time