Help - trying to make big birthday cake

[Ka1978]

Hi

I'm making my son's birthday cake - He wants a chocolate cake and it needs to be big so I found a recipe and conversion table to make a 12 inch round choc Madeira cake. BUT it hasn't risen evenly or enough for me to splice it across inmhalf, and it has got a really hard crust.

I now think I need to go smaller so it cooks more evenly, and have 1 10inch tin. Does anyone have a fool proof recipe for a chocolate cake with amounts / timings for a 10 inch tin, that ell allow me to slice it in half?

Thanks in advance!

1 egg, 2oz of everything else is my mum's cake that never fails

so 5 eggs, 10 of caster, SR flour, butter (I use Flora though) + tsp of baking powder - substitute 2/3 oz of flour for cocoa

remember your cakes will only rise the height of the tin so if you're using inch high sandwich tins that is how the cake will rise - I would use a proper deep sided cake tin and make two rather than slice them in half

and the crust means your oven is too hot - turn it down 20 degrees

and re timings - I think 20 mins then check how it's rising and stick a knife in to see if it comes out clean

I cook sponges on about 180 fan