Two sandwich or one deep help!

[scarfdemon]

Help me bakers! I'm making a chocolate cake for my dd's birthday and the recipe says put it in a deep 20cm pan then cut into two layers. I've got one deep 17cm one and two 20cm pans. Will it matter if I bake in 2 sandwich pans? Supposed to bake for 30-40 mins at 180. What would i reduce too?

I would split into two shallow, pull temp down to 160 and check after maybe 25 mins I think? Give it a poke and see how it looks at that point.

I have a chocolate cake that I do at 140 for 30 mins so the temperature is a guess to stop it drying out.

Yes I think it's better in two pans because with one deep one, the middle takes ages to cook while the edges are drying out.

Having said that I did a deep cake the other day and although it was in the oven about 50 min (gas oven), it was still lovely& moist.

Thank you! The recipe is pretty much identical in quantities to how I do a Victoria sponge, just swapping 60g of flour for cocoa so I'll go with what I bake them for. Usually I'm not that fussy but cooking for others outside of family puts the pressure on!

You can always have a trial run. I'm happy to test it for you!