How do you line an odd shaped cake tin?!?

[sparkymummy]

Am about to cook a cake in a tin shaped like the number one for my sons first birthday. It has no base and I need to line it but haven't a clue! Anyone cooked a number cake before who can tell me how to do it, eg do I need to line the sides?

Cant you just put the tin on the greaseproof paper and draw round the outside? Or do you mean you want to line the sides?

Brushing with melted butter and sprinkling with flour works too.

I'm ok with the base, its just whether I need to do the sides, and if so how!

I would line the sides if I were you. If you mean the tin has no base (you need to put it on a baking tray to stop the mix flooding out the bottom type thing) then cut a strip of greaseprooof the same depth as the cake, and stick to the sides with marg, overlap slightly when you use next strip, and crease well into the corners iyswim

you will need to do it in stages.
base out of one piece and then cut a strip to do the sides ,you can snip the edges of the strip to go under the base if that makes sense.

grease and flour the sides. Beacsue ther's no base, you should be able to ease the cake out.

Put it on a sheet of greaseproof & cut out a shape

Then put it on a sheet of greaseproof

Then cut strips about 1.5 cms taller than the tin sides - snip along one side every .73cm/1cm or so

Line the edges pushing the snipped bit flat

Put the cut out bit on top

Grease with butter & flour the sides like sauerkraut said.

this is a square tin but the principle is the same

Thanks PandaG, so sit it on a sheet of greaseproof on a baking tray then line the sides, you are an angel!

if it has a base, do the above, but you can snip all the way along the bottom a small amount ie 1 cm up every cm, in order for this bit to bend onto the base of the tin. Line sides first, and then line the base, covering the 'frill' bit, which then means the whole cake is lined.

It doesn't have a base

sorry didn't see it had no base, how odd!

I know, my friend lent it to me and said she just sat it on a baking tray, I guess if it had a base it would be to hard to get the cake out with all the corners, iyswim

I'd make a madeira cake , they are firmer than an ordinary sponge and turn out better. Also, let it sit in the tin for a few mins before you try to turn it out.

Thanks so much everyone, off to get cooking!!!

Put the tin on a tray then line with strong foil and brush liberally with melted butter, followed by dusting of flour. If you don't put the foil in the mix pours out of the bottom, and if you have enough butter it stops the mix going into creases in the foil. Turn the finished cake out onto a chopping board, take off the tin, peel off the foil then turn back onto whatever you are displaying it/icing it on.