Please will someone who knows about cake baking...

[constancereader]

Tell me how on earth I am supposed to line a cake tin in the shape of a 1 with baking paper? The woman in the shop told me to do this, I would probably have just greased the tin. I also need to know what kind of cake mixture to put into it. It is quite a small tin.

I wouldn't line it

I would put the cake in straight away and then chavvel it out with a knife till it was all in bits

then I would rearrange it into roughly the shape of a one and cover it up with lots of icing

hope this helps

use tin as a stencil

Ok Im a professional cake decorator so will try to help.
Grease the tine first then line it, it helps it to stick.
If you can put the number 1 tin inside a bigger tine, this can help protect the sides of the cake from scorching.
as for cake mixture its up to you-a really simple sponge mix is
6oz flour (sr), 6oz Butter, 6oz caster sugar and 3 eggs. add the flavouring you want like lemon or vanilla. that mix can just be scaled up as you need it.

oh i guess sponge mixture

or banana cake one

or bake a cake in a loaf tin and then shape it after baking

Lay paper flat, put tin on top, trace round tin with pencil, cut out then put in tin. It doesn't matter that the lining doesn't go up the sides of tin. The lining will hopefully give a nice flat surface to ice.

I would just grease and flour the tin.

Thanks - you guys are fast

Off to try now.

to line the tin - draw round the base of the tin and cut out shape slightly inside the line so it fits inside the base. to line the sides just cut a long strip, and cut 1cm snips along ythe long edge 1 cm apart, this will help it fit to the base. grease the cake tin, then put the sides round, pressing the snipped bit into the base, then put the base layer over the top, so there is no gap between sides and base iyswim? harder to describe than do!